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Friday, September 10, 2010

Letters To Santa, Shopping, Cooking, & Other Ways To Involve Kids At Christmas

Christmas should be always memorable – especially for kids. Children must be made to feel important. They most of all must enjoy the Christmas Season. Families can help children feel special by including them in various activities and events. The kids can write letters to Santa for themselves as well as for each member of the family. They can explain in their letters what their father, mother or other sibling needs and wants. If the kids are allowed to give their own ideas, they will feel very proud on Christmas morning when they see the gifts they asked for being opened. They will feel it is because of them that each member received what they wanted for Christmas. This will help make Christmas memories that will last for the kids and for all family members.

Bring the kids along when buying stuff for Christmas.  Leave them guessing on where you are going. This will bring excitement to them. Kids are known to be very creative. They can pick things that are very nice. All year round parents have taken control of their kids. Give them the chance to take a bit of control during the Christmas season. Very often kids are able to impress adults with their creativity. Kids can pick out Christmas trees and other ornaments that will look beautiful in their homes. Just make sure that they pick the right color combinations. During this time parents must act as the kids’ trusted assistants, not their guards. Let them say that they were the ones who chose the Christmas Tree and the ornaments. 

The kids must be praised for the wonderful things that they did. Parents must realize that Christmas day is really a momentous one for them. They feel it much more than adults. It’s a meaningful day for them and that is how it should be. To kids Christmas is magical. After all, little children believe in Santa Claus and the reindeer flying through the sky and delivering toys around the world. What a wonderful thought! Keep that magic alive for as long as possible. If kids can believe in Santa and Rudolph they can believe anything is possible – and that means they will believe they can do anything they set their minds to. They won’t have the constraints put on them like we do as adults when we think about our future and what we want.

 When mothers are in the kitchen preparing Christmas food, the kids should right there helping, they will really like it and it will bring mother and child closer. The kids can brag about their cooking skills to their guests and family and friends. Christmas is one time when children must be allowed to have bragging rights - at least for this season. Give them chores that they can do, little things like mixing the sauces or putting the ingredients in the food. Don’t let them do the hard stuff like chopping because they can get hurt.

It’s wonderful for them to actively participate because this will make them like an essential part of the family that helps in making the holiday special. It helps to strengthen the family bonds for everyone. They will treasure every moment of it. Kids will fully understand and acknowledge the real meaning of Christmas when they are given an active part in the preparations. This will be a fun loving Christmas for kids if they are allowed to be a part of every element of the preparation, planning, activities and events. Parents will feel elated that they have allowed their kids to show their creativeness in all the things they did for the Christmas Season.

Kids must write thank you letters to Santa for all the gifts that they and their families receive.  These thank you letters and other letters to Santa must be placed in a prominent place within the Christmas Tree. The letters can be decorated nicely so they too become an attractive holiday adornment. Christmas will be more delightful when kids are given the opportunity to show their skills and talents.

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"7 Simple Techniques for Keeping Your Child Believing in Santa Claus”

Many parents love to see the joy and excitement Santa Claus can bring to their child. For many people, their childhood memories of Santa Claus are the best Christmas memories they have. Keeping your child believing in Santa, however, can be a daunting task. Children are smart these days, and some of the old Santa tricks just don’t get by them anymore. Many children are perpetually plagued with the question, “Is there a Santa Claus?”

Every family may have slightly different Christmas traditions with regards to Santa Claus, but there are some very easy things any person can do to keep the belief in Santa at an all time high. The following 7 techniques will keep your child believing in the magic and wonderment of Santa Claus and you don’t have to be familiar with the history of Santa Claus to apply them.

1) Have your child write a Santa Letter. This can be a simple letter that your child can write to Santa Claus. Children absolutely love to write a letter to Santa, but they occasionally need a little parental guidance to pull it off.

Help your child include a special list of gifts they desire for Christmas into the Santa letter. Many children enjoy getting more creative by drawing or cutting out pictures that represent the gifts they want.

Once the child’s Santa letter is finished, simply mail it to the North Pole. Mail it to the following Santa Claus address: Santa Claus, 1 Candy Cane Lane, North Pole 00001. Don’t bother using a return address, you wouldn’t want it to return as ‘undeliverable’ for any reason.

