Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Holiday Activities for Children

As we all know Christmas is just few weeks away. Everybody is excited with all the beautiful holiday ornaments that will be decorated all over the place. Christmas decorations are definitely the key to a wonderful yuletide spirit.

There are lots of decorations that we can think of during Christmas. When we visit malls and stores during the holiday season, we can see Christmas trees, lights, lanterns, mistletoes and holiday wreaths everywhere. These are the common Christmas decorations that we see to every home. This time of the year, children are overjoyed because of the gifts that they will receive. They love watching and decorating their homes with holiday decorations. They like attaching candles to wreaths, hanging bells and embellishments to their Christmas trees, gazing at the running lights attached on walls and on trees.



What if we do something productive with the children? We can try to make their Christmas a memorable one by letting them join our activities while we prepare for the big holiday. With their enthusiasm, they will surely love to help us out with all the things that we need to prepare for the yuletide season.



Make them love gift wrapping. Gift wrapping is always a fun thing to do. We can make kids join us do the gift wrapping but with utmost supervision because they might mess up with the gift wrappers. Make something creative like a game for instance that they will look forward when we say gift wrapping. We can like ask them to make the best looking wrapped gift. Then give some extra credit if they did a great job.



Let the kids join the home Christmas decorating activity. Kids love attaching stuff to walls, doors so long as they can attach or put something to a certain place, it would be a lot of fun for them. We can let them decorate some Christmas wreaths and as a credit you will have their creation posted or attached on the wall so that they feel that they did a great job. For kids acknowledging their work is really a great achievement.

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