Christmas Activities

Giving my children letters from Santa is one of my favorite holiday traditions. It’s not really something I started intentionally it just evolved (traditions are like that), and over the years it’s taken on a variety of forms- it seems Santa is always changing things up. Some years when he’s [...]Continue Reading

For our family, gingerbread houses are part of making the holidays magical.  Even as we've changed some of our traditions, we find ways to include gingerbread house decorating. We don't make them to eat, instead they're a fun decoration and more importantly, the process of decorating them is [...]Continue Reading

The Creative Christmas Countdown continues with a Christmas craft that makes a great handmade gift- make Christmas napkins! These cute holiday napkins are made by stamping on fabric with paint with cookie cutters. The kids and I made them together to give as gifts along with a jar of hot cocoa [...]Continue Reading

As part of our Creative Christmas Countdown this year we've made a card making station. Our Christmas Card Making Station makes it easy for the kids to make cards, and since I set it up early in the month, they have time to make cards for many of their friends and family without feeling [...]Continue Reading

It’s ok for it to be easy... Sometimes we get so bombarded with ideas about what will make the holidays special that we can begin to think that the only way to truly make the season bright is to complete a long list of tasks or to push ourselves to extremes to do just the “right” activities. You [...]Continue Reading