5 Proposals To Spend A Fun Christmas With Children

This year has been especially complex and hard for everyone. As a result of the health and economic crisis, both adults and children have gone through very complex emotional processes and our lives, in many aspects, have taken a radical turn.

This “new normal” that has been established in our society, although necessary, creates moments of anxiety and stress for almost all of us. Against this background, the next Christmas holidays appear to us as a propitious moment to carry out, as a family, a process of emotional healing.

To help create a festive atmosphere that helps provide much-needed well-being, we can do a large number of activities. Here are some ideas for children to enjoy this Christmas 2020.

5 proposals for children to have fun this Christmas

Together we can do activities to rest, relax and restore our emotional balance. In this way, by supporting each other, talking, having fun and reducing the tension of the whole year, we will be able to face the events of the coming months with better emotional health.

• Travel around the world

Most of us, due to restrictions, will not be traveling this Christmas. However, why not bring the trip home?

Let’s organize several thematic days this Christmas, one per continent.

Each member of the family can take care of a certain country (if our children are very young, we will do this together). We can investigate the gastronomy of the country and prepare the dishes that we most want. It is also very fun to read books and watch videos about their traditions for this end of the year, their customs, their music, their dances. In addition, on a map, you can mark your route, calculate distances, talk about numerous topics such as geography, geology, history, gastronomy, etc.

• Virtual party

Taking advantage of the advantages that technology offers us, we can carry out family gatherings that will not be able to be live. To turn these meetings into emotionally positive moments, the distance can be bridged with imagination and enthusiasm.

How about you agree to decorate the rooms in a similar way? To eat the same and toast with the same brand of cava? What if you dress to match? Enjoy the conversation, try to laugh together and share bonds of affection and mutual protection.

• Homemade horseback riding

Girls and boys, and many adults, love to go to the Three Kings Parade in their towns and cities. This year, we will hardly be able to do it, but nobody is stopping us from organizing our own home parade.
Among all the members of the family, you can prepare fun costumes with objects and clothes that you find around the house. Also, you can cook healthy sweets and a special Three Kings snack.

On the day of your ride, organize a home tour and enjoy a relaxed and fun family time.

In addition, you can use your imagination and create yourself the gifts that you are going to throw: drawings, crafts, gift vouchers of “voucher for” (a kiss, a massage, etc.). You can even put together a Christmas carol playlist and add your own narration to it.

• Christmas 2020, our movie

How about you make your own Christmas movie? Among all you can write, draw a storyboard, write it , act, assemble, add sondo effects, music, etc.
If you want more people to participate, you can ask friends and family to help you. Hold virtual meetings, show them the project, contribute ideas, even record their parts and send them to you.

There are many programs that will help you record and edit your own movie. In addition to being fun and creative, this is a very interesting cooperative activity to pass the time, learn to organize, to dialogue and share ideas.

• Everyone laugh!

Laughter facilitates an emotional discharge that helps us fight stress, relax, feel better. Let’s find a few minutes a day to laugh together. Word games (tongue twisters), funny books and movies, anecdotes from your family life, board games, mime, puppets. There are many ways in which you can laugh and enjoy your company together.
And if you can’t think of how, you can just start laughing and you’ll see how your mirror neurons will do the rest and, in a short time, you’ll all be laughing out loud.