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- Go caroling....
- Go ride and look at the lights and then come home to hot chocolate....
- Go to see a live nativity (maybe NOT available in Alaska?)....
- Bake Christmas cookies and sample with hot tea or hot chocolate....
- Make Christmas gifts and goody baskets....
- Make Christmas wrapping paper....
- Take goody baskets for Troopers...Firefighters...Your Chaplain...a lonely neighbor! Fill with lots of homemade goodies!
- Make Christmas Decorations....
- Go visit a nursing home...sing carols, take homemade cards, really talk....
- Have a Birthday Party for Jesus for the children of your neighbors and friends...let each child bring a canned food/toy to donate for Christmas....
- Pull out the old photo albums and tell all of those hilarious family stories....
- You may want to even take time this holiday to make up a Scrapbook of just your past Holiday memories complete with stories from each holiday...
- Go shopping with your little ones...
- Pop some popcorn and have a Christmas family movie night....
- Read a great Christmas classic or bookaloud each night....
- Make Christmas ornaments...
- Make a Jesse Banner or tree ....
- Make an Advent Candle....
- Decorate your OWN "night tree"
- Buy the "adornaments" at the Christian bookstore...these are great forquick Advent devotionals...they center on the names/Character of Jesusand you have a little ornament to hang on the tree each night....
- Make a Christmas Book (homeschool alert - doubles as creative writing and handwriting for Dec)... take a picture each day (or draw one) and have your child write why THAT item reminds them of Christmas, or create a story about that item.....compile the book, save and bring out each year to read at Christmas time.
- We wrap all our Christmas picture books and the children take turns getting to choose a book to be read during the Advent season. The lastthing we do each year is rewrap the books and then pack up allour Christmas books, videos and music....they can't come out again until the day after Thanksgiving next year
- Make paper chains and tear off one for each day as you get closer to Christmas
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