Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Christmas traditions

painting the front door

The finished product

painting an ornament

cut out cookies


decorating the cut out cookies

The indoor light show

Christmas is the ideal season for traditions, although the kids remember just about everything we do on every holiday and inform us if we do them wrong the next year!
Every year (thanks spot for the idea) we paint our front door with powder paint mixed with dish soap.  Its fun to paint and it is fairly easily removed (by Anika and a friend).
We paint the kids' hand prints on the tree skirt and paint the year next to it.
Each kid chooses a ceramic ornament and paints it.  Matt paints an identical one for them so they have their own version and Matt's version of how it should be painted.
Sinter Klaas leaves an ornament and a candy cane in their wooden shoes under their beds.
We bake and decorate cut out cookies.
We attend light shows.  This year it was moved inside and wasn't nearly as fascinating as when it is on 14 different houses, but it was still pretty fun.  The mini golf course also does a light show which was quite enjoyable.
Usually, I print out a calendar with suggestions for what we should do every day.  This year, I just printed a huge list of possibilities and crossed off what we accomplished.  Quite a few!

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