We recommend: 8 Christmas and New Year traditions that should be created with children this year

Christmas and New Year are more than gifts under the Christmas tree and a festive table with champagne.

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In the midst of New Year's hustle and bustle, we forget the most important thing - to make Christmas and New Year soulful, full of meaning and traditions. We suggest using this special period with benefit. Namely, create several family traditions that you (and possibly your grandchildren) will follow from year to year.

These ideas are easy to implement, and they will not take too much time and money from you. But each of these ideas can add a little festive magic that you and your children really look forward to every year.

I'M BAKED WITH COOKIES

Bake cookies together with your children, or organize a party and invite friends and relatives, suggesting that they bring pastries with them. What could be better than a meeting with old friends and loved ones during the Christmas and New Year holidays? Make such meetings your tradition.

WE ARE WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE

Choose one festive and good movie that you want to watch with the whole family. And review it every hour. It may seem banal, but in fact, all family members will be united by this New Year's tradition, and watching the film will remind you of happy winter holidays in the family circle - it will become a blissfully nostalgic event.

CREATING SANTA'S FOOTPRINTS

Delight your little children with an atmosphere of magic. Take daddy's shoes and some flour that can be mixed with baby powder. Make an imitation of a path with the footprints of Santa Claus at the front door. With each passing year, children will certainly begin to understand what the secret is. But it is quite possible that this tradition will also become a tradition of their future family.

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GETTING A COLLECTION OF CHRISTMAS TOYS

Collect your family collection of Christmas toys. Let each family member hang an ornament on the tree, which he will hang every hour. Christmas toys can be chosen in accordance with the events that occurred during the hour. For example, if your daughter started playing a musical instrument this year, you can celebrate this event with a themed toy.

WE GIVE GIFTS TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM

Explain to your children that the holidays are not only gifts, but also a time to be kind to other people. Get your kids involved in charity and good deeds. For example, offer the child to collect unnecessary toys and give them to children who need them. Encourage all family members to do good deeds.

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WE TAKE A FAMILY PHOTO

Take a family photo every hour on the same day and save the pictures. The main thing is to take a photo, and then they will print the ego. Recently, we rarely print photos and prefer to store them in the phone. Make it a tradition to create an album with your family portraits in a printed form. After all, it is not at all old-fashioned and very nostalgic.

DRESSING UP IN COUPLE'S PAJAMAS

This may sound silly, but it's actually a very fun family tradition. Buy identical pajamas for all family members, including children, grandparents, which you will wear every year on the night before Christmas or New Year. You can also take funny photos and view them every hour during the holiday season.

VISIT A CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR'S FAIR

Make visiting the Christmas market a family tradition. It doesn't matter where you decide to go, because the tradition is not in the place you visit, but in the fact that every year you spend time together in interesting places, where the festive atmosphere of Christmas and New Year reigns.