I am not even the least bit creative. It's sad, and I don't want my kids to miss out because of me. I want to have something that I can do every year. Something they can remember.
Thanks so much!
2006-12-18 10:05:13 · 8 answers · asked by idontknow 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I too am not at all creative...my daughter is now 22 and she does remember the fun Christmas traditions we always did. We always made a paper chain to count the days till Christmas..she delighted in removing 1 of the links every night before bed.she did this thru high school..we also made cookies for Santa and had a plate and milk set out for him..and reindeer food was made from different cereals with a little oatmeal and some brown sugar. We decorated a brown lunch sack to put the food in for Santa to take outside to his reindeer. She always wrote a note to Santa and we mailed it and also drew a picture of another note thanking Santa for coming to our house..we left it by the milk and cookies.
2006-12-18 13:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by JIM D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make reindeer food: Oatmeal and glitter and spread it on the front lawn on christmas eve
Get lots of frosting and food coloring. Put the frosting in 4 bowls and add red food coloring to one, green to another, blue, and yellow. Make sugar cookies and have all different types of toppings for them to choose from. Do this one Christmas eve so they can leave some for Santa!
Collect a couple pine cones or buy some from a craft store, glue and glitter and ribbons. Have them decorate the pine cones.
Get a Gingerbread House kit and put together a gingerbread house
Hope this gave you some ideas.
2006-12-18 18:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by Kristin Pregnant with #4 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
make ginger bread houses. but easy ones. use grham crackers and frosting to make a basic square house with a slanted roof you'll need 5 or 6 grham crackers per house. use whatever typ of candy you are your children prefer. there fun i make those with the kids at teh daycare i work at during our holiday party.
listen to holiday music and bake cookies or read christmas stories.
watch the traditional christams moveis , rudolph, frosty drummer boy, and what not.
if youe live where it snows make snow angles and snowmen and take pictures. make a snow fort and have a snow ball fight.
make homemade christmas cards for your family.
hope some of these ideas help you. Good Luck
2006-12-18 20:39:54 · answer #3 · answered by ~*These Blue Eyes Tell No Lies*~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about where you live but we have a local dollar tree store, one of those stores that everything is a dollar. Anyway i went yesturday and bought 2 stockings there, they are huge stockings! Then i bought some glitter pens and let them decorate it by drawing candy canes and snowmen. If you dont like that idea let them make you some ornaments for your tree, using construction paper.
2006-12-18 18:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by Kendra M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bake sugar cookies and decorate them with sprinkles and icing, there are also Ginger bread-house kits at Costco and your grocery store. I do this wth my boys every year they are now 8 and 4 years old.
2006-12-18 18:10:00 · answer #5 · answered by luv3dbb 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try going to www.metroparent.com-They tend to have great,cheap and creative ideas in their magazine.Making cookies, to tree decorations, family ideas, and even little muppets to keep the cold air out of the house,etc
2006-12-18 23:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by RoxieC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
-Drive around looking at Christmas lights
-Decorate their stockings with fabric paint
-Make cookies
-Make home-made Christmas cards for family & friends
-Put on Christmas music and sit by the fire
-Have hot chocolate and read a Christmas book
-Make a gingerbread house
-Go caroling at a nursing home or the local hospital
-Watch "The Grinch" or another Christmas cartoon
2006-12-18 18:09:37 · answer #7 · answered by CelebrateMeHome 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
make a ginger bread house with them
2006-12-18 18:08:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