Christmas CountdownĬreate the good Ol’ Christmas Linked garland Countdown with your Child using colorful construction paper, scissors, and staples. If you prefer to use a premade advent calendar filled with candy go HERE. You can purchase a beautiful wooden Advent Calendar HERE. You can also use the other Christmas tradition ideas from this post for things to put in your advent calendar. You can also have an indoor snow fight (you can play with cotton fake snow balls such as THESE), play Christmas Bingo, and Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe (for both Bingo and Tic-Tac-Toe you can use various Christmas Candy and marshmallows as your placements). Some non Candy ideas for an Advent Calendar are: play Holiday Charades, have a Christmas dance party, choose a family board game to play, have a candy cane scavenger hunt, play ring the antlers (buy reindeer antler headbands and make a ring out of pipe cleaners to throw and catch on your antlers whoever can catch the most rings wins). I recommend leaving a note naming an activity that your kids can enjoy instead of candy because it is extremely difficult to fit 3, 4, pieces of candy let alone 2 if you have more than one child. This allows you to put little treats and/or a note to let your children know what they can look forward to each day so that every day of December feels like Christmas. There are many versions of this, however, I like the Advent Calendars that have doors to open up on each of the 24 days of December before Christmas. You can purchase the elf on the shelf that we have HERE. This is a cute fun way to connect with your loved ones. My boyfriend poses him somewhere in our home before he leaves for work and I will find him when I wake up I then pose him in a different location and have my boyfriend find him when he comes home. If you don’t have little ones or your baby is still too young to participate like ours, it is still a fun game to play as a couple to bring a smile to each other’s face each day. Get creative and pose your Elf in different ways to bring humor to the game. The kids are not to touch the Elf because it will lose its magical powers, however, they are encouraged to talk to the Elf.ĭon’t forget to give your elf a name before you begin and enjoy the bright smile on your kids’ faces when they try to find the elf in your home each morning. The elf appears during Christmas time and is there to watch over the children daily and report to Santa at night. Along with the elf comes a book that tells you the story behind the elf on the shelf. The elf comes in different genders and eye colors and is adorable. Yes, it is a bit on the pricier side, and no it never goes on sale, however, the joy it will bring your family and your little ones is well worth the cost. If you haven’t heard of this little guy or girl yet, I would recommend you start this Christmas tradition with your kids this year. Get creative and have fun celebrating Christmas with your family! 1. Here I go over 20 fun Christmas ideas for Christmas Traditions with kids that include all your Favorites: Christmas lights, Christmas ornaments, Christmas recipes, making Christmas traditions with your baby special as well as married Christmas tradition ideas as you celebrate the holidays! You just started a family or you want to start some new family traditions and are unsure which ones to begin this year.
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