Decorating homes for any celebrations is truly something everyone will look forward to especially if you are parents with young children or school-going kids. It’s always exciting for the kids to see their parents hanging new drapes, setting up the Christmas tree, doing flower arrangements, wrapping Christmas presents, or baking and cooking.
Instead of just the adults doing all the decorations, why not get your children to be a part of the decorating team as well? It’ll be more fun and a good bonding or therapy session for the entire family.
Here are some tips for you to decorate your home and get your kids excited for the holidays.
Choose A Christmas Tree Theme
Start browsing some Christmas tree themes and get your children to choose their preferences. Your children can pick a motif such as candy cane, Nutcracker, Santa’s workshop, winter, and so on. When it comes to colour choices, the children can also go beyond the usual red and green to an unexpected palette that can be just as merry.
Get your children involved in putting up the ornaments, going in order from tree top to bottom.
Wrapping Up Christmas Presents
Usually young school-going kids can learn to wrap presents easily if you teach them the steps. They will not only be a great help but some may even voluntarily offer themselves to do it for you. In a way, it’s a beautiful feeling as the kids get their hands on them and be part of the celebrations.
It’s also a great bonding session with your kids!
Let Your Kids Decorate Their Rooms
Allow your kids to go wild in decorating their rooms. For example,
- Your child can put twinkle lights in her room and sleep with the lights on.
- Exchange their bedsheets to a holiday theme and bring on more colours into the room.
- Decorate the room with some Christmas ornaments like balls, socks, or Santa’s hats.
- They can also put up Christmas themed mural paintings
Personalised Wreath-Making with Kids
Christmas wreath symbolizes eternal life or joys and victory in classical times. You will see almost everyone who celebrates hanging them on their doors to show the Advent has arrived. This is a great DIY Christmas decoration activity for your kids to do it together with you.
You can buy the plain green wreath at the store and get your kids to decorate them with Christmas ornaments and bows. Keep it simple for easy clean-up!
Baking Together
Who wants some yummy cookies? There are too many tasty cookies to choose from so pick your children’s favourite and get them to be involved in the kitchen. Your younger kids can help to add pre-measured ingredients, stir the bowl and decorate cooled cookies while your older kids can pitch in at any stage to help.
Your kids will be excited to bake and experiment with different shapes of Christmas themed cookie cutters like Santa, Snowmen, Stockings, Christmas Trees and more.
Gingerbread House Making
If mum is a talented baker – this comes in handy. Make the most colourful gingerbread house with your kids by gathering your entire family. Give them some gingerbread walls and roofs and all the candy and frosting you can get your hands on. Let them be creative with their decorations. Surely a fun gingerbread house will make the holidays even more exciting and it can also be a great center piece too!
Decorate your Garden
Take the Christmas decorations outdoors to create that cheerful and festive ambiance. Your kids can help you make decorations by upcycling things around the house. You can also light up your garden with some soft candle glow or some simple outdoor display whether you only choose to outline the front-facing windows or to deck the entire garden with lights.
Giving & Sharing
Christmas is the season of giving and sharing. How about encouraging your children to give by shopping for a toy or two to give away to the less fortunate children?
It will brighten your Christmas and someone else’s too, and it can easily become a new family tradition for this time of year. Since the kids will be getting their own new toys this year, you can go through their toy box together and find some toys they’re willing to part with for charity.
This also teaches your kids to be selfless and kind.
DIY Christmas Cards
It’s nice to bring the old traditions back – yes, to send out Christmas cards. It has been a challenging two years for many due to this pandemic. Why not send Christmas Cards especially to your older family members and friends who may need some extra cheer?
All you need to do is get your kids to be a little creative. There are lots of downloadable Christmas card packs and DIY ideas that you and your kids can create.
