10 Ways You Can Spend Time With Your Family This Holiday Season

December 7, 2009 by Admin
Filed under Home Life, Parenting

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When it comes to spending quality time with your family during the holiday season, there are many things that you can do that are free or low cost. The following ideas are both in-home and out-of-the home ideas.

1. Singing Christmas Carols – You can go out singing Christmas Carols in your community with a community based or church based group.

2. Tree Lighting Service – You will find that most communities have a free tree lighting service that you and your family can attend.

3. Holiday Decorating – Involve your entire family in the holiday decorating task. If you can afford it, order take-out food and decorate your home and yard for the holidays.

4. Attend a holiday play or concert – Its the season to be jolly and almost all communities, churches or schools will put on some type of play or concert event. Gather up the family and attend a few events which are free or low-cost activities that you all can enjoy.

5. Holiday Baking – Here at my home, several females in our family get together the second Saturday in December every year and we do all of our holiday baking together. We will make pies, tortes, cookies, brownies and several cakes. We all bring a covered dish so that we can have lunch and dinner together and we make it an all day event. We send the men in the family out to hunt down our Christmas trees and to do ‘their’ own gift shopping. This is totally a ‘girls’ only day.

6. Arts and Crafts – Schedule one to two days and sit down with your children to make some holiday theme’d arts and crafts. Children love to craft!

7. Volunteer – If you have the time, I recommend gathering up the family and doing some volunteer work. You can volunteer your time at your local Food Pantry, Women’s and Children Shelter, Nursing Home, Homeless Shelter, Humane Society, etc. All of these types of charities need volunteers…especially around the holidays.

8. Christmas Lights Sight Seeing – Pack a few snacks and pile the family into the car. Drive around your community and check out all of the festive holiday lights and displays. We make this an annual event at our home and look forward to it every year.

9. Adopt A Needy Family – If you are financially stable, I recommend adopting a needy family in your community. You can locate those in need through local churches. You can make a few baked goods and purchase a few inexpensive gifts and drop them off to the family in need. This is the season to give back to others who are less fortunate.

10. Adopt A Military Soldier – There are many programs where you can adopt an overseas military member or his/her stateside family. You can send a care package to a military member overseas or offer help to his/her family here stateside. Whatever you do…make sure you show your appreciation to our military members.

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