Last minute treats for ruined Christmas

[upyourscovid]

So as with a lot of other people, our Christmas plans have been ruined by DD testing positive. DS (13) is absolutely gutted as we rarely see the family members that we were meant to be seeing.

Given he's hard enough to extract from his bedroom at the best of times, does anyone have any ideas of treats or similar to make the time slightly less crap and disappointing for him?

Any films on box office/sky store worth paying for he'd want to watch?
New game?

We'll be alone on Christmas Day due to Covid (were expecting to be hosting family).

We're having a full Christmas dinner for the five of us (missing off a few items we'd have had, but not many).

Then planning to do an escape room game together in the afternoon and a chocolate sprout hunt in the garden.

last year we were like this.

We all had a lie in, late breakfast, then presents with coffee.
Lunch with all the trimmings.
Then snooze for us on sofa.
Then we got out the board games, and crakced open some wine. It all got quite silly, and we had a good time.

We didn't push it though, while we were snoozing the teens all went off and did techy stuff for a couple of hours. They needed that too.

Love the idea of doing an escape room. That would go down a storm with ours.

also, with the new 7 day thing, when will you be free? Can you arrange a family meet up for 3 days later?

put some competition into the board games.

Teen boys tend to be motivated by a bit of competition. get a good/ridiculous prize, and play best of 5 games. everyone gets to choose one game, no games allowed to take longer than 1 hour. (lots of games can be speeded up, eg use 2 dice)

I’d be having PJ day on Xmas eve with a few treats in Xmas eve boxes- popcorn, hot chocolate, biscuits etc. relaxed Xmas day opening presents, eating brunch, playing board games, Xmas movies, Xmas dinner , making TikTok videos with the teenagerDS and late night.