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| Dan Wallen of Bloomington, left, holds his niece, Lyla Diggs, 4, as she watches the clock strike noon during the Noon Year’s Eve countdown Thursday at the Children's Discovery Museum in Normal. |
"We're having a big New Year's Eve party with all the things moms don't approve of — candy and cookies and fudge. We'll even drop a balloon like the ball (at Times Square)," she said. "These guys think they'll make it (to midnight awake), but we'll see."
Baker also had a pretty good backup plan: Noon Year's Eve, an annual Children's Discovery Museum party that brings more than 1,000 kids and adults together to share the holiday fun 12 hours early.
For kids, this year's event on Thursday offered opportunities to assemble confetti poppers from toilet paper rolls with punched-out construction paper, like Baker did with 9-year-old Paige and 6-year-old Gage Welch; make "Happy Noon Year" headbands with pipe cleaners; get their faces painted; and participate in their own countdown, to noon, when staff set off confetti cannons on each floor.
"Parents like that this is an early activity with the kids so they can go out in the evening or just stay home and sleep," Shelly Hanover, membership and volunteer coordinator for the museum, said with a laugh. "It's become a fun tradition for a lot of families. We love seeing how the kids have grown up."
The event also continues to attract new families, including Crystal Fairfield of Danvers and her kids, 3-year-old Cassie and 1-year-old Davey. Just after the countdown finished at noon, they took to the dentistry exhibit near the clocks on the first floor
"You name it, we've done it today," Crystal said with a laugh, listing climbing towers, water tables and painting. "We would definitely come back. This was super fun."
Baker said she and the kids might return in 2016, too.
"We've got to have confetti. It's not New Year's Eve without that," she said.
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