subject: Check This Out Of Your Holiday To-do List: Making Affordable Treats & Decorations [print this page] If you havent done your Christmas shopping during the earlier months of the year, you will definitely feel rushed once Thanksgiving arrives. Before you know it, Christmas is just a week away and what if you forget to get your boss a holiday present? Or maybe the latest kids toy craze which your daughter really wants gets out of stock? In the midst of the flurry of activities which surround the holiday season, there are a few things that you can cross out on your to-do list so that you can lessen your tasks before Christmas day arrives.
Make Food Fun by Making Christmas Sweets with the Whole Family
First, you can create some quality family bonding time by making some Christmas sweets with the help of your kids. It pays to do these activities prior to the busyness that surrounds the holiday season so that you can spend quality time together. During the earlier months of the year, you have a hard time at work while the kids are in school so you may not see much of each other even if you live in the same house. But once the holiday season arrives, everybody is present so you can have plenty of time to spend together.
When you bake Christmas sweets and other goodies along with the kids, you can serve the eatable treats as snacks or dessert when you have a meal. You can also wrap the Christmas sweets in handmade packages so that you can give them as gifts to friends and relatives over the holidays. To give you an idea about the variety of Christmas sweets that you can make, take a look at the following list:
Bar and Square Baked Goodies
You can ask the older kids to bake bar and square goodies with you. Instead of rolling individual cookies, you only need to mix a batter for the squares, spread them into a pan, and cut them into bars after baking.
Gingerbread Men
No holiday baking will ever be complete without having a batch of gingerbread men. These are baked with ground ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves the smell of which will permeate your kitchen with the scent of the holiday season.
No-bake Holly Wreaths
These are made with corn flakes, candies, white chocolate and food color. You can ask the younger kids to help out in making these no-bake treats, and they can decorate the individual wreath with their favorite candy treats. You can also make frosted tea cakes, cookies, macaroons, whoopie pies, bourbon balls and a lot more.
How about Affordable Christmas Decorations?
Aside from doing some holiday baking, you can also ask the kids to help out in making affordable Christmas decorations. Bring them along with you when you shop for Christmas tree ornaments, or you can bring out all your crafts materials so that you can all make affordable holiday dcor with your own hands.
The holidays is as good a time as any to create some wonderful memories together as a family, and something as simple as decorating the house for the holidays or baking some Christmas sweets are ways to do just that.
