What are your families favorite Christmas tradtions? Trying to create new ones for my kids because I never got a christmas when I was a kid
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We started a new one a few years ago, everyone brings a present to exchange it can not be over $20.boy brings for boy ,girl brings for girl. This year I changed it up a little we have to buy it at a second hand store, clearance sale or we had to buy it at a yard sale, same price $20. They had since mothers day to buy it, they s should be fun this year
Huge big fruit salad platter for Xmas breakfast.
Stockings all hung up
Xmas carols the night before
Lots of Xmas movies
Christmas matching clothes for little kids.
Xmas ham
Going Xmas lights looking all together then after we go get desert from McDonald’s.
The Man of the house reads and hands out all of the presents Christmas morning.
These are just some of ours and we are a family 9
Our family dynamics have changed a lot the past few years. But some of our more favorite traditions include Christmas Eve. I spend days prepping food and treats. The whole family comes over in the afternoon and I put out appetizers and finger foods all afternoon. I also bake a bunch of cut out sugar cookies the day before and have a cookie decorating table set up for the kids to decorate cookies special for Santa. My oldest will read my grandfathers copy of The Night Before Christmas. We play board games and sing Christmas carols. Oh, and our Elf on the Shelf brings a Christmas Eve box for all the kids to open. And we exchange gifts with my sisters family. The past 4 years it’s just been my sisters family and mine. But I’ve had as many as 25 people over for our Christmas Eve party. It’s always a good time.
Then Christmas morning, it’s just the kids and I. We have cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Then once I’ve finished my 2nd cup of coffee, it’s the mad dash to the living room to open gifts and stockings. Then their dad comes by later in the morning to bring gifts with his girlfriend and they’ll usually stay for dinner.
When my kids were young, they each had a small Christmas tree in their rooms and loved decorating it. They baked with me,helped decorate,etc. I loved filling stockings wi5all kinds of goodies, driving around looking at lights,church and family.
Anything you do with your kids will make wonderful holiday memories for them! There are tons of ideas for ornaments kids can make on Pinterest.
Also a great thing is to take a name from and Angel tree in your area and shop for the less fortunate……giving is a wonderful tradition
Got grandkids now, but I still remember driving around looking at lights, buying Christmas tree with only dad & kids( he would hold them up & spin around till we found one without a hole!)decorating tree, grandparents visiting.
With our kids, we went to church on Christmas Eve, looked at lights, Advent calendar, read many Christmas books thru the season, school programs,& visited family.
I now see lots doing the matching PJ’s but if you don’t have the $ , no worries.
The night before everyone gets Christmas Pajamas to wear on Christmas day. We also have a theme and the famy matches. For example, one year it was Christmas sweaters. Last bit not least the month of December we watch all the Harry Potter and Twilight movies.
I created this for my selfish need to have a few minutes to wake up before the chaos of children. 
It stuck & they love it.
I put stockings in their rooms filled with fruit, a pastry & juice. They also get 1 wrapped gift. It’s an activity to keep them busy. 1 year I got little lego boxes & Lego sets from the tree, another year was fashion plates, coloring books, reading books etc. Im not sure what to do this year. Either microscopes or little handheld video games. Maybe 1 if each. They get up, eat, play, clean up. They don’t come downstairs until I play Christmas music.
I found some “count down boxes” a few years ago. Every day you turn the dial 1 click on Christmas eve it reveals a key. There was stuff inside them when I first bought them. Now I put their Christmas PJs (we all get matching or coordinating pajamas), a treat, hot chocolate & toy inside it. They get to open them after dinner, put the pj’s on, take pictures & watch Polar Express.
Putting up and decorating the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving dinner.
Taking a name from a local Christmas tree and buying a toy for someone in need.
Sipping on hot chocolate and driving around to look at Christmas lights.
Christmas Eve service.
Baking sweets and prepping for Christmas dinner.
Kids open 1 or 2 gifts on the Eve and watch Christmas movies.
The best Christmas traditions are the ones that are special to you and your little family.