Christmas Tree Picnic & Christmas Traditions
Celebrating the Christmas Season with Christmas Traditions like an Advent Countdown, Gingerbread, and a Christmas Tree Picnic.
I have started a couple of Christmas Traditions for our small family of five that I must keep up now or my little poppets will be ever so disappointed. We love to celebrate the Holiday Season with a Christmas Tree Picnic as one of our favorite Christmas Traditions.
One of the holiday traditions I keep alive is the countdown of Advent. Last year I purchased these adorable little buckets and placed a small treat or gift in each bucket for each day of Advent. This year I simply did not want to get the kiddos a trinket for each day because our home is full up of trinkets and toys.
Instead, I opted to print out personal messages for the little to read each day. Some days there were adventures, some days were simple tasks, one day we were to decorate a gingerbread house and today was a picnic by the Christmas tree.
Countdown to Advent Buckets
My littles simply adore nutcrackers as much as I do. Where ever we go they are searching out new nutcrackers and begging me to purchase 'just one more'. My son turned 11 a week ago and we had a small celebration at home. I'm really trying to tailor down the birthdays as my children grow older. I know everyone always says this, but where the heck did 11 years just go?
Christmas Gingerbread House and Tree
Christmas Tree Picnic
My children were so overjoyed by the idea! The picnic was so lovely and peaceful. My husband put on holiday music and the girls were dancing around while eating their picnic dinner. My husband even commented that he missed these picnics, letting the children know that I used to have picnics prepared for him and me all the time "before you were all born".
When the Christmas tree is up, simply place a blanket near the tree, turn off the lights and turn on your tree lights and have a picnic. Soft Christmas tree lights, great food, and special people to enjoy it with!
