Concord area parents didn’t have to wait until the ball dropped to celebrate the new year with their children.
The Concord Public Library held its first Noon Year’s Eve party Monday morning, a chance for parents to partake in some holiday festivities with their children hours before midnight.
Little ones had the chance to craft their own noisemakers with construction paper and straws, which they used to practice until noon. Then, equipped with indoor-safe fireworks (shiny pipe cleaners), they eagerly awaited the countdown, heralded with the sound of many lungs blowing into the horns.
For Sabrina Stanwood, a Hopkinton resident who is missing her own library since it was damaged by a fire over the summer, the event was a chance to entertain her daughter, Maddie Morse.
“It was good, because we needed to get out of the house,” she said.
After 12 p.m., guests were offered snacks and the chance to dance in the library’s Blanchard Room.
The library closed at 4:30 p.m.