Things You'll Need:
- Christmas Gifts
- Gift Ribbons
- Ribbons
- Tissue Paper
- Gift Cards
- CD Players
- Christmas Stockings
- Christmas Tree Lights
- Christmas Tree Ornaments
- Christmas Trees
- Gift Bags
- Gift Bows
- Wrapping Paper
- Christmas CDs
- Tissue paper
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Step 1
Send Christmas cards to family and friends wishing them a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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Step 2
Set up a live or artificial Christmas tree in your home. Decorate it with ornaments and lights.
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Step 3
Hang mistletoe in a doorway. It is traditional for people to kiss when they stand underneath this small, scented sprig.
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Step 4
Place lights and other decorations on the outside of your house and on your outdoor shrubs and trees.
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Step 5
Buy gifts for family and friends and pile them under the tree.
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Step 6
Hang stockings from your mantel so Santa can leave little items inside when he visits.
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Step 7
Ask your children to write down a wish list of the toys they would like to receive.
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Step 8
Share the list with Santa Claus so he can fill their requests. Expect him to arrive on Christmas Eve in a sled drawn by reindeer, carrying a red sack filled with gifts.
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Step 9
Play Christmas music in your house to get in the holiday spirit; some popular choices include "Silent Night" and "Deck the Halls."
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Step 10
Prepare a huge Christmas feast with foods such as turkey, ham, stuffing and vegetables; serve mince pie for dessert. Include other favorite recipes from your childhood holiday meals.
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Step 11
Attend church on Christmas Eve.
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Step 12
Remember that the true meaning of the season is really about giving.
Comments
Anonymous said
on 12/20/2005 Here are some peculiar ways that we celebrate Christmas in the Dominican Republic:
1. In the Dominican Republic we start the Christmas celebration from the end of November and it includes a game called "Angelito," which is a sort of Secret Santa Gift Exchange in which every person picks a name from a hat or a bag and give gift to that person weekly per say, and at the end they give a most gift of most value with their name on it.
2. We also have "Las Mananitas," in which everybody goes to different houses and sing Christmas carols. After they had sing we offer a Sweetened Ginger Tea aka Te de Gengibre and the person that gets the Unsweetened Ginger tea is the person that gets the Christmas Carols next time and the ginger tea has to be made by him/her.
3. The kids have gifts 3 times:
a) Santa Claus or Nino Jesus on December 25th (no need for cookies and milk).
b) The Magic Kings or Reyes Magos on January 6th.
c) The Old Bethlehem Lady or Vieja Belen on Jan., 21st (kids have to leave water and grass for the donkey).
Anonymous said
on 12/9/2005 Christmas was for the family and religious services, but Boxing day was the day to celebrate with friends. Bosses and land owners would give holiday gifts to employee's which was the start of the holiday bonus.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 My family set up our manger cre'che on December 1st, with the Wise Men in another room. Then one of the children each day "walked" the wise men closer to the manger. They moved from a bookcase to a table top and even over the TV. Now my children walk the wise men.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Christmas time begins early in Germany. They celebrate Advent, the four Sundays before Christmas Eve. Each Sunday, a new candle in the Advent wreath is lit.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 On Christmas Eve we have a family dinner with potato soup, kielbasa, ham, herring, pierogiand sweet and sour cabbage. We pass around a blessed wafer and offer good wishes, then gather around the tree, exchange gifts and sing carols.