Games to Play While Decorating The Christmas Tree

See larger image Make Your Own Christmas Tree Ornaments: Inspiring Ideas for Decorating Your Christmas Tree with Innovative Eyecatching Ideas (Christmas Crafts) (Paperback) By (author) Carolyn Bell List Price: $6.95 USD New From: $19.67 In Stock Used from: $0.01 In Stock

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Whether you want a riot of sparkling colour or a restrained palette of silver and misty mauve, this book shows you how to personalize your Christmas tree with a variety of projects, ranging from delicate silver snowflakes and gilded baubles to edible gingerbread figures. One of the most popular traditions that everyone enjoys is gathering the family around to decorate the tree. Bringing out the all the different ornaments that have been collected throughout the years brings back memorable moments from the past.

Hanging the decorations on the tree is only part of the fun!  Having the family participate in sing alongs of your favorite Christmas songs goes perfectly with the decorating activities.

You can also make a game out of hanging the ornaments. You can separate out all the hand made ornaments, then as you pick up each ornament ask your family members who created the ornament. This can often trigger some fond memories. If the ornament was made by one of the children this helps them to feel like they are a big part of the tree decorating festivities.

Another way to have fun is to find an ornament that you really don’t care for and play a game of ‘hot potato’ with it. Whoever ends up with it last has to try and find something good to say about it. This makes the game fun, but also helps to teach kids to see the good in all things.

Children always look forward to Christmas and you can help build on that excitement prior to the actual holiday by counting off the days on a calendar beginning December 1st.  You can also tie this in with your tree decorating activity to make it even more fun.

Here’s what to do. Purchase 24 tiny little gift bags with handles on them.  Let the kids decorate them a bit, number each one of them 1-24 and hang them on the tree.  The night before each new day arrives, put a little gift inside the bag.

The child will wake up the next morning to find the surprise you left in the bag the night before!  If the children are too young to recognize numbers yet, you’ll need to help them find the right bag each morning.