Tis The Season For A New Family Tradition

Time to welcome in Christmas with the family gathered round! Create a formal dinner just for your family. Use the fine china, crystal, silver,etc... Try serving at least three courses (can be simple salad, dinner, and dessert.)

Here are some cute ideas for setting your fancy table and don't forget to come up with conversation ideas as well. No time better for being together and laughing, talking, and making memories with your children.

*Place a different cookie cutter at every family member's place setting. Use holiday ribbon as a napkin ring holder and tie the cookie cutter to the napkin.

*Have a box dinner sitting on each plate. Decorate a white gift box just the right size to hold a picnic dinner and fill each box with tissue, food, napkin, and some Christmas accessories like a small ornament, or candy cane and set on each plate. Sure to surprise your children and they will love all the delightful things to eat on their fancy picnic.

*Decorate a paper napkin with a holiday stamp. Stamp the edge or the middle of the napkin. If you like, you could use a fabric napkin. Tie the napkin with a raffia bow and place on a fancy holiday dinner plate.

*Tie several bells on a ribbon and tie it to the stem of the goblet.

*Cover your table with white quilt batting. Put various sizes of styrofoam balls on the table for snowballs and decorate with sleighs and handmade snowmen. There you have a frosty table setting.

*Use a neck scarf for a placemat and a mitten to put the silverware in.

Add candles and soft Christmas music in the background. Perfect setting to gather as a family and welcome in this joyous holiday season! Afterwards, read a special Christmas story by the light of the tree.

Take Time For A Family Tradition!

At Christmas Twigs, we believe in FAMILY! You know what they say, "The family that plays together, stays together." The holidays are fast approaching and now is a good time to prepare so that you can have fun as a family once the Christmas season arrives!

An Advent Calendar is a fun way to count down the days until Christmas Day. This tradition dates back to 19th Century Germany. Each day you can gather as a family to open a window and sing a Christmas carol together. Some calendars have chocolate tucked inside. If one calendar is not enough, get one for each of your children to open each day at the same time.

An Advent Calendar, can heighten the anticipation of the holidays as your family prepares for Christmas. This tradition will help to create fond memories for loved ones to cherish throughout the coming years.

Why not send one to Grandpa and Grandma to enjoy? Young and old alike will have fun with this time honored tradition! Give them as gifts to neighbors, friends, or school teachers. They make a cute decoration for home, office or the classroom.

As this tradition is passed along from your family to your children's and so on, this annual tradition will continue to make Christmas memories for many years to come. It's never too late to start a new tradition or continue an established one!