I want the kids to be excited about Christmas.
10 months back I found a deal on some Christmas books. Disneys Christmas for $5 and a singing away in a manger board book for ~$2. We saved them and gave them to the kids for home evening today. It seemed to make sense to give it to them now rather than Christmas. Hopefully we can read them almost every day and get them excited.
Before we gave them the gifts, we spent time just talking about Christmas, looking up Christmas-related pictures on the iPad and asking them questions.
Then we started the santa's beard countdown to Christmas thing, which seems like it will be fun. You can find that here: http://www.tomfo.com/shop/santas-beard-christmas-countdown-advent-calendar-free-for-subscribers
You put cotton balls on each number each day.
It was fun. The kids were excited about their books. And they are excited about Santa and baby Jesus, so I guess it's a success. We also sidetracked into teaching our oldest son when his birthday was, which we have never really done before. Finding time to go on those tangents is what it's all about.
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