Just me and DS on Christmas day, ideas please

FatVonD

Maybe buy some kind of 'posh' fizzy drink he's not normally allowed (I'm thinking Schleur or however it's spelt) and let him have it in a wine glass with your meal so the meal feels special.

I own an embarrassing amount of Christmas CDs, from Bing Crosby singing White Christmas , to Christmas carols to Slade and I always like to have those on in the background. They're often given away free in newspapers so keep an eye out!

FatVonD

Nearly forgot, Phil Spectre CHristmas album!

dancingfairy

Drive/walk around looking at the lights?
Light pretty candles, all flickering away.
Watch a festive dvd
Put on cheesy christmas music and dance around (optional in Pjs)
Play with present(s).
Skype family/friends.
Love the board game idea.

Christmas isn't just about the one day. Is he involved in putting up decorations, making paper chains, choosing the tree, making cakes/mince pies/'decorating' the xmas cake?
You can go out and about and collect holly/pine cone/drift wood etc to make a table centre piece. At christmas it's nice to see/taste the bits you have 'helped' make yourself
I agree with things you aren't allowed to do/don't get time to do the rest of the year so if it's breaking the no chocolate before breakfast rule or the dressed before breakfast rule or having something special for breakfast - pop tarts, acon sandwich, salmon, whatever you like. Late bedtime, loads of things will make it feel special to a 6 year old that won't be necessarily expensive.
He's 6. He won't understand that Christmas has to be a certain way. I think what makes Christmas special to a grownup is not the same as what a 6 year old will remember. I'm sure he will enjoy spending time with you however you spend it.
I hope you and DS have a lovely christmas.
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MadDogWoman_2

There's just the 3 of us for Christmas

My Daughter is 6, this week she is going to be helping me make paper chains to leave out for the Christmas Tree Fairies to put up when they call next weekend.

We have to take particular roads on the estate when driving home so she can look at the lights.

On Christmas Eve she is going to be helping make the sausage and bacon rolls to go with Christmas dinner. After we visit all of DH's family.

Christmas Day: We wake up about 8am, she opens her stocking then downstairs to open the rest accompanied by a hot drink. Once all the presents are opened it bacon butties.

After breakfast we go to church, followed by a quick visit to my brother's house, where my parents are too.

Christmas Dinner is about 4/5pm.

scottish_lassy

I was a single parent with one DD. This thread has just reminded me of the year I gave her the choice of what to have for Christmas dinner (we never did turkey!) and she chose sausage rolls!! It went so against the grain, but it was what she wanted. Chocolate, films, games and ........... sausage rolls!! Nice to have memories! Have fun making yours.

squirrelchops

Hi OP

For several years it was just my Mum and I for Christmas when I was little. One year we went out for it but to be honest it feels more lonely just being the 2 of you in a restaurant full of families than if you are at home.

We just used to chill out and do whatever we fancied. For Mum this was eating chocolates, drinking Baileys and watching whatever on TV - we used to take it in turns to watch what we wanted.

I had ponies as a child so the day invariably had something horsey to do - be it going for a ride or feeding/grooming them. We lived on a farm with dogs etc so going out for a walk was, and continues to this day to be something I do.

I never look back and think negative thoughts on the time it was just the 2 of us.

As others have said it is only one day.

go_cat

An excuse to have a pyjama day .... Fantastic :T

iammumtoone

Just want to say thanks again to everyone who posted, I was feeling a bit sad about it, but I'm now really looking forward to the day, just us two, we can do what we like when we like, no having to be anywhere/do anything at a certain time.

I asked him if he could so anything what would he like. He said he wanted to have a snowball fight (need to work on that one, I was thinking scrunched up tinfoil in balls wrapped in cotton wool)

He wants Pizza and chicken nuggets for dinner.

I have made a rough plan some of the ideas from here, some from another thread

Christmas eve
walk round the wood to find things to make a table decoration
bake some mince pies
bake Christmas breakfast muffins
The church hold a childrens service in the afternoon so we will go to that, hopefully there will be tea and squash afterwards
Christmas eve night I will give him a hamper with pjs, reading book, activity book, bubble bath, reindeer food - depending on funds/time I might make myself one as well
Track Santa (we normally do this anyway)

Christmas day
Breakfast - Biscuits and muffins
Dinner - Pizza, chicken nuggets, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, roast pots, ice cream for ds, Christmas pudding for me (I don't mind not having a traditional dinner but I am not giving up my Christmas pudding). Will serve coke and shloer in wine glasses.
Tea - frozen buffet food (ds can pick what he likes from the shop), cheese and crackers

Will will go and feed the ducks after dinner and take a football to play with.

The rest of the time we will just play it by ear, I will make sure we play a board game at some point.

I am also going to take him round the pound shop and ask him to find me a present, once he has found something I will leave and wait at the door so he can pay for it without me seeing. He can wrap it his self and will have something to give me Christmas morning.

go_cat

That sounds a fantastic plan and you may find this becomes your new "tradition"
Enjoy the day

hardpressed

One of the best Christmases we had when the children were small was to hid their presents around the house and give then a clue every hour or so so they could go off and find them, they got the last present about an hour before bed. Lots of the presents were little things but they enjoyed playing with each thing as they got it, rather than having everything at once.