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Looking for Advent Calendar Ideas
Read all 15 responses: "Hello Ladies! As the Holiday Season is rapidly approaching, and the count down to Christmas begins, I have started to look for ...
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- Since he's only 2, you might want to wait until he's a little bit older to try and "make" something that will be a keepsake. It will be WAY cuter when he can draw lit...
- I don't know if you sew, but if not you can use a hot glue gun. Get a piece of felt or material in a rectangle and cut out 25 squares of felt. Glue or sew them on in...
- OK...so I own a gift store and we have the cutest ones. They are slippers all strung together and they have the numbers of the days on the toe....super cute! My store ...
Creative Ideas for First Day of Kindergarten
Aug 30, 2009 ... I am looking for any advice, suggestions or ideas on how to make the first ... Make a countdown chart (like an advent calendar), have a special "go buy a ...
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- My DD starts this year also! I found 2 matching charms and mine will be on a bracelet and hers on a necklace so we can look at them and think of one another throughout...
- Hi there! When my oldest daughter went to K we baked a cake the day before and decorated it together and the idea was to give her something to look forward to at the ...
- I let my son pick out the menu for the first day of school. He decides breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Christmas Traditions & Eating
My mom made an advent calendar. There is a felt tree and pockets beneath that hold ... hold a family meeting and I would present some Advent project ideas. ...
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- On x-mas eve we have hot chocolate that I do from scratch, and pop corn (not something I let them have often cause they make huge messes) then we watch x-mas movies an...
- In my family, on Christmas Eve we always eat chili and cornbread, read the Christmas story, and open presents. Then Christmas morning we open Santa presents. I love ...
- My mom made an advent calendar. There is a felt tree and pockets beneath that hold counted cross stitch ornaments for each day of December through Christmas Eve. The o...
Holiday Traditions
We are also going to do an advent calendar once we find one we like. I love the idea of new pjs for everyone. Each year since being married, I have cooked a ...
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- How about making or helping them each make an ornament for your tree each year. I do that with my kids & now we have lots of wonderful homemade ornaments on our tree.
- Sounds like you have lots of ideas. My family does the elf on the shelf. Its an elf that magically appears Thanksgiving and every night he reports to santa. Each morni...
- We, like you, are starting to form our own special holiday traditions with our children, especially now with family so far away (we recently relocated from FL). Our k...
Wooden Christmas Yard Art???
Mom Seeking Ideas on Engaging Toys for 18 Month Old Boy · 12 · Looking for Advent Calendar Ideas · 15. More Questions About ...
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- Head at to Canton! They always have crafty people out there!!
- High school craft fairs have this stuff all over. The Fossil Ridge one is this weekened, and Keller's is December 2nd.
- Canton, we went Sunday and they had some X Mas stuff, but they will have more in December. They did have XMas signs!! Not sure price. Good Luck!!
Holiday Tradition
Read all 31 responses: "Hello, I am looking for some fun ideas to do for Christmas Eve ... Last year we got an advent calendar to count down the days. ...
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- I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my mom on Xmas eve 4 years ago. I miss her greatly. We just carry on and I just remember how much she loved gift giving and watching ev...
- Some family traditions we have developed for Christmas Eve and Day include: Hot Chocolate with crushed cand canes added to drink while out looking at Christmas Lig...
- I think it's really wonderful you want to start some family traditions. :-) We have different traditions for different dates, some just happened and others we planned ...
Holiday Tradition Ideas Needed
I am at a total loss for ideas. The only thing..." ... My Dh would always get an Advent Calendar, the ones with a piece of chocolate for each day. ...
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- Hi A., My husband and I , have gotten one special ornament each year, (we always get them from Hallmark) we have been married for 9 years. And as soon as my firs...
- Hi A., I think you idea is a great one! I wish that I had thought of it. There are little porcelein boxes made. Some are pretty expensive, like Limoge. They are m...
- We do the Christmas ornament every year because then when they move out, they'll have a lot of ornaments to put on their own tree. Each is meaningful because it refle...
Christmas Crafts to Do with Kids
Read all 18 responses: "I am interested in new ideas for Christmas crafts ... How about an Advent calendar? You can make them in so many different ways. ...
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- Oriental Trading Comany has lots of craft kits, and craft supplies at very reasonable prices. You can find them on line at orientaltradingcompany.com. A few year...
- I have done this with votive candles because they are cheap but any size will work. Take tissue paper, the same color as the candle, the kind you put in gift bags, cu...
- Dear P., My kids are in their teens and twenties and still talk about those gingerbread houses we built at Christmastime ! they loved making their own houses out...
Seeking Family Christmas Traditions
Advent Calender- My kids fight over whose day it is to unveil the next charm ... I think it is a great idea to remind them that Christmas is NOT all about ...
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- Here are a couple of things we do: 1. Every year I get them new pajamas that they get to open on Christmas Eve so they have new PJs for Christmas morning pictures. ...
- I am a single mom of a 14 year old daughter and a 12 year old son and have been a signle mom for 12-1/2 years. It is a tradition in our family to go Christmas shoppin...
- My hubby actually came up with a great tradition that we have started. Every year we go to Hobby Lobby or a similar craft store and look at thier "charms" everybody g...
Is "A Simple Christmas" Just a Myth?
Here's a couple ideas I did growing up, that my husband and I have begun doing for our family. -advent calendars: as a child, we had a neighbor make us an ...
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- Hi D.:) Since I was a little girl we have always had Simple Christmases. My parents one did not have the money to get us a lot but two they wanted us to know that gett...
- Hi D., Here are some suggestions: Set up gift giving guidelines for the family, like agree not to exchange, or to only give to a charity on their behalf. I tell oth...
- For our first married Christmas, we went out of town and made goodies for the parents to eat/share in our absence, lol. That did not go over well with MIL at all, she...
