One of these activities is decorating the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree occupies a central spot and is the most visible display of Christmas in most homes. Unlike in other countries, most American homes do not have a representation of the Nativity scene, which is more likely to be located at churches.

As soon as the Christmas season begins on the day after Thanksgiving, families will begin their search for the perfect Christmas tree. This in itself can become a memorable activity as children may accompany family members to places like a Christmas tree farm to select a tree.

Once a real or artificial tree is selected, then it’s an exciting activity for the entire family to play a part in decorating the tree. Manufactured decorations come in many shapes and forms. But a special memory is created when family members make a special ornament for the Christmas tree, or contribute one or more keepsake items to decorate the Christmas tree. It then becomes a ritual each year for those particular items to be placed on the Christmas tree although other decorations may change in coming years.

Another activity that can help to create special memories at Christmas is baking cookies. Along with popular gingerbread cookies, using cookie cutters to make special holiday-shaped cookies is also practiced a lot in households. Based on the ages of children, they can help in the actual baking activity by measuring and mixing some ingredients, or, younger children can sprinkle sugar on the cookies or decorate them with icing when they are finished. Helping in this activity can also be educational as parents can use the activity of measuring and figuring out equivalent measures to teach fractions and other
mathematical elements.

An activity that is related to food which also helps to create memories during the Christmas season is making fruit and goody baskets, which are filled with candies, baked items and other treats for loved ones, their special friends, neighbors, teachers or for charity. Items such as goody baskets make especially wonderful Christmas gifts because they are home-made. That quality often makes them more treasured than a Christmas present that is bought at the store.

Because Christmas is the season of goodwill and good cheer, it is very important to reach out to family, loved ones and friends during the season. The busy lives that many people lead today often leaves them little or no time during the year to be in frequent contact with family and friends who are located far away, or even others who live within a reasonable distance in the same or a neighboring state, for example.

It is therefore very common during Christmas to send a Christmas or holiday greeting card to those individuals. Along with the pleasant memory of receiving the card, there may be a short letter included that gives a brief account of any significant event in the individual’s life or with members of the family. That makes sending and receiving Christmas greeting cards more memorable.

Then there’s probably the most anticipated activity of Christmas – finding out what Christmas gift Santa brought on Christmas Eve. While adults also look forward with much anticipation to see what Christmas gifts they will get, it’s really the children who get the most delight from receiving presents at Christmas. The carefully planned actions to hide Christmas presents from children and then to magically place them under the Christmas tree to be found on Christmas morning is one of the most wonderful ways to create unforgettable memories for children at Christmas.

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It’s time for Halloween
Most children love all things Halloween. As adults, we assume it’s because Halloween means candy and children generally love candy. But many children love more than just the abundance of candy at Halloween time. They really get into the ghoulish aspect of the holiday and delight in the displays of goopy brains and squishy body parts. Halloween games, therefore, can be really fun and goopy, if you wish. The kids will go with it, don’t worry.

1. First up, a brain game.

There’s a fun game on store shelves where you pick through a rubber “brain” to figure out what’s in it. You can create this easily yourself. Make some jello and fill it with a variety of items, like gummy worms and other gummy candies, some small candy and trinkets and other items. Tell the children to root around in the bowl of jello (call it a “brain” if this will get the kids more interested) to figure out what’s in it. It’s goopy and messy and kids love it. Best yet, color the jello black so it’s too dark to see what’s inside and it looks more like goopy brain matter (the way kids see it, anyway).

2. Kids love the spaghetti game.

Be sure they are wearing a smock over their clothes or are wearing play clothes before playing this game. Make a big bowl of spaghetti and fill it with all kinds of items, like plastic bugs, gummy worms and other items that might feel a bit strange. Make the children feel around in the bowl of spaghetti and identify the items they feel. Once they are done and cleaned up, have them list as many items as they can remember. Whoever gets the most items listed (and right) gets a prize. Spaghetti, anyone?

3. Guess What’s Inside The Scarry Box

Another similar game that’s always popular is to take a cardboard box and paint it black, both the inside and outside. Carve a small hole in the top, really just large enough for the children to get their hands into, and fill the box with a variety of items. They can be related to Halloween (like a small pumpkin) or not (wrapped Tootsie rolls or a tiny toy Hummer car). Have the children guess what’s inside the box and award the box itself to the child who guesses the most number of items correctly. To make this goopy and silly, be sure to include some items that might feel like body parts or brain matter.

4. Write and Retell Scarry Story

Kids love creating silly fictional stories, often with absurd plotlines. Halloween is the optimum time to let them run wild with their imaginations. Have them spend a bit of time writing out the scariest story they can think of. Some children might need some direction not to make it ridiculously grotesque, so use caution with these children in your clarification of this assignment. Once the stories are written, have the children hand them in and then have a guest reader for each one of them. Each child will read the story with as much dramatization as they can muster. Once the story is read, everyone has to guess who wrote the story. The writer should play along, otherwise everyone will know it was their story! The winner is the child who wrote a story so intriguing and unusual that nobody knew it was his or hers!

