What are your Christmas traditions?

Can you believe that there are less than 100 days until Christmas? I've noticed that Pinterest is full of wonderful Christmas ideas, some stores here in New Zealand have already got their Christmas displays ready and lots of Christmas blogs are posting more and more frequently.... I guess I'd better get myself organised and find some Christmas inspiration.

6 Christmas Gift ideas to buy for under $30

Here a are 6 ideas of gifts under $30 all from New Zealand shores. Make your Christmas easy and buy online from local businesses this year! 

 

#1 - Ducks bath toy, Source

 



 

#2 - Spike Back Pack, Source
 

#3 -  Bananagrams, Source

 

 

#4 - Fix-It Tool Box, Source

 

 

 #5 - Ukulele, Source

 

 #6 - Magnetic Board, Source
 

 

Christmas in New Zealand is the complete opposite of traditional images of Christmas. Movies, books and Christmas cards nearly always show Christmas as cold and snowy, with people wrapped up in their warm clothes and gathered around a crackling fire. In New Zealand though, it’s warm and (if we’re lucky) sunny, with people in shorts, t-shirts and jandals.

James decorated most of our tree by himself Last year.
He designated himself in charge of the “tournaments,” his word for ornaments, and he took his job very seriously by giving orders to Georgia.

 

If my kids could, they'd leave the Christmas tree up all year round.

 

Christmas is a time of traditions, the things that you do year after year. There are lots of different traditions from all over the world, including:

• In Brazil, fireworks go off in the skies over the cities and huge Christmas ‘trees’ of electric lights can be seen against the night skies in major cities such as Brasilia, San Paolo, and Rio de Janeiro.
• In Greece, very few presents are given to each other. Instead, small gifts are given to hospitals and orphanages.
• In Switzerland, bell ringing has become a tradition, and each village competes with the next when calling people to midnight mass. After the service, families gather to share huge homemade doughnuts called ringli and hot chocolate.
• In Wales, taffy making is an important part of the Welsh Christmas. This involves making a special kind of chewy toffee from brown sugar and butter. It is boiled and then pulled so that it becomes lovely and glossy.

What are your Christmas traditions? We will be sharing our Christmas traditions with you over the next couple of weeks but we would love to know how you celebrate Christmas...
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