What Christmassy things are you doing with your kids before Christmas?

[Greenbutterlfy566]

What Christmassy things are you doing with your kids before Christmas

I’ve gone too OTT I think (considering my dd is 1!) but here goes;

Breakfast with Santa at Selfridges
Christmas crafting
Christmas baking
Christmas themed soft play
Various grottos have been booked
Theatre tickets
Pantomime

Aww

Already been to a festive church service followed by turning on the village Christmas lights, lovely.

Lots of crafty/baking things - decorating cards, festive biscuits, decorating baubles, paper chains, allowing free reign with the glitter
Visiting Santa at one garden centre
Visiting real reindeer at a different garden centre.
Trip to town for Christmas market and a bit of shopping
Reindeer parade

Think that’s it. Children too young for panto/ballet and I was too late booking tickets for garden light trail and Santa steam train. All pretty much free apart from a fiver for Santa!

Saturday DP is taking them to winter wonderland, the following weekend we are ice skating, then the weekend after is burning of the clocks in town and FIL is down for the weekend so no doubt will do some more Christmassy stuff 😊

We've already done a day trip to Finnish Lapland and met the Big Man, had a husky ride and played in the snow.
Have tickets for the boy in a Dress at the RSC.
Possibly another panto.
We've got to buy and decorate the tree but not till after my birthday.
Make some gifts.
School fayre and any others we find. 😊

Anyone else ?

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Anyone else ?

Advent Spiral tradition with local Steiner group.
Baking mince pies and making marzipan fruits.
Christingle service and crib service at local church.
Reading all our Christmas books.
Walking round nearby housing estate to see the lights.
Choosing toys to give to charity shop.
Donations to local food bank and baby bank.
Going to see Father Christmas at nearby small grotto.
Going to Christmas market in town.

Mostly cheap or free things, and with an emphasis on spirituality and doing things for other people.

Frozen 2 cinema trip
Big game of bowling with family & friends
Going to see The Snowman played with live orchestra
Ice skating
Going to see lights in london and visit a grotto
Family games nights

Then nothing but relaxing on the actual Christmas days!

Gingerbread city. Kids favorite London Christmas thing

Taking DD’s to see Frozen 2
Going sledging at a local indoor ski place
Going to see a nativity in a local village
They’re going on the Polar Express with my Mum
We’re visiting a Christmas market this weekend

Thanks all

Anyone else?

Anyone got their tree yet?

@Greenbutterlfy566
No, it's dd's birthday today. Tree will go up next weekend.

Aww happy birthday to you dd

Just been to Elf training and Santa Dash.
Also going to Santa Steam train, Elf the musical, pantomime and sing along Santa.
Will fit in Frozen 2 and a bit of Christmas shopping.
At home we’ve snow sprayed the windows, made cards and wooden sleighs to be filled with chocolate for school and will do some Christmas baking- oh have made the Christmas cake together too.

Sounds good

What’s elf training?

Last weekend was the local church christmas tree festival. This weekend is the local christmas fair and making decorations. Next weekend is Father Christmas visit and buy the tree/decorate. Then the final weekend before christmas is a christmas lights display at a local village.

We’ve done the tree, making gingerbread men and seeing Frozen II.

We have planned a Santa visit at the garden centre, toddler panto and a Christmas theme afternoon tea (DD is obsessed with tea parties and cakes).

All these ideas sound great! We are not doing anything expensive as we are away for Christmas this year, which is the big treat. We always enjoy doing the tree and decorations though which I'm looking forward to this weekend, baking spiced biscuits, watching Christmas films..the simple activities I suppose! A few weeks ago we went to a National Trust house and they had the trees up in the house, in various period styles and also a trail with lots of different 'trees' made from all sorts of objects which was so beautiful. I'm not huge on crowds, so this was a perfect Christmassy thing to do

Giving her a shoebox full of strips of coloured paper and a roll of tape to make paper chains for the hall ceiling.

Making Christmas cookies together.

Going on a "girls only" shopping trip for her to buy her presents to others and have a "hot chocolate and mince pies" stop to enjoy the festive atmosphere.

Putting up the tree.

Helping her to wrap presents.

Going to carol service locally.

Have already done the "best decorated boat" competition at their last coaching session last week, there will be a new Christmas jumper needed for a Scouts event.

She doesn't want to go see Santa any more. But she does still want to do a drive around in the evening one night to see the best lit up houses.

We usually go to the cinema as a family the weekend before Christmas too, but I don't know of anything that appeals to us all this year (DH and DD have no interest in "Cats", and I can't see any others coming so far that appeal to us at all).