Each year we make a Christmas Chain as a family. On it we include everything we want to do as a family during December. The kids LOVE it and so do I! It keeps us feeling the Christmas spirit all month long and we don't forget to do the fun "little" things because we're too busy with the hustle and bustle. We include all the necessary items, church parties, etc. and add in our fun little things and traditions we love. We put each item on a paper Chain and take one off each day.
This year we included the following:
0. Eat pomegranates
This year we included the following:
0. Eat pomegranates
1. Wrap birthday boxes for orphans
2. Decorate house for Christmas
3. Decorate tree for Christmas
4. Shop for Sub for Santa
5. Deliver gifts for sub for santa
6. Stamp Christmas cards
7. Go to the library and pick out Christmas books
8. Drink hot chocolate with peppermint and candy canes
9. Go to dad's Christmas party
10. Church Christmas party
11. Have a indoor snowball fight with large marshmallows
12. Mail letters to grandparents
13. Have a Christmas song dance party
14. Have a family over to learn about their Christmas traditions
15. Bake Christmas goodies
16. Deliver Christmas goodies
17. Make presents and letters for teachers
18. Look at Christmas lights
19. Have a Shepherds night
20. Visit Santa at the mall
21. Buy presents for each other at the dollar store
22. Go to downtown Plymouth and see the gingerbread houses
23. Watch a Christmas movie--Try SantaPaws...seems cheesy, but so so cute. Just perfect for young kids and Christmas time. Not even bad for adults.
24. Perform the nativity and share Christmas stories
25. Christmas!!!
Here are some pictures of our marshmallow fight in our basement. Big success...in fact, we might have to do it again.
Here are some pictures of our marshmallow fight in our basement. Big success...in fact, we might have to do it again.
And our peppermint hot chocolate. We loved it with the Andes peppermint pieces.
Stamping Christmas cards. What a fiasco. Hope you got one!
These crazy boys play football every day after school. This particular day it was 22 degrees outside. They really loved the hot chocolate!
Our whole family adores eating pomegranates. Oh how I wish they weren't so messy!
Yeah for a full and fun Christmas!
5 comments:
So many fun things to do! I also love pomegranites!
I mean pomegranates!
LOVE this!!
what a fabulous tradition and great ideas for the month. Thanks for sharing - you gave me some new ones that I might have to include in the next couple of weeks (love the marshmallow/snowball fight)! Merry Christmas.
I didn't get one yet!!!!
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