5. Halloween Words Games

Kids love the word find games when you give them a word or words relating to a holiday or something else and have them find words within those words. In this case, give them Halloween-related words and ask them to find as many scary words as they can. For example, you might give them the word “Halloween” and see how many scary words they can make from the letters. Or you could give them a series of words and let them rearrange the letters in all of the words to create scary words, or even create a story from the scary words. Put a time limit on this game and award a prize for the child who creates the most words in the least amount of time.

Halloween games are a kind of learning activities for kids.  Kids love creativity and imagination and games foster friendship and teamwork too.

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Some Kids Holidays Topics:

Selecting Travel Destinations with Kids in Mind

Kids Sport for Holiday Activities

Eco Friendly Holidays

Going to the Beach

Beach vacation is the favorite vacation for family.  Kids can  have sun, water, nature and fun all together. You may decide to stay at the hotels near the beach so you can watch the sunrise and sunset.

Water Park

Water play is always kids favorite.  Water rides and slides add excitement. Watch your kids that some slides are too slippery.

National Park

Kids learn about the ecosystem and habitats with plants and small animals or insects found in the nature.

Going for Mountain Holiday

Kids can watch from close distance how mountain looks like. Taking a walk or cycling and breathe fresh air.

Going to Waterfall

Kids will love to hear the thunder of water sound and the splash. Don’t forget to use life-jacket for your kids to keep them safe and watch them all the time. Some stones may be slippery.

So, what would you plan for your kids summer holidays?  Go outdoor to enjoy sun, water, nature and have fun.

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Kids like to do what adults or parents do. Plan the school holiday with cooking activities for your kids. Kids are eager little helpers and cooking brings benefits for them. Take your kids for shopping at the supermarket to select the ingredients. Let them play a major role in cooking and parents shall watch them.  Kids learn living skill from cooking.

Benefits of cooking with kids:

• Kids learn about maths such as measuring, estimates to cut the food into certain length.
• Kids learn about science, how liquid and solid ingredients mix together to form the dough in baking cookies.
• Don’t forget to educate about nutrition and healthy food.
• Picky eaters will learn to like the food because they’re involved in food preparation and cooking.
• Kids can add their creativity such as decorating the food or cookies.

Practice Easy Cooking With Kids

Kids like colorful food, mix and decorate things. You can buy  vegetables with bright color such as carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and different kinds of fruits.  Let kids cut the vegetables and fruits into small pieces. This is what they can do:

1. to arrange a mix of vegetables and fruits on the plate

2. to make rainbow fruits sticks with  dips such as yoghurt.

Kids like to bake as well. They like to cut the dough with cookies cutter. My kids told me that cookies dough was much better than play dough and they liked to eat fresh cookies from the oven. You can mix the dough with cheese, banana or put some chocolate chips on the cookies.

Find out more fun children recipes.

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Kids like to make crafts. Stories scrapbook is an example of kids creativity. They put things together and they make up a story or tell a story.  Stories scrapbook can be used as learning resources for kids. Kids learn and practise  to write stories. Below is stories scrapbook done by my girl. She personalize the person in the story, that’s her friend, Kim Jenny. She visualized their activities by drawing pictures. She gave each of the girls in her class a story scrapbook and each scrapbook has a different story with the child’s name.

Parents, you can encourage kids to do stories scrapbook. The stories can be from their favorite story book or family’s holiday with photos and mementos that you  had during holidays.

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Easter day will fall on 24th April this year. There are plenty of things that parents can plan with their kids during a short break Easter holiday.  Egg and bunny are the Easter symbols that kids are familiar with.  There is a belief that all life comes from an egg and egg is seen as a symbol of universe and the continuation of life.

Some popular Easter holiday activities that you can do with your kids are:

1. Making Easter Crafts.
2. Easter printables, coloring, quiz and games
3. Indoor or Outdoor Easter Activities

Making Easter Craft

Coloring & Decorating Eggs: use food coloring & origami paper to decorate the eggs is the most easy way for making colorful Easter eggs (the idea is from DesignMom.com).

Bunny Cupcakes

This is the idea from Thirty Handmade Days.com. Add these additional items to decorate the cupcakes into bunnies: cotton balls for tail and feet, candy beads for eyes and nose, bamboo forks or ice cream sticks to hold bunny ears and whipped cream frosting to make a white bunny face.

Easter Printables, Quiz and Games

Download Easter Printables, Easter Quiz and Games or you can give your kids Easter coloring card so they will have fun to color their Easter cards.

Indoor or Outdoor Easter Activities

Easter eggs treasure hunt: you can write the name of child on the Easter egg and ask each child to find the egg which has his/her name.

Easter egg games:

Easter egg spoon race, holding the spoon with an egg on it while walking to the finish line.

Easter egg roll game, use the stick to roll the egg to the finish line.

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Get Flowers for your number one performer.

Have fun for endless Christmas holiday activities for kids:

1. DLTK’s Christmas Activities for children: crafts, coloring sheets, worksheets, games  and more.
2. Activity Village, hundreds of Christmas activities for children: printables, origami, stories and poems.
3. Enchanted Learning, Christmas crafts and printables for children.

Don’t have time to go shopping? Check out for online shopping, everything that you need for Christmas at Christmas Corner

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