Christmas Activities & Games That Makes Your Christmas Party Memorable & Fun

Family is at the core of the Christmas season

, so creating fun memories with your family is always at the top of the must-do list this time of year.

Think back to your childhood and Christmas time in your house. Are there particular memories that are clearer than others? Those are likely the traditions your parents created for you and your siblings. Trying to make traditions in your own home with your own children is one way to make Christmas fun, exciting and memorable. Perhaps its decorating cookies, or making gingerbread houses. Maybe when you were younger your mom always had something yummy smelling coming from the kitchen. You can make the same tradition through simply keeping potpourri warmed and smelling nice, if you don't have the time to bake frequently.

If you want to do a fun family activity in the kitchen, but if baking is not your thing, you can make a variety of other gift items in your kitchen. The kids love making chocolate and candy covered pretzel sticks, as well as you can pair those with homemade hot cocoa mix to give as gifts.

Be sure to incorporate music into your family's traditions. How about some family fun singing Christmas carols or creating your own family music CD? Record your family singing Christmas carols and use that CD as your music CD for the holidays. If you all are particularly talented, you could make these look pretty and give them as gifts.

Many families want to cut down their own Christmas tree. This is a really fun family activity that's able to add a bunch to the Christmas season. Christmas tree farms are located just about everywhere. Check into a local growers group for locations. You simply show up, grab a saw (this is mom or dads job) and go hunting. Depending on the location of the tree farm, you might walk only a short distance or you might hike up and down hills and far into the farms reaches to get just the right tree.

To add even more fun to this activity, make another family tradition that will annually go with the tree cutting. It can be as simple as also having lunch (at the same place each year) and picking up candy to eat in the car on the way home. You might also add a shopping excursion to the day; after the tree is safe at home in a bucket of water, you might all go shopping as a family for some new ornaments.

Other fun family activities can include annual visits to certain places in your community. Does your town have an annual "Christmas tree lane" where all the homes on one street decorate (sometimes in an over the top fashion) for the holidays? You can make a tradition of driving down the street each year, or walking the entire street, if the weather allows. Walking gives the kids a chance to see some of the details of the various decor items.

Many children think hot cocoa is an essential piece of the Christmas season. If that's the case with yours, you could start a fun family activity each year where you make a huge batch of hot cocoa mix at the start of the season. Let the kids have a small cup each night before bed during the month of December and closer to Christmas, add special items to the hot cocoa, like mini marshmallows one night and whipped cream another. Be sure to leave this family-made hot cocoa for Santa on Christmas Eve!

At a certain age, children enjoy decorating their room for the holidays. One fun family Christmas activity is to encourage this decoration through letting the kids shop for items to put in their rooms and letting them do the decorating. Be sure to take a picture of them in their decorated room each year.

by: Michael SeoVida Francis

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