5 Holidays Activities To Do with Your Kids
I Love Holiday Traditions and Activities
Oh I love the holidays, especially the ones in fall and yes I do mean from Halloween on. It seems like such a magical time of year. Doesn’t it? What are some of your 5 activities you do for the Holidays with your kids. The contest, for those that want to take part is part of the Dora Christmas Carol Contest. Got any special traditions?
1. Take holiday pictures. I don’t care if it is taken at a store or some picture of the family around the Christmas tree. I want something where the kids are all together and smiling and not fighting.
2. Decorating the Christmas tree. This is normally done the day after Thanksgiving, however this year the tree is already up in the living room. The only thing it is missing is decorations so we still may just keep our holiday traditions. Each year the youngest has always got to pick out the Christmas ornament for that year. This year Little A picked out Santa carrying a shotgun, I couldn’t help but laugh.
3. Making those holiday arts & Crafts that they get to hang everywhere around the house, this includes the countdown chain, toilet paper santas, candy cane reindeer, etc. Oh and never, ever forget the cookies we bake at least once a week.
4. A few days before Christmas we begin opening presents, each night the kids get to open one (only one each) gift until Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve all gifts must be opened because Santa comes that night. This began with our oldest because back then we just couldn’t wait for him to open them, well it became a tradition. This is begun on Winter Solstice.
5. The first real day is snows we must all have hot chocolate and sit in the living room together watching Christmas movies, that is after the kids get to play in the snow a bit.
6. (yes I know I past 5) Christmas Eve we must make Christmas cookies for Santa, leave a glass of milk and of course carrots for the reindeer. That night the kids will sprinkle their Reindeer food out front, but by morning it is gone.
What do you do?
