Christmas brings with it the fun and excitement. It is the most awaited event of the year by both the elders and the kids. Kids are very excited at this event and wait for the loving treats, gifts and other activities by their elders. Make this festive season a memorable one by involving your kids in different activities.
Ask them to cut tree:
Gather your kids and go to tree farm. Allow them to cut the tree with their own hands using knives. It will be great fun for your kids. And they will feel the importance of tree on Christmas event.
Making family tree:
This can be the funniest activity after dinner. Kids can transform their dad into charismas tree by wrapping a green ribbon around him with a birthday cap on his head. It will be real fun if you attach some ornaments also.
Playing Christmas games:
There is variety of games kids can find to play on this festive season. The famous games are
- Jingle bell rings game
- Christmas song picture game
- Family tree game
- Christmas trivia
Play these games and have fun with big laughs.
Filling the stockings:
Ask your kids to fill the stockings with the candies they love. Make it as a competition that who will do it faster. The winner will get a cookie as a gift. After filling ask them to decorate it as well.
Christmas crafts:
Make special Christmas crafts on your own. You can make a beautiful snowman with white stones. Take three ant put them vertically. Make black dots as eyes on the last stone. This small cute snowman will look gorgeous. Use your plain bags as special Christmas gift bags. With little unique touch color them, paint on them and they will look beautiful. Make the Christmas cards by using hard paper. Cut it in different sizes, draw some flower or trees on it and color it. Fold the paper horizontally. Decorate the boundaries with red and green ribbons. You can also allow them to design canvas as an extraordinary Christmas gift for some special friends.
Making your own texture stamps:
Take small wooden blocks and paste on them different plastic textures. Dip it in the ink and try the stamp at your notebook. Gather your all cousins and friends to make their stamps too. Select a judge who will decide whose stamps are more beautiful.
Hand paint Christmas mugs and plates:
Paint your favorite mugs and plates with some bold colors such as red, golden and green. After painting these mugs can be used as gifts filled with nuts, candies, lollies, small tools and nails wrapped in cellophane. And the painted plates can serve as decoration pieces at your dressing table. They can also be used as a caddy for holding cutlery at your dining table.
Wrap gifts for friends and family:
Kids will love to pack and wrap the gifts. They can exercise their little cute creativity on wrapping sheet. They can cut the bows out of packing sheet and attach it to the gift. Kids know about the choices of their friends so they will beautifully wrap the gifts in favorite colors of their friends.
Involve kids in these activities and make their event a splendid one.
Atiq-ur-Rehman is professional independent information technology provider. He writes on gardening, home decoration and photography.