10 Christmas Traditions to Start This Year

1 - Cut your own Christmas tree. 

2 - Collect children’s Christmas books to read each day of the month of December.

3 - Start a 12 days of Christmas Service project.  Every day find some type of service around the neighborhood or community that you can do.

4 - Decorate Gingerbread houses.  You can make these with store bought kits, or assemble graham crackers into little houses.

5 - Write an annual letter reflecting on the past year and keep it inside an ornament.

6 - Take a “pajama picture” of the kids and put it in an ornament to serve as a picture frame.  Watch how the kids change from year to year.

7 - Buy ornaments for your tree as you travel through the year.  When you hang them on the tree, it will bring back memories of your trips.

8 - Let the kids do “indoor ice skating”.  Cover their feet in wax paper and turn on some classical music and let them skate around the carpet.

9 - Read the true Christmas Story.

10 - Pick out gifts to share with the needy.