Traditions and Ideas for Christmas
- Choose a theme for gifts between families. For example: home storage, wall decorations, homemade, etc.
- Christmas pillowcases. Make out of Christmas fabric for everyone in the family to use during December.
- Christmas story time. Read a Christmas story s a family each night in December.
- Play a 12 days of Christmas surprise for a neighbor. For each of the 12 days, deliver a surprise, For example: Basket of fruit, loaf of bread and jam, sing carols, homemade candy, ornaments, poinsettia plant, cookies, hang their light, shovel their snow, put up their tree, invite them to dinner, a personal gift.
- Family caroling, and let each family member have some type of instrument: kazoo, harmonica, drum, bell, etc.
- Give children an ornament each ear of their own. When they get married, give them those ornaments for their tree in their home.
- Tie each child's gift with a different colored ribbon. color code each child.
- Family Nativity. Each member acts out a part while one reads the Christmas story from the bible. (Matthew 1 & 2, Luke 2)
- Make family treats and deliver them to all your neighbors.
- Christmas Elves. Exchange names with family members, then do secret acts of kindness for that person during the week. Draw new names for each week of December.
