Holidays And Celebrations With Your Family

Make your family's holidays and celebrations special, fun and enjoyable for everyone with these great ideas, hints and tips.

Holidays, like Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and more, along with other celebrations like birthday parties, family reunions, and more are some of the most special times we can have together, as a family.

Therefore, in this section of the Household Management 101 website, I have collected my tips, hints and ideas for making your celebrations and holidays traditions meaningful, fun and stress-free.

The first thing I suggest is to create a holiday planner that you can use season after season, year after year, to keep all your family's ideas, activities, recipes, schedules, lists and traditions in one place.

Here's a round up of printable holiday calendars that you can print off for this holiday planner. Links to more printables that are holiday specific can be found below.

Halloween

• Ideas For Homemade Halloween Costumes
• Halloween Traditions With Your Family - Mine And Yours
• 20 Easy Halloween Treat Ideas For Trick Or Treaters
• Pumpkin Carving Tips
• 5 Tips For Preserving Carved Pumpkins
• Printable Pumpkin Carving Patterns
• Family Halloween Movies - My Family's Top 10, Plus your Picks
• Printable Halloween Calendar
• Printable Halloween To Do List
• Halloween Safety Tips For Kids
• How Many Licks Does It Take To Get To The Center Of A Tootsie Pop? - find out the results of my daughter's experiment here
• Recipes For Halloween + Other Fall Recipes Ebooks
• Caramel Apple Recipe
• How To Roast Pumpkin Seeds
• Hot Apple Cider Recipe With Cranberries

Thanksgiving

• Free Printable Thanksgiving Planner {Round Up Of Printables}
• Printable Thanksgiving Calendar
• Printable Thanksgiving To Do List
• Thanksgiving Countdown Checklist {includes free printable}
• Printable Thanksgiving Grocery List
• Printable Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Planner
• Printable Thanksgiving Day Schedule: Cooking Countdown
• How To Defrost Turkey Safely To Make Sure It's Ready To Cook On Thanksgiving Day
• Snoopy Thanksgiving Movie And Easy Party Idea
• Easy Handprint Turkey Craft For Kids
• What Are Your Family's Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes?
• Thanksgiving Day Prayers - Ideas And Traditions For Your Family
• Thanksgiving Traditions With Your Family
• Thanksgiving Sites For Your Family To Enjoy

Christmas

• Free Printable Christmas Planner {Round Up Of Printables}
• Free Family Christmas Traditions E-Book - Here's a free ebook with ideas for family Christmas traditions you can do this holiday season to make special Christmas memories that last a lifetime.
• Put Your Christmas On A Budget - tips and ideas for how to make a realistic Christmas budget that reflects your family's values and beliefs
• Christmas Budget How Tos - Video Tips - more tips for making your family's holiday budget, and tracking your spending to make sure you stick to that budget
• Family Christmas Photo Ideas & Tips - make this annual event more fun, get better pictures, and make some wonderful memories for generations to come
• Writing Christmas Letters To Family & Friends: Ideas & Tips - If you'd like to write Christmas letters to friends and family this year, but are getting overwhelmed, here's ideas and tips to make the process painless and fun.
• Printable Christmas Card List to keep track of the names and addresses of those you want to send Christmas cards
• Printable Christmas Wish List, to learn what your friends and family really would like to receive as gifts
• Printable Christmas Gift List, and how to use it to keep yourself on a realistic Christmas gift budget
• Printable Gift Tracker (track gifts received)
• Printable Christmas Calendar
• Printable Christmas To Do List
• Printable Christmas Grocery List
• Printable Christmas Menu Planner Forms
• Top 10 Family Christmas Movies - here's my list of my family's favorite holiday films that are enjoyable for kids and adults alike
• Real Christmas Tree Care Tips, from set up to clean up, to make your tree last longer and make clean up easier
• Christmas Light Storage Idea To Keep Your Lights From Tangling
• Christmas Ornament Storage Boxes: Snap And Stack Box With Dividers
• Easy Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe - a great treat for the whole family to make as one of your Christmas candy recipes this year
• How To Make Grinch Kabobs - fun, easy and simple Christmas activity with kids
• Good Christmas Blogs And Christmas Websites

Other Family Fun Events

Here's additional fun family events and ideas because family time is all year, not just on holidays!

• Free Comic Book Day - This fun free event, which happens annually on the first Saturday of May, is always an anticipated event by everyone in my home! I hope it will be in yours from now on as well.

Gift Ideas For Your Family

Part of almost all holidays and celebrations is giving gifts. This doesn't have to be a big spending event however, but it is more important these gifts come from the heart. Here are some ideas:

• Is A Family Gift Idea Best? - great ideas for family gifts that are fun, frugal and promote family togetherness
• Silly Bandz - Fun Collecting Hobby Or Obsession?

Wrapping Your Gifts And Presents

Many holidays and celebrations involve the giving of gifts and presents to love ones and family members. Check out these pages that provide tips and tutorials for presenting these gifts in beautiful ways:

• How To Wrap A Gift - basic instructions, with a video
• How To Wrap Presents That Are Unusually Shