Christmas traditions
I’m preparing already for Christmas lol. This year my son understand more he’s 2 years old. What are some traditions/ ideas I can start with him or for him. I want to collect something for him every year I was thinking to do an ornament of something he loves for the year. I also maybe want to start something for thanksgiving but idk if he’ll understand the parade or stuff. I need ALL ideas. Preparation is important this year especially because we didn’t go all out for Halloween we’re making up for it !
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It’s so fun establishing traditions with your kids! It’s a bit of work but I’ve done this homemade advent calendar where there’s an envelope for each day leading up to Christmas. Each one has a special activity, event, pack of stickers, or even a little treat! I look at the calendar and see what’s up and what we want to do and plan accordingly so for example, we’ve made it a tradition to go to our town’s annual tree lighting ceremony so for that day the envelope has that on there.
Others things I put in:
- Christmas movie night
- morning Hot chocolate
- Drive around and look at lights
- colouring page
- Cookie baking/decorating
I try and put the easier stuff during the weekdays and maybe the more involved activities for the weekends when my husband is home :)
We like to do a Christmas photoshoot & matching Christmas pajamas for Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. The photos are my favorite though as we’ve gotten to see our family grow over the years.
This year we plan on making some salt dough ornaments.
Advent calendar or have a movie night Friday each week leading up to Xmas to help get him excited
We are doing the ornament thing that’s pretty fun. We also try to go see Christmas lights every year. Where we are had a tinsel train so a whole bunch of Christmas trees that business decorate so that’s always fun. Or at our botanical gardens have lights
-A house to add to the Christmas village countertop decoration that we shop for and pick out together at a christmasy store.
-We decorate gingerbread houses for the Christmas village and decorate Christmas cookies and take a pic with them every year. We gift the cookies to family with the picture.
We also keep a lineup of the pictures that we frame and put on the mantle for decoration. -A xmas train advent calendar.
-We usually do an early December Xmas trip to a snowy Christmas place but since I’m in my 3rd trimester we’re skipping that this year to do all the local Christmas activities instead.
This was my 2 year old and 8 month olds first time trick or treating. We went to church members homes and then the next day we had our church fall hootenanny. He participated in the truck or treat and hay ride there. Lots of fun memories made. Thanksgiving will most likely be just us or maybe a friend giving, but Christmas should be fun
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I’m preparing already for Christmas lol. This year my son understand more he’s 2 years old. What are some traditions/ ideas I can start with him or for him. I want to collect something for him every year I was thinking to do an ornament of something he loves for the year. I also maybe want to start something for thanksgiving but idk if he’ll understand the parade or stuff. I need ALL ideas. Preparation is important this year especially because we didn’t go all out for Halloween we’re making up for it !
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