Let's Celebrate 01-Dec-2011
Do you ever wonder what other people do at Christmas time or over the holiday season?
Kids on the Coast wanted to find out what our Facebook “likers” enjoyed doing each year. Below is a selection of some of the many interesting and unusual holiday traditions. Check out our Facebook page or join a discussion on our website for more!
Wendy: Every Christmas Eve I read my girls the Aussie Night before Christmas.
Sharon: We string up an advent calendar of socks/stockings etc. all numbered from 1 to 25. Then from the first of Dec our assigned Christmas elf comes and leaves the kids a clue to a treasure (usually a chocolate Santa or a Christmas tree decoration, small toy). He also tells us what he has been up to on that day i.e. today we had to wash the sleigh & brush all the reindeers, but the best thing about today when Mrs Claus baked some Christmas cookies & whipped up some eggnog.
Melissa: We have got to have leg ham on toast on Christmas morning
- my dad’s mum used to buy us those nougat puddings from Darrell lea
- when she died, my mum did & now my girls get them.
Kazzy: Always have to have roses chocolates, Christmas themed treats made by the kids and of course the roast turkey... We have done this every year dating back to my great grandmother.
Linda: In the lead up to Christmas we do a variety of Christmas activities. Last year we made a gingerbread house. We usually go to a carols night (but not last year due to the rain and storms); see Christmas lights and the kids are usually involved in a Sunday school nativity play at church. Christmas morning the kids (and parents) see what is in their stockings. Then it is ham and eggs for breakfast before heading to church. After church we then open the rest of the presents with the wider family, before enjoying a roast lunch with all the trimmings followed by
plum pudding and custard. Yum!
Julie: Elves arrive in our house on Dec 1st, and then leave with Santa on Dec 25... they get up to all sorts of mischief when we are asleep... found them making pikelets, photocopying their butts, decorating the tree with the families undies...
Briallyn: From the time the tree goes up to the time it comes down on New Year’s Day the rule is Aussie Christmas books and carols must be played and read on a daily basis! I also like to make a tropical Christmas wreath for the front door. We make it out of the palm seed fronds that drop to the ground… sprayed white or silver and decorated with seashells or Christmas balls, whatever takes our fancy!
Donagh: We have some lovely traditions in our household - we don’t buy any presents for each other - we buy one for ourselves from Santa - we all put money in for food and drinks and we just enjoy being together. We have champagne cocktails for breakfast. We have our honey glazed ham and peanut butter glazed pork with all the trimmings. We make a huge chocolate Santa Cake for desert.... and then of course like everyone else sleep or go to the beach!
Peter: Our family now lives all over Australia and we rarely get together each Christmas. We have started a new tradition of Skyping at the same time, so we can all open our present from each other via the webcam. Not as good as in person, but it is still fun to see the delight on the receivers face!
