Holiday Traditions: Something Old, Something New

Family traditions are what the holidays are all about. Creating these family traditions with your children during the holiday season is definitely a tradition in itself! Each year, thousands of families celebrate the holidays with old traditions – and, quite often, they try out a new tradition or two, as well. I’m challenging everyone this year to focus on mixing the old traditions with a brand new family tradition!

A look at our “old traditions”? How can we make them “new”?

Decorating the tree as a family…bring out the old decorations, but then add in some new ones to make the tree look different this year! Make some bows with the Bowdabra to decorate the tree with, or turn some old ornaments into new ones with mini-bows made with the mini-Bowdabra.

Bake the traditional Christmas breads, pies and cookies, but add in some other favorites, like cupcakes, for the children to decorate. Wouldn’t Santa just love cupcakes, instead of cookies, for Christmas this year?

Listen to Christmas tunes…but, this year, listen to some of the new tunes by new artists that your children are listening to on the radio.

Watch an oldie-but-goodie holiday movie with your children and then watch a new one!

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About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com