2) Write a Letter from Santa and have your child receive it in the mail. Create a personalized letter from Santa by directly mentioning your child’s name and certain information about your child in the text. This will make for a much more believable Santa letter. Be sure to make these letters from Santa different for each child in the same household. The child will have no doubt that Santa Claus is coming to town after they receive their personalized letter from Santa!

“I can honestly state as a parent that the personalized letter from Santa has single handedly restored my son’s belief! The look of shock and amazement on his face when he got an ‘authentic letter from Santa’ quickly abolished any doubt he previously had about Santa Claus.”

Print the Santa letter on authentic looking letterhead, as this will help to reinforce the believability. Many different styles of paper can be found at your local office supply store.

You can add to the fun by getting your letter from Santa postmarked at the North Pole. Simply send your Santa letter inside another sealed, stamped envelope to: North Pole Christmas Cancellation, Postmaster, 5400 Mail Trail, Fairbanks, AK 99709-9999. (It needs to arrive by December 15th)

Many parents add a certificate for being on Santa’s “Nice List” along with the Santa Letter for added effect. Another great item to add with the Santa letter is a Santa Claus coloring sheet. Combining the personalized Santa letter, the nice certificate, and the Santa Claus coloring sheet is a sure fire method for keeping your child believing.

3) Have your child leave milk and cookies out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. This is simple enough to do with your child. It lets your child know YOU still believe, too. Make it a bonding experience for you and your child by baking the cookies together on Christmas Eve. Don’t underestimate how powerful this can be for creating joyful memories of Santa Claus, for both you and your child. Did you know that Santa’s favorite cookie recipe is Chocolate Chip?

Put the fresh cookies on a plate next to a glass of cold milk. You can even put a short letter to Santa Claus next to the cookies and milk. These tasty treats will give Santa the energy he needs to continue traveling to the millions of other households awaiting his arrival.

Don’t forget to leave some crumbs on the table Christmas morning. Your child will feel honored that Santa Claus ate the whole plate of cookies and drank all of the milk before rushing on his way.

4) On Christmas Eve, have your child sprinkle reindeer food on the lawn. Santa Claus gets milk and cookies on Christmas Eve, but what about Rudolph and the rest of the joyful gang? What do they eat? Well, reindeer food, of course!

You can make a batch of environmentally friendly reindeer food with common grocery items such as oats or granola. (Do not use potentially hazardous items, such as glitter in your reindeer food. Although this may make the reindeer food appear to be magical in some way, it can be extremely dangerous if ingested by small children, should they decide to ‘sample’ the reindeer food. It can also be potentially hazardous to the small animals outside such as rabbits, dogs, or cats that may eat the food.)

Once you have the reindeer food mixed up, walk outside with your child on Christmas Eve night and explain the importance of making sure Santa’s sleigh team stays fed. Sprinkle a small amount onto your yard near bushes or trees.

This healthy reindeer snack will give Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer the nourishment they need to continue flying Santa’s heavy sleigh into the night. Your child will be proud for helping Santa Claus on his journey, and is sure to raise the belief in Rudolph and the other reindeer as well.

5) Leave Santa Claus tracks in your house on Christmas Eve. Being sure to not stain your carpet, leave some dirty boot prints by the fireplace (or doorway). Be sure to draw attention to the Santa Claus footprints on Christmas morning. To a child, this is solid evidence that Santa had been to their house.

6) A month or so after Christmas, send your child a postcard from Santa Claus on vacation. This not only keeps your child believing, but reminds your child that Santa is in their hearts all year long. It also answers the common question posed by children after Christmas, “Where is Santa Claus now?”

Be sure to make the postcard from somewhere very warm and sunny. After all, Santa does need a break from all that North Pole snow.

7) Mail your child a birthday greeting from Santa Claus. This technique works in tandem with the personalized Santa Letter you mailed your child previously. Mailing your child a simple birthday card from Santa is an excellent way to keep your child’s belief high throughout the year. Your child will think, “Wow! Santa actually knows my birthday!” The shock on your child’s face will be priceless.

Parents that have extremely intelligent kids or kids that are getting slightly older will genuinely need to utilize all 7 techniques mentioned above to keep their child believing in Santa Claus.

These techniques will assure your child is one of the millions of children that write Santa Letters each and every holiday season… one of the millions of children that believe wholeheartedly in Santa Claus.

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