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Christmas Activities with Kids: Ages 6 and 8
It’s Christmastime! My boys are so excited. It’s time to think about our ideas for the best Christmas activities with kids.
When I was pregnant with Henry, I sewed a fabric advent calendar and wrote activity ideas on cards. Now that the boys are 6 and 8, it feels like it’s time for a little update! Here’s what I’m planning for this year. The boys will get to pick one activity a day leading up to Christmas:
Christmas Activities with Kids
- Carve handmade holiday stamps out of rubber and make gift-tags using stamps
- Cut down an evergreen tree (or buy a potted one and plant it after Christmas); decorate the
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‘Tis the Season: Our Holiday Traditions as a Family
The holiday season seriously seems to fly by. Halloween, Matt’s Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas–BAM! I’m trying to slow down and savor it as much as possible. I’ve worked to reduce the stress by staying ahead of everything I want to do: we start Halloween costumes in August or September, then we move on to getting our Christmas shopping started and holiday cards done. Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone (we had a fantastic week at the beach visiting my family in Florida), we are rolling out the Christmas traditions. Here are our holiday traditions as a family…
Holiday Traditions
- We travel out to Elgin Christmas Tree Farm (with our dog)
