At the center of the holiday season is spending time with family. Making lasting memories with your family is at the top of every to-do list during the holiday season. There are many festive activities to incorporate into your family life to make Christmas more memorable and fun for everyone. Traditional activities and innovative ideas make the holidays extra special.
Christmas Memories and Traditions
Take a few minutes to remember your own childhood and how you spent the Christmas season at home. Do some memories stand out as special in your mind? These are probably Christmas traditions that your own parents created for the family. Now is the time to create memorable Christmas traditions in your own home. Make gingerbread houses together. Decorate the Christmas cookies. Short on time but still remember the delicious smell in your mom’s kitchen at Christmas? Simmer the potpourri to create a warm aroma in your home, even if you don’t have time to bake very often.
Christmas fun in the kitchen
Maybe baking isn’t your thing. There are still plenty of fun Christmas activities to do in the kitchen. You can make all kinds of gift items in the kitchen without baking. Make pretzel sticks and chocolate covered chocolates. Pair the chocolate delights with a homemade hot chocolate mix for a Christmas gift.
Christmas music
Include music in your family’s holiday traditions. Have fun with your family singing Christmas carols and making your own holiday CD. Use the recording of your family singing Christmas carols as Christmas music every year while you decorate and enjoy the Christmas festivities. Be really crafty and dress up CD cases to make them look attractive so you can give them as gifts.
cutting the Christmas tree
A timeless tradition for many families is to cut down the Christmas tree. This activity adds a lot to the Christmas season at home. You can find Christmas tree farms almost everywhere. Ask a group of local growers for tree farm locations near you. The family shows up at the farm where mom or dad take a saw to cut down the family Christmas tree. Everyone is looking for the perfect tree for mom or dad to cut down and take home. Some farms are big and some are small. You may only need to walk a short distance to find the perfect tree or you may end up going up and down hills before the right tree appears.
More than a Christmas tree
Add dimension and fun to your Christmas tree cutting activity. Include additional family traditions in the day, such as lunch at a special place each year. You can also get Christmas candy to eat in the car on the way home with your tree. Another tradition might be to buy new ornaments together after you bring the tree home and put it in a bucket of water.
Community Christmas Fun
Traditions are also created when you participate in annual community events. Does your town decorate a Christmas tree every year? Does your neighborhood have a block where every house is decorated with hundreds of Christmas lights? Drive or walk to local Christmas festivities and make them a part of your family traditions each year. Try to walk if the weather permits so you have more time to look at the detailed Christmas decorations together.
christmas cocoa
For kids and adults alike, hot chocolate is an essential part of the holiday season. Start a family tradition of making a hot chocolate mix at the beginning of the season. Children can have a small cup of cocoa each night before bed during the month of December. As Christmas Day approaches, add special treats to the hot chocolate, like whipped cream and mini-marshmallows. Leave a cup of homemade hot chocolate for Santa on Christmas Eve.
Christmas in every room
As your kids get older, they enjoy decorating their rooms for Christmas. Add holiday cheer to every room when you encourage your children to decorate their own space. Let them do all the decorating themselves, and then take photos of them in their finished rooms. Look at the photos of each year to see how the Christmas decoration of their rooms has gone.
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