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Christmas Eve Traditions: Things To Do for Magical Family Memories
Open a Gift - By the time Christmas Eve rolls around, we’ve been sitting on secret gifts for weeks! It’s no wonder we’re all so anxious for our loved ones to open just ONE gift! Opening a gift on Christmas eve is a very popular tradition for families in the U.S. (while a number of other countries open ALL of their gifts on Christmas eve!).
Go Look at Christmas Lights - Christmas Eve is the perfect time to go drive around (or walk) and look at the Christmas light displays in your community. We absolutely love this tradition!
Watch a Special Christmas Movie - Almost every family I know has that ONE particular Christmas movie that their family just loves. For us, it’s Home Alone. For my brother’s family, it’s Elf. And of course others can range from Die Hard to Miracle on 34th Street!
Read the Christmas Story in the Bible - Reading the story of Christ’s birth is a wonderful way to end the night before Christmas. A lot of times Christmas day is filled with presents, visiting family, and making a big dinner. So, it’s a good idea to take some time before the action-packed day to really soak in what the holiday is all about.
Have a Special Christmas Eve Dinner - Food is the basis of so many family traditions, so why not Christmas Eve? A friend of mine always had fondue with her family on Christmas Eve, which I absolutely love! I know some other families have a tradition of ordering Chinese take-out for Christmas Eve.
Play a Family Game - Getting together for some fun game time is the perfect way to set the tone of family togetherness. If you have a favorite family game, then Christmas Eve is a wonderful time to get together and play.
Open the Christmas Eve box - It’s basically just a designated box that you can reuse every year (this is sort of what makes it special) filled with some little things that you would probably give to the kids on Christmas Eve anyway. Some ideas of what to put in the box would be: Christmas pajamas, a Christmas book, maybe a little treat/candy/popcorn, a hot cocoa mix with a special mug.
A Story and Cider - What could be more lovely? Cozy up together by the fire with some warm cider and a favorite Christmas story.
Bake Cookies for Santa - We love making classic sugar cookies with icing for Santa. It’s easy and there’s nothing the kids love better than piling on heaps of sprinkles to decorate for Santa Claus.
All-day Pajama day with Games, Treats, and Crafts - Some families go all in on Christmas Eve every year for a fun-filled day of playing games, building puzzles, baking cookies and cakes, and making Christmas crafts of all sorts. All while wearing their matching Christmas pajamas, of course!
Ornament Exchange - I love this lovely and meaningful Christmas Eve tradition that I picked up from another family. They exchange new ornaments each year to represent their favorite memory of that year with each other.
Track Santa with Norad - Don’t stay up too late on Christmas Eve! You can track Santa with the Official NORAD Santa tracker to make sure the kids are headed off to bed before the big guy arrives!
Have a Christmas Song Karaoke Night - Break out the Karaoke machine (and maybe the earplugs, hehe) and invite your family to join in on a seriously fun Christmas song singalong. I guarantee this will be one of the Christmas Eve traditions that will be around for generations and will create memories to last a lifetime.
Host an Ugly Sweater Contest/Fashion Show - Who has the ugliest sweater? This is a fun game you can do every year and is a great option for families with older kids. If your group is too small for a contest to make sense, or if you’d rather avoid competitiveness on Christmas Eve, just make it a fashion show! (Source)
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Eve of Christmas Eve as today is the day myself and my sisters go out to dinner together and we did that tonight and I pay...they like this and tomorrow Christmas Eve Day me and my son will go to do last minute shopping, go and see the new Spider Man movie as we both are Marvel fans...then out to dinner together afterwards then come home he will get on his PS4 web site and me on King Community if all goes well.....😉😎♥️💯 maybe take a walk since it's 60 degrees feirihiet not bad for winter weather.....
Thanks for the tag @Diamond Lim
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Christmas eve we all gather at my moms house to open gifts and have a dinner then Christmas morning we all have gifts and dinner at our own houses like in the morning I'll get up at 4 in morning put my turkey on to bake I'll wake my daughter and we will open gifts then we will eat dinner when it's done then we will go to my husband's moms house to open gifts and eat dinner then when I get back home we have a very special movie we watch as a family we have done this same things for as long as I can remember I just kept the traditions going with my kids and their families
From me and mine to you and yours have a safe happy and blessed holiday season everyone
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Hi @Elsa
When I was little we would go to church in the evening and go to bed when we got back and around midnight my dad would ring bell’s pretending to be Santa and we would run upstairs hoping to see him, but we always missed him 😂 We celebrate what’s called a Réveillon in french. We’d open presents and after my mom would set some food and we had a meal.
I prefer to wait until Christmas morning with my kids. On the Eve, we watch a movie ( usually Die Hard or Christmas with the Kranks ).
Happy Holidays everyone, stay safe 🥰🐰
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@Diamond Lim thanks for the tag.
@Elsa I finally got around to read about the different traditions families have for Christmas Eve. Our traditions were passed down to us from our parents and grandparents. The family gathers in a family member’s house 🏡. We have a big dinner, listen to music and share our stories and experiences throughout the year. Towards the end of the evening we’ll sing some traditional folklore music from the Island 🏝.
