How to make Christmas Eve more exciting for your child
Seven ways to make Christmas Eve even more fun for your child.
It’s almost Christmas Eve and your children can’t contain their excitement any longer. Why not make it even more fun and exciting for them?
You want to give them the same feeling you had as a child, so what better than to follow these ideas given by Mirror.com.
Here are seven ways to make it even more fun for your child:
1. Magic key
If you don’t have a chimney, let the kids leave a ‘magic key’ outside for Santa. If you don’t have a key, let them decorate a card key with ‘magic’ glitter.
2. Reindeer dust
Turn some ordinary items into something magical by combining oats with glitter, which gives you reindeer dust. The children can then sprinkle this mixture outside to guide the reindeer to your home. This also makes a great snack that helps them fly.
3. Santa runway
Create a magical runway for Santa by lighting some lanterns and placing them outside. This will guarantee a visit from Santa.
4. Hang the stockings
Leave your stockings until Christmas Eve and hang them up with the children before they go to bed – it will add to the excitement of the evening.
If you don’t have stockings or have nowhere to hang them, have the kids place a sack at the end of their bed. Pillowcases work just as well.
5. The Night Before Christmas
What better book to read on Christmas Eve than The Night Before Christmas? It’s the perfect way to get your little ones excited for a visit from the man in the big red suit. Read it as a bedtime story, snuggled up as a family, and it will become the perfect Christmas tradition you’ll want to keep every year.
6. Jingle bells
If you’ve got a bell lying around the house, jingle it gently outside when the children have gone to bed. Chances are they’ll be awake and will hear it, and in the morning will be convinced they heard Father Christmas arriving at your home.
7. Letter from Santa
This is one for a magical Christmas morning. Leave a note from Santa next to the remnants of the food and drink you put out for Santa and the reindeer, so your little one has something to treasure. Remember to put in a hoof-print from Rudolph.
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/9-easy-ways-make-christmas-4853571
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