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[quote=Anonymous]The weekend after thanksgiving we go get a tree and decorate it

Advent calendar…you can do one w a Christmas-y activity for each day if you’re ambitious or just do a more simple one if you’re not as ambitious (we just have a felt calendar w Velcro figures/shapes for each day and the kids enjoy hanging each one up.)

Baking and decorating Christmas cookies (we usually just stick w gingerbread cookies and sugar cookies and use cookie cutters and bagged frosting and sprinkles…easy!)

Driving around looking at lights

Zoo lights

Once my youngest was about 4 or so we started involving the kids in shopping for each other. We split the kids up and each parent takes one kid shopping for the other kid and the other parent and then we switch kids and each kid shops for the other parent so that the kids each get each other a gift and each kid gets a gift for each parent too. I love this tradition as it teaches the kids to be think of the others in our family and what they’d like. The kids always choose to open their gifts from each other first bc they can’t wait to see what their sibling picked for them!

We always get an angel tree kid to buy gifts for and go shopping for them together.

Putting cookies out for Santa and carrots out for reindeer on Christmas Eve. A few times I’ve also made “reindeer food” (raw uncooked oats, red and green sprinkles) that the kids went outside and sprinkled on the lawn on Christmas Eve.

We always read some kind of Christmas story on Christmas Eve sometimes it’s the traditional Twas the night before Christmas and sometimes the grinch or some other story.

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