GET AID. Do not do everything on your own. If you have good friends and household close by, enlist their aid for whatever from decorating, to resolving Christmas cards and cooking. Doing Christmas Activities is more enjoyable when you do things together.
Tracking Santa's big trip is a terrific workout in location, cartography, distance, time, speed and temperature level zones. How far is it to the North Pole? What's the temperature at the North Pole? Does Santa have any daylight? How far does Santa have to travel? How fast is he going? What if Santa had to travel to the moon? Why can't we find Santa? Maybe he actually lives at the magnetic North Pole, which alters every year!
Organize visits to friends and family at the beginning of December and not in the week leading up to Christmas, that way you will get round to seeing everyone. Exchange bags of presents and have a long time to yourself just before Christmas.
For one, you will likely be amazed to learn that, instead of a white Christmas, you will remain in for a hot summer vacation. This is because of the truth that Australia depends on the southern hemisphere, where here seasons are reversed compared to to that of the northern countries. Therefore, while it is the winter season holidays in America, Christmas falls on the first day of summer season in the nation.
Get outside and enjoy it if you live in a snowy winter season wonderland! Invest an afternoon sledding. Cardboard works remarkably well if you do not have sleds. Construct snowmen in your front backyard, dig snow collapses the hills, and roll around to make snow angels. Fill up spray bottles with water and food coloring if you rolling in the snow is too much for you. Take the kids outside to "paint" the snow. Snow graffiti is fun and cleans up by itself!
There are various Christmas word games that you can play with kids. The finest part is that these enjoyable kids' Christmas activities are also academic so the kids can be finding out while they have a good time!