Ways to Make Merry Moments with your Kids
Try these tiny ideas with lots of cheer:
Put holiday or encouragement cards in your children's mittens or sneak a special treat in their hats.
Help kids show their appreciation to the special people in their lives by purchasing photo-frame ornaments as gifts. Personalise each frame by inserting a photo of the child with the gift recipient.
As you trim the tree, recall the history of each special ornament. Hold up your youngest to put the star on top.
Ask school-age children to read holiday cards or gift tags.
Play a game. Put a variety of everyday, easy-to-identify objects in a Christmas stocking. Each player gets a turn at digging into the stocking to feel what's inside. No peeking. Whoever can name the most objects inside wins.
Ask the teens or tweens to recall their earliest holiday memories and share some of yours.
Take a walk after dark to see the neighbors' decorations.
Work on a holiday-themed puzzle together.
Involve your children in a charity. Sponsor a family and shop for gifts for them.
Make holiday treats and/or decorations to take to nursing home residents.
Lots of parents worry about making the holidays special when they're on a tight budget. Just remember it's the little things you do every year that come to mean "Christmas" for your children.
What will you keepsake this year?