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" 1. On the fridge, post a holiday-gift wish list for every family member. 2. Each year let the kids pick out one ornament to buy. 3. E-mail Santa at santaclaus.com. 4. Capture fun holiday moments: Place disposable cameras all over the house. 5. Have the kids stage a reenactment of the Christmas or Hanukkah story.  6. Give small 1st-of-December gifts to family members. 7. Go to a tree farm and cut down your own evergreen. 8. Host a holiday hair-wrap party for your daughter&amp;#039;s friends. 9. Enjoy wine and cheese while you and your guy fill the stockings. 10. Remind Santa to write a thank-you note for the milk and cookies. 11. Have the kids leave a bowl of baby carrots on the lawn for the reindeer. 12. Buy everyone striped long johns (hannaandersson.com). 13. Create a Kwanzaa family-history book. For details, see holidays.kaboose.com. 14. Grab hot cocoa and go caroling. 15. Attend a religious service entirely different from your own. 16. Leave &amp;quot;Ho, ho, ho, it&amp;#039;s off to the mall we go&amp;quot; on your answering machine. 17. Ask grandparents to recall their holiday memories on a tape recorder. 18. Love advent calendars? Find cool ones at playmobil.com. 19. Tour the neighborhood in search of dramatic decorations.  20. Ask each family member to write a verse for a special holiday poem. 21. Let the kids hand out the gifts on Christmas morning. 22. Open presents slowly, so everyone has time to &amp;quot;ooh&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ahh.&amp;quot; 23. Call your chamber of commerce to track down any holiday festivals. 24. Turn out all the lights, then get dazzled by your sparkling tree. --Charlotte Latvala Visions of Sugar-plums Danced in Their Heads... We asked our readers on Facebook about their favorite Christmas activities for kids. Here&amp;#039;s what they told us: &amp;quot;Allowing them to help hang the stockings and singing carols!&amp;quot; \u2014Shantae Shalise Esannason &amp;quot;Chestnuts over an open fire \u2014 they really are awesome! Try them! Popcorn strings, singing carols to shut-ins, baking cookies together, thinking of others by helping them with their chores, errands, and to-do lists. Kids are sponges, they learn by seeing and doing what you do.&amp;quot; \u2014Patty Gregoire Armstrong &amp;quot;Making homemade Christmas ornaments, watching Christmas movies, and baking cookies!&amp;quot; \u2014Jessica Miller Calimer &amp;quot;My family used to go for a walk, half an hour before opening the presents. My parents called it &amp;#039;looking for Christkind&amp;#039; (I&amp;#039;m German, we don&amp;#039;t have Santa). When we&amp;#039;re home again, it was there and left the presents. I loved this traditional walk.&amp;quot; \u2014Daniela K-Punkt &amp;quot;We have an indoor picnic on Christmas Eve. We make nachos, chicken fingers, poppers, potato skins, etc., and watch all of the old Christmas shows on DVD, like Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and of course, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Even though my boys are now 17 and 20, they still look forward to this every year.&amp;quot; \u2014Amy Patterson McPherson &amp;quot;My family&amp;#039;s Christmas tradition is to play classic Christmas music while we decorate our tree. Hot chocolate and freshly bake cookies are our treat during our little festivity. Another family favorite that my kids always look forward to is the fact that everyone gets to open one gift on Christmas Eve.&amp;quot; \u2014Amina Wilton &amp;quot;We heat with coal, so on Christmas Eve, we hid &amp;#039;early gift&amp;#039; packages of various sizes filled with coal, and had our five children search the house for them. After finding their packages, they came back to the tree, and everyone opened their &amp;#039;early gift&amp;#039; together. The look on all of their faces was priceless as our 3-year-old screamed in delight, &amp;#039;You were all naughty, but I was nice!&amp;#039; She received a coloring book and crayons from Santa!&amp;quot; \u2014Fran Ramirez &amp;quot;Chocolate Advent calendar from Trader Joe&amp;#039;s. Super fun and only 99 cents!&amp;quot; \u2014Tina Botos Million "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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