What Christmas decorations will you have if you have a toddler?! No tree?

[PurpleTreeFrog]

I have an active, curious and "naughty" 18 month old. Naughty in the sense that there's nothing he finds more hilarious than testing my boundaries by touching and pushing all the things in the house he's not supposed to touch.

I have basically got to the point now where our living room is devoid of anything he can break or hurt himself on. However, what about Christmas?!

We love a big, real tree with lovely decorations. But he would just wreck it, I'm sure. The glass baubles would be especially dangerous... Should we just not bother with a tree this year? Or get a tiny one and put it on a table?

My then destructive toddler didn't even touch the tree, he did however get into his advent calendar and tear it apart to get the chocolates when my back was turned once.

DD is now 3, until now we've had no problems at all with the decorations. We have 7ft tree and last year I gave her a couple of tree decorations to put on the bottom which she loved.

I'm not sure what she'll be like this year!

When my DS was almost 2 we bought a real Christmas tree for our flat. He loved it but couldn't keep away from it. One day he decided to play hide and seek and hid behind the Christmas tree. He managed to knock the entire thing over! The tree lost most of its needles and loads of the decorations fell off, the tinsel went very lopsided! Quite funny in hindsight...but after the incident we haven't bothered with a real tree, we have a fake while we have toddlers in the house. My DS is 7 now but DD is still only 3 so might have a couple more years of a fake tree and then think about a real one!

We used to get a small one and put it on a sideboard where toddlers couldn't reach - could you do that?

We have a cheapish fake tree and unbreakable decorations. The kids love playing with it and moving the decorations around. We also have outdoor, waterproof lights for it.

I bought some crafting felted bobbles and hung those on the tree. Looked lovely.