December Activites–A run down

Cooper pulled a new activity out of Jammer’s hat every day during the month of December to do.  So here is a random list of everything he did!

• Decorate the Christmas Tree and House and Front Porch.
• Go to the Santa  Clause parade.
• Color and Paint his own Christmas Wrapping paper
• Visit a few friends’ houses to sing Christmas carols and hand out cookies and hot chocolate.
• Listen to Christmas music and have a dance party.
• Host a Gingerbread decorating party.
• Take a picture in our Santa hats as a family – the sillier the better.
• Attend a Santa Claus Brunch.
• Host our Annual Wine and Cheese Family Christmas party.
• Take food and toys to a food bank/toy drive and talk about helping others.
• Drive around in the dark and look at Christmas lights.
• Go Christmas shopping together and buy mommy and daddy a gift.   Pick out a new family ornament for our tree.
• Read the Children’s story of Jesus being born on Christmas eve.
• Make and Decorate Christmas cookies
• Read the Night Before Christmas
• Have our own little Christmas eve mass to say thank you to god for a wonderful family and Christmas season.  Sign Silent Night and Away in a manager.
• Drink Egg Nog and wrap Christmas presents
• Write and mail a letter to Santa
• Buy and read a new Christmas book – Cooper picked out the Grinch that stole Christmas this year.
• Make a pinecone bird feeder and attach a note that says “Merry Christmas birdies!”
• Drink hot chocolate from Christmas mugs with whipped cream and sprinkles and eat Christmas cookies.
• Have a bubble bath by candle-light with Christmas music playing.
• Have a family movie night and watch Christmas movies.   Cooper watched 3 this year:  Frosty, Rudolph, and the Grinch that Stole Christmas.  Frosty was his favorite!  He cried really hard the first time when Frosty melted but loved it the next 2 times so much.
• Make pancake breakfast with Daddy
• Call our family members and sign Jingle Bells then hang up.
• Go sledding

He had so much  doing all this and more.   He LOVED the month of December.   Thanks Jammer for the great bag of activities!