Bake Christmas
Cookies together
as a family on Christmas Eve or anytime
during the Holidays!
Bake gifts for friends and
neighbors and deliver them together with your
children.
Go Christmas
Caroling!
Have a certain
meal that your family enjoys every year as
you are decorating your Christmas
tree.
Decide together
each year how your family can volunteer your time and
money to assist those less fortunate and then
share this activity as a family.
Bake a huge bowl
of popcorn and drive
around your neighborhood looking at Christmas
lights with your stereo blasting your
favorite Christmas
carols.
Create a special
place in your home to place Christmas photos from years past
and keep them updated!
Design a "Memory
Book" for
Christmas and each year document special
things that happened to your family during
the Holidays.
Pick out your
family's Christmas
Tree
together and ALWAYS decorate it together with
Christmas
music and hot chocolate brewing in the
background.
Watch "It's A
Wonderful Life" together with
your kids.
Never miss the "Charlie
Brown"
Christmas show.
Snoopy loves Christmas
too!
When you are
feeling completely stressed out, turn on "Alvin and
the Chipmunks" Christmas album
and dance around the living room with your
kids.
Buy Santa hats
for your entire family and wear it everytime
you go
shopping in the mall.
Decorate the outside of
your home and make it the showplace of the
neighborhood.
Read "The Night
Before Christmas" before
tucking in the kids on Christmas Eve.
Read the REAL Christmas
story on
Christmas morning!
Bake a birthday
cake for Jesus and sing "Happy Birthday"
to Jesus!
Put candles in all rooms of
your house.
Make at least
ONE Christmas
craft every
year with the kids and give it a place of
MOST PROMINENCE in your living room!
Put jingle bells on your shoe
laces.
Wear RED the
entire month of December.
Share the gospel
of Jesus with someone who doesn't know the Good News this Christmas.
Involve the
children in the meal
preparations.
Dress warmly and attend your
town's Christmas
Parade.
Decorate your
children's bedrooms with Christmas
decorations.
Visit someone
who is housebound and bring them a home baked gift.
Eat at your
favorite restaurant at least once
during the holiday season and go see the
latest Christmas
movie.
Go ice skating together.
Go see Santa Claus and have a
family portrait taken while the ENTIRE family
is sitting in his lap! *grin* (We actually do
this!)
Host a cookie swap
party for
your kids.
Buy new Christmas p.j.'s every year and
wear them on Chrismas Eve.
Build a
wonderful
fire and relax as a
family playing a board game.
Order Pizza and eat by the
Christmas tree.
Remember the true meaning of
Christmas ALL
YEAR LONG!
Family Christmas Traditions 
