Spill the beans... on your free Christmas magic for kids tips

Angela84

I love Christmas! There is real magic in the air! For the last couple of years we have gone out for a drive in the evening in the week before Christmas to see the lights, there's some very keen people around here!
We always write our letter, and I'll be writing a reply for my son now as his reading is going very well (5 years old). He'll be chuffed with that I know, the note written from the tooth fairy is stuck on his wall!
Christmas eve I just love that pyjama idea, borrowed if you don't mind!!
We'll get our mince pie, drink, reindeer snack all ready, and then we read our Night before Christmas book. I use flour to make footprints in snow. My son hasn't yet cottoned on to the fact is hasn't actually snowed, and that the snow hasn't melted!
Christmas day I used to love when later on in the day, when the presents have been opened and the magics quieting down, my mum would come to me in shock 'look what I've just found outside, one more present, he must have forgotten to drop it last night!' and I'd have one last unwrapping excitement, normally some chocs as we'd have eaten by then.
Ah, I love christmas!

janeydob

Norad Tracks Santa is an absolute must for children of the 21st century! Early on Christmas Eve (UK time) Santa leaves the North Pole and flies south to start his journey in the south Pacific. Courtesy of Norad's satellites you can track him as he travels through Australasia, Asia, and ever so slowly he creeps ever closer to us at home. In addition there are videos (animations) of Santa flying past Sydney Harbour Bridge, racing a bullet train in Japan etc. My sons now aged 14 and 12 still love it. The website is noradsanta[dot]org/en/ and according to their countdown it's 16 days, 10 hours and 39 minutes until the big man takes off!!!

My sons believed in Father Christmas until they went to secondary school. Since then they have decided that they will do stockings for my husband and I, so Christmas morning is wonderful as we're all excited to see what the others think of their stockings!! It's just a little way of proving to them that giving is just as much fun as receiving!!

Happy Christmas everyone! :beer:

Adela31

I am crying. I want to give Teddyco a bighug! Or maybe a bah hum - hug
My kids are 6, they love the fat bloke, its ALL GOOD

mcja

aww, love this thread..some lush new ideas and lots we do already...HAPPY CHRISTMAS PLANNING EVERYONE.

reddragons

Having no chimney for the big red guy, he would always have to come in through the letter box. Mix some flour with different colour glitter, get someone to wear a pair of welly boots or any type of boot and use a sieve to sprinkle over the boot making a perfect outline of magic snow prints with magic dust in. It's easier with 2 people doing it but as a Naval wife there has been many a christmas with me stomping around in a pair of wellies sprinkling over my own feet, just don't drink the alcohol first otherwise kids will know Santa has had 1 or 2 too many!!!

old_mother

lizchris101 wrote: »

My parents would hang homemade stockings over the fireplace for all nine children in age order on Christmas Eve. They would be filled by Santa and left on each child's bed. Even now I can remember waking when I rolled over onto it and heard it rustle. I do the same for my children now and they love it. They get to open a little present, have a treat to eat and a drink and it also gives us adults a little more time to wake up before we all go downstairs to find the main stash of presents, again lined up in age order.

wow, you're nont my late mum are you?
That brings back memories of my Christmas. Mum still left a fill santa stocking on my bed until I finally left home at 22

inneed

As Christmas got nearer we always looked for the brightest star in the sky, which we said was the Christmas star.
We had home made decorations including cutting up and decorating egg boxes for the tree, and we always had a huge real tree (no money for that, it was a present from a grateful customer).
I also used to jingle some bells in the evenings when dd was in bed. A couple of years ago (at the age of 36), she said she is sure she heard bells around Christmas time, or was it her imagination? Her face was a treat when I told her it was me! Bless.
I would love now to be artistic enough to turn my conservatory in to a winter wonderland for dgs.

MarilynMonroe_2

2 yrs ago I sprinkled that very tiny metalic confeti outside the door as reindeer dust, so Rudolph would see it shining and know to land here - I swear I still find bits of it brought in! This year I might just use normal glitter.

Santas getting a Crabbies and maybe a chocolate biscuit -- carrot for Rudolph!

Dd has posted her letter to sant and had her PNP message (I got one too! and am not on the naughty list!)

We're doing christmassy crafts most days, got some mosaic things from wilko to make over the next few days. We made a rocking robbin last week and a snowman.

Cbeebies have an advent callendar online and you get a bit message and some games to play.

We play spot the christmas house on the bus.

When I was little I got none of this, just came down middle of the night to open presents and that was it. Never anything for Santa and Rudolph or any build up at all. Everyday me and dd talk about Santa and what he might bring, it's dead exciting!!

idristhedragon

I hide in the garden and jingle jingly bells and my 3rd was so wide eyed with wonder he still talks about "hearing father christmas"
One year we set the video camera up to "record" on the top of my daughters wardrobe (it wasnt turned on obvs) and when she was asleep husband took her stocking in, dressed in his father chritsmas suit and I recorded it (really wobbly cos Id had santas port and was laughing SO MUCH) and we showed her in the morning and she was entranced. She now (14) thinks its sooooo lame and OHMYGODHOWDIDIEVERFALLFORTHAT but its a great memory. I also did glitter from the chimney to the bedsides one year but was hoovering it up until about June so got over that one quick! Oh and we always do new jamas on xmas eve

annieb_101

i love love love love norad tracks santa i'm 21 too but remember being shown it when i was younger n i'm usually sat in front of the laptop shouting down to mum saying where father christmas is lol x