A fantastic Christmas should not mean big bills in January.
The real magic of Christmas - the stuff that makes kids' eyes light up, gave them a warm glow inside, and creates delicious memories - costs little or nothing.
Here are ten ideas for free and low cost "magic" kids will love:
1. Sing Christmas songs with your kids while cooking and cleaning all while wrapping gifts, or simply Tuck forward in time.
2. As a special treat duringDecember, serve the hot chocolate milk with a candy-cane stirrer. As your child swallows move, read aloud a favorite holiday book. Or, if the story of the Nativity is part of the celebration of your family, noted that sugar cane is shaped like a shepherd's crook. Then read or tell the story of the angel appeared to shepherds watching their flock by night.
3. Take a plate of homemade cookies to shelter the homeless or people who work the night as firefighters oremergency hospital staff. If you are celebrating the birth of Jesus, also put some food out for animals on Christmas Eve the night before in honor of the manger animals - an old Slovak custom.
4. Give each family member 10 strips of paper in holiday colors. Let everyone write or draw something they are thankful for each band. Link to tapes in a chain and hang as a decoration.
5. Make thank you cards for each other, sharing what you appreciate about each member of thefamily. Open them on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning.
6. Make snowflakes paper and displayed in a window. Here's how: draw and cut a circle of white paper (the flat bottom of a coffee can or box of oatmeal is a good size plot). Fold your circle in half. Then, bend your other half into thirds, so that you end up with a form that looks like 1 / 6 of a pie. Now cut pieces of paper here and there and straighten your masterpiece.
7. Make a simple paper chain of Adventcalendar. Cut 25 strips of paper, and numbered 1-25. Link the strips into a chain. Son, twine or ribbon, hang your chain in the middle of a door with a link # 1 below. Every day from December 1, allow children to remove the link at the bottom of the chain.
8. Go to your local library and borrow books for children on vacation. Put books in a special box or basket in your family room or living room.
9. Have a night family holiday movie at home. Get aHoliday movie from your library or rental store video and watch it together. Include bowls of popcorn if your children are past the age when the popcorn has a choke-risk.
10. Avoid post-Christmas let-down by planning an outing or a special family activity each day until the children return to school.
A Kid PURE STUFF BONUS TIP: At night, turn on your lights Christmas tree and turn off all lights in the room, including the star or other "Topper" on your tree. Now, lie downon the floor with your children and notice the cool shade on your ceiling.
(c) Norma Schmidt, LLC
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