It’s the Little Things {traditions with the kids}

A few weeks ago, I posted about my favourite Christmas traditions that I brought into my family from my parents. This week is about my favourite Christmas traditions to do with the kids, that are new to our little family.

Breakfast with Santa Every year since Xander started school, we’ve gone to the school’s breakfast with Santa. The food is great and the kids get their picture taken with Santa. It’s a nice start to our Christmas season.

Painting Wrapping Paper Being crafty is my thing, and luckily for me – my boys love it too! They especially love to paint, so I figured that we could kill 2 birds with 1 stone… They get to paint, and I get some very cute and original wrapping paper:)

Gingerbread Creations As I mentioned above, the kids love to be crafty… So every Christmas we make a Gingerbread treat of some kind. It decorates our house for a week or two and then we leave it out for Santa on Christmas Eve.

Book Advent It has always been our tradition to read T’was the Night Before Christmas on Christmas eve. This year we took it a little further… I gathered all of the Christmas/Winter books we had around the house (which was about 12 books), then I went to the library and borrowed another 12. I wrapped and dated all 24 books from the 1st – 24th of December. Every night the boys get to open one and we read a new book, counting down to Christmas!

Baking Christmas Cookies A tradition I have grown to love doing with the boys now that they are a little older is baking Christmas cookies with them. Ethan is usually my little helper making the dough, while his brother watches TV:) But when the time comes to cut them out and decorate them… All hands are on deck! We leave some of these out for Santa too. Is there really any doubt as to why that man has some weight issues?:)

What traditions are you passing on?