Cheaply beat christmas eve bordom

Ang1981

Xmas eve is my daughter 5th birthday. So it's a bit busy in our house.

:xmastree: :xmassign:

Triggles

Thankfully, DS is just 2, and he is in bed by 6pm and asleep very soon after. When DD was younger, Christmas Eve was about reading the Christmas Story (both nativity and night before christmas), Christmas videos, hot chocolate and a few biscuits, and relaxing with a fairly early bedtime.

donna73

I picked up a bargain in woolies this morning- paint your own plate kit reduced to £1.50 and they're on 3 for the price of 2! thought they could decorate them xmas eve bake them in the oven to set them,then use them to eat xmas dinner the next day :j
they've also got mugs , bowls etc reduced to same sort of price and on the special offer.
Hopefully it will keep them occupied for a little while.

tessie_bear

we take our kids out to lunch on xmas eve and to run around the park (weather permitting) its nice to walk around the market in town......carol singers in square soak up atmosphere etc we also plant our santa stop here sign in a pot on the drive we also sprinkle out reindeer food outside (oats) to attract the reindeers......we are going to look at norad this year and have a nice tea buffet possibly.......the hampers on here look lovely

mianjakesmummy

for the past 8 years i have had to work xmas eve, and this year (due to a new job) i dont have to yay! so all of the ideas in this thread are going to be really useful for me as i will have to occupy my almost 5 yr old and 2 year old,

thanks ! :T

ragz_2

I remember when I was little (and my mum still does this for my 12 year old sister) we used to get a "Present From The Elves" to open and keep us busy. A little something, usually a board game or something creative. As we only got one present and a stocking on xmas day this prolonged the festiveness and made us feel really lucky that we had an extra thing to open!