The festive season provides us with an opportunity to create memories with our families that we will cherish throughout our lives. With the holidays about to begin, you, too, must be looking for some fun ways to make this Christmas and New Year’s Eve a memorable experience.
Therefore, here we share five fun ideas to help you make this festive season the best yet.
Create a new tradition
Festivals are all about reliving traditions that have been passed down in the family for generations. However, this holiday season, add a twist; create a new one.
Bring the entire family together to help cook the dinner instead of just having dinner together. Assign everyone a specialized task so that each one feels included and has something significant to contribute. It’d be a lot more fun if everyone gets dressed in a theme. It could be color-specific or something related to Christmas. While at it, you all can sing carols and make videos to make the experience even more engaging.
But you need to make sure that you do it every year and turn it into a real tradition that you can discuss with your grandchildren over laughs and dinner one Christmas years from now.
Share what you can
We may be fortunate enough to celebrate holidays with family and friends, but not everyone is. As an act of kindness, you can help those who aren’t by spending some time with them. Small gestures such as serving food at a shelter home or spending time at a local nursing care center will make these cold days a bit brighter for the sick, elderly, lonely, and distressed.
Relive old times
Right now is the best time to bring out those dusty old albums with photographs of when you were a child or when your kids were small. Leaf through them leisurely. Reminiscing about old times together will help you rekindle your relationships, creating the perfect opportunity to share untold anecdotes.
Ask grandparents to share stories
Christmas is that time of the year when the entire family—including grandparents—gets together. It would help if you used this time to ask your grandparents to share their memories of their growing-up years. It was an era remarkably different from ours. Your grandparents will have a wealth of information and stories from that time they would be happy to share.
Try DIY decorations for Christmas
Making DIY crafts is an entertaining activity for both children and adults. This season, you can convert it into a game and ask everyone to try DIY Christmas decorations. Use these crafts to decorate your home. Everybody will enjoy it, and you will get plenty of decorative items to choose from when you do your home.
About Jane Clauss
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