Wahoo it's finally December and what better way
to celebrate than with a series of Christmas-themed posts :)
Christmas traditions, dens and homemade presents
and cards will all be blogged about in the next two weeks, so enjoy!
First up it's our Christmas traditions. Every
family has different ones and this is what we're doing this year, and hopefully
every year going forwards. They are a mixture of things that either I grew up
doing, I've heard about from other bloggers (thanks guys!) or just thought
would be nice.
Book-a-night
This is something I had never heard of before but
lots of bloggers were talking about it on twitter and I think it is a lovely
thing. The idea is you wrap up 24 books (either old or new or a mixture) and
open one a night in December. We are doing a slight variation as Doof is still
too young to properly understand about a “countdown” or 24 days etc – so
instead I have got 11 books (thank you Poundland for your awesome selection of
kids books!) which I will supplement with books we already have and will start doing it from the day we put our tree up :)
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Each kid having a mini tree
I loved having my own mini Christmas tree when I
was younger so we are going to carry on that tradition too. I’ll get a mini
tree for each of the kids and a few small decorations and they can decorate it
as much or as little as they like, adding things on during December as we make
more homemade decorations etc.
Three ornaments
I bought these beautiful handmade felt figures
from Knitty knotty crafts and each child will be given one on Christmas Eve to
hang on the tree wherever they like. Iz will obviously need a bit of help this
year…
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Exchange handmade cards on 24th
Doof and Iz are a bit young to properly do this
on their own yet but I think this is a nice idea. So we’re going to start it
this year with me just helping! Each child chooses who they want to make a card
for and then spends Christmas Eve afternoon making it. Keeps them out of
trouble while you’re doing last minute Christmas prep and someone in the family
gets a lovely card out of it :)
Watch “The Snowman” on 25th
This must be a staple in most people’s houses? I
always watched this as a child and think it is a beautifully soft and gentle
cartoon – unlike lots of others around today – and will be a welcome respite
from Peppa! So on Christmas Day afternoon we will all snuggle down on the sofa
and watch it together.
So these are our traditions :) what are yours?
Lovely traditions. We are reading a Christmas book each day (wasn't organised enough to wrap them though!) and we have personalised tree ornaments to go on the tree. Maybe we'll also snuggle up and watch the Snowman - I think though I might still have it recorded from last year :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I had the Snowman recorded on our Sky plus up til August when my husband told me not to be ridiculous and deleted it! Lol. So now I've bought it on DVD :)
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