We do Christmas craft in the week leading up to Christmas, this year we have ceramic houses/Trees/Santa (all of which can take tea lights), some embroidery motifs and perspex flat baubles & stars for Mum & I (I’m her cater too) to make faux stained glass ornaments.
All of my kids are adults btw, it’s just nice to have a chilled crafting evening once in a while (we do it for Halloween too).
From their childhood, they’d lay a plate with carrots, a mince pie & whiskey for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve of course, and I made fabric Advent Calendars many years ago (and one for my son & DIL a couple of Christmases ago), because they loved ours so much.
I’ve always done stockings on the fireplace (again, mostly homemade) which Santa fills with bath bombs, a tube of sweets, some Quality Street (if Santa remember too lol). Even my two dogs have a stocking (the cats get Dreamies, which I think is just crack for kitties).
We also do a movie night with hot chocolate & popcorn (even as adults), and we’ve done a Christmas Even cheese fondue too. That’s brilliant for an evening’s entertainment 😂).
We’ve done all of these things since the kids were small (fondue when our daughter was about 4, some was 8 at this point) and it’s become a bit of a tradition.
To be honest, anything can become a tradition. Listening to Carols at Kings, putting out a mince pie for Father Christmas, making reindeer hoof marks (but please use seeds that the birds can eat, no bloody glitter unless you forevermore want it trodden into your home). And it makes it environmentally safe! A Santa’s Grotto visit (although I was terrified as a child!), ice skating when they’re a little older, even just making cards with potato printing at this age.
Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!