Christmas Day traditions

[Boysnme]

We are spending the day with family who don’t normally do very much for Christmas.

Can anyone give us some ideas of Christmas traditions that they have or things they do during the day / games they play etc. Anything that could add a bit of festivity to our day would be great!

For us, it goes something like this:
Stockings, breakfast (panettone French toast this year), church, presents, Christmas dinner, short walk, film (something that everyone will enjoy like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit or The Sound of Music), games (classics like Charades, Taboo, Pictionary, Consequences) and then cheese fondue followed by Christmas cake and Baileys. In the evening we video-call family who we couldn’t be with to wish them happy Christmas and thank them for the presents.
I always burn a Christmassy candle in the sitting room so the whole house doesn’t smell of turkey and stuffing all day long!
DH makes a Christmas play list for lunch - usually all the classics and whichever song has made it to Christmas number 1 that year.

The morning is just us. Presents, breakfast, champagne and the TV on in the background. Early lunch at 2. Then open house from 4 pm. You come or you don't but we don't go out. The invite is there. Food and drink will be put on. If you can't come we catch up another time.

For us, christmas eve we usually open christmas presents from the chirstmas tree (silly, small gifts that are wrapped and placed in the tree), this year we will be doing that Christmas morning as family arnt arriving until then. Canapes and champagne with pressies then usual lunch, dog walk, board games and at the end of the evening a large, home made cracker which every one helps to pull and then pile in to pick out choclates and small gifts (seeds, mini hand creams that kind of thing).

In our house we have a nice breakfast, get dressed and go to mass, cooking together. Presents typically include a big Lego set, a jigsaw, a boardgame/card game which lend themselves to a bit of cooperative play

Thank you all. Does anyone have any board game recommendations?

We have a similar situation this Christmas after spending the last three just us (me, DH and DS). I feel we need some loose plans and things to do as the relatives visiting aren't usually too fussed about Christmas and will happily watch TV all day (boring). I was considering getting an Escape Room type game that can be done at home.

In terms of board games, we really like Articulate!

Although its not a board game, we enjoy Monopoly Deal. Its only a couple of ££ but easy enough to pick up the rules for the kids (and adults!!) and quick paced and interesting enough to keep every ones attention. We are always "just one more game..." 😆