Christmas activities

[jojane]

I have the following activities planned for December, anyone got any others?
Going to longleat (santas train and ice skating)
Advent train arriving on doorstep
Writing letters of father Christmas
Making mince pies
Making gingerbread house
Making Xmas cards
Carol concert
Xmas shopping (take kids to pound shop and they choose come thing for everyone else)
Go and pick Xmas tree
Decorate tree
Photographing elf in various poses
Watch Xmas films
Xmas eve hamper
Take toys to charity shop
Go and see Xmas lights
Tracking Santa on NORAD
Video message from portable north pole

umm ... enjoy time relaxing together by not filling every second with schedulded activity

We do something Christmassy every day in December - lots are little things like having crackers or mince pies at tea time - it's part of our advent calendar tradition.

Write a letter to Santa
Buy Christmas trees
Decorate the Christmas tree
Play with Christmas Lego
Make Christmas cards
Write Christmas cards
Make Christmas decorations
Go to see Christmas lights
Read Christmas stories
Drink hot chocolate
Go to the Panto
Pull a cracker
Play some Christmas tunes
Visit Santa
Do some Christmas baking
Watch the Snowman/other Christmas movies
Eat mince pies
Play Stick the Nose on the Snowman
Make reindeer food
PNP

Wow, I feel exhausted just reading those some lovely ideas there that I think I will steal

Ps Shoe what is PNP please?

I thought it meant Party 'n play...... though usually in the drugs/gay sex type context - which is not always something one would immediately think of to do with kids and Christmas!

LOL MadeOf

I LOVE Christmas and like to do something special everyday, we put a little card in the advent calendar.

Last year we:
made Christmas cards,
made Christmas decorations ( paper chains, salt dough etc)
various festive baking
had a Christmas sensory box,
Visited Father Christmas,
bought tree,
Had a tree decorating "party"
Read Christmas books,
Watched Christmas movies,
Bought and wrapped presents for others
Went for a drive to see the Christmas lights in PJs

Oh and we also spent a lot of time just enjoying each others company!

I'm going to be just post C section this year so it might be a bit trickier this year, but still can't wait!

PNP = portable north pole - those free personalised videos from Santa.

The trick is to keep most of your activities low effort - dancing to Christmas music = dcs putting ipod on and going mad in living room while I sort out their tea!

PNP - the website where you make the Santa video?

'Tis brilliant.

We don't have many specific plans due to my health but the main thing I'm really looking forward to is putting the tree up. I'm getting a nice nativity story book and have bought tiny decorations (Jesus in manger, each of the three kings, a couple of stable animals etc). These are going to appear in the evening once the tree is all done, and we will read the story and then put the decorations on (as they are so tiny they need to be on the outside anyway). If we had space is get the DCs a tiny tree for their room and use that. May still do that if we get far enough with tidying the house. I would've got a proper nativity set but they are so expensive.

We are actually atheist but I want to make sure the DCs don't lose sight of what Xmas is actually about IYSWIM.

As for outings, I'm hoping to go to a carol concert on my birthday in London. Also my parents are happy to take the DCs out for a bit while DH and I put together a present (we are turning the back of DD's cabin bed into a den, and will leave a treasure map with clues so they find it on Xmas eve. They might go to a local llama farm where they have reindeer :)

ShoeWhore - that makes a lot more sense

Ditto!

I love Christmas and there is so much xmassy stuff going on its not an effort to put an activity of some sort in their advent Calander.
Last year my favourite one was watching Christmas DVDs. We had been (and stayed over in hotel paid for my Dhs work) to Dhs work do so EXTREMELY hungover, we didn't have the energy to do anything once our babysitters had gone so we all piled on the sofas for the afternoon, watched films and ate bacon sarnies! definitely doing that again this year!