We are in the middle of the Christmas season and both on the streets of all cities and in most houses, you can breathe that festive atmosphere so typical of Christmas. But above all, it is a perfect time to make different plans as a family. In this way, you can fully enjoy Christmas and create precious memories and new traditions to recover every year.
Virtually all cities have special activities to enjoy with children this season, but you can also organize different activities at home or in other more original ways. If you need a little inspiration, here is our list of activities and special plans to do as a family this Christmas. Can you think of any more?
1. Make Christmas cookies and candy
Children are excited about baking, not just eating it, but preparing it and playing with the flour and all the fun ingredients that are used to make sweets. Cookies and typical Christmas sweets are fun and perfect to prepare with children. You can take them for a snack, but they can also be a great gift to visit family and friends.
If you need any recipe, here you will find some delicious Christmas cookies, Christmas trunk and even, the step by step to make a traditional gingerbread house.
2. Christmas crafts
Crafts are a perfect activity for children develop all their creativity, their physical abilities and social skills, such as teamwork. There are infinite possibilities to do with the little ones, from Christmas ornaments to decorate your house, even lyou gifts that children can give to their friends and family.
3. Watch Christmas movies
An ideal way to spend time with your family and enjoy Christmas is organizing a movie afternoon with the little ones. The winter weather invites you to stay at home enjoying the warmth of home and some beautiful and typical Christmas movies. Prepare a good hot chocolate, some Christmas cookies and choose the movies that you will share with your children this holidays. Here we leave you our selection of Christmas cinema perfect for the whole family.
4. Make a Christmas greeting video
Although many people still use traditional Christmas cards to congratulate the family, the truth is that today it is more convenient to use new technologies. In addition, they offer you the possibility of doing most creative and original congratulations. A very fun idea is to record a video of the whole family with a special congratulations.
To make it more fun, you can wear costumes, sing a Christmas carol or recreate a typical Christmas scene. Your family and friends will surely be delighted with the Christmas card.
5. A marathon of Christmas lights
The streets of all cities are filled with lights and special decorations for Christmas and in each neighborhood and in each town, they are different. Choose different places near your area to visit the Christmas lights, it is not necessary that it be very dark, since generally from 18.00 in the afternoon the lights are on in all cities.
6. Remember the special moments lived in the year
The year is about to end and a good way to say goodbye is to remember all that you have experienced as a family. To create a new tradition, you can dress up and prepare a special snack, then around the table each one will have to say what is the time of year that you liked the most. So together, you can remember those moments that you enjoyed so much in your day and that had been forgotten.
7. Sing Christmas carols in the street
This is a tradition that is still growing in many countries, not so in ours. And it is a pity that this is being lost, since singing Christmas carols brings people together and is a beautiful way to celebrate Christmas in community. Go out in your neighborhood with some tambourines and sing Christmas carols With your children, surely many people will join you and together, you will encourage many people who live these holidays alone in their homes.