Holiday Tradition Ideas

It is the holidays and everybody is full of excitement and wonder! Sometimes you feel like you can’t get everything in for the holidays with all of the hustle and bustle. And that is ok! You don’t have to do it all, only the special things. I have gathered some ideas for holiday traditions you can start anytime. Choose the one, or three that work best for your family and all you have to do is do it every year. Do you have any traditions that you do already?

One of my favorites is a Christmas Eve box. You can use any kind of container you like. It can be a box, a bag, a treasure chest, whatever you have. Inside is for your Christmas Eve adventures. My favorite list of things to put in is a pair of Christmas pajamas to wear that night, hot chocolate, a Christmas movie, popcorn, and a new ornament for each kid. It stays closed until Christmas Eve and then the kids get to open it up to find the goodies inside.

The next thing that is always fun is a surprise holiday lights neighborhood tour. Surprise the kids by getting them all ready for bed (maybe a little early), pop some popcorn, then put them in the car for a journey around the neighborhood to look at holiday light displays. It is really fun for everybody!

Another very simple tradition is that everybody gets a new ornament each year. It can be a homemade one or a store bought one. Label the back with the recipient’s name and the year and every year when you put it on the tree you can remember when you got it.

The last idea I will suggest is doing a Christmas morning bake. This is easy to do if you prep the night before. There are many different options you can find for breakfast casseroles that you can prepare the night before and pop into the oven first thing in the morning. By the time the kids are done opening their presents, breakfast is done and nobody missed anything while cooking breakfast! Every year we do an egg, cheese, potato, and sausage bake and a blueberry breakfast cake and it is always a hit.

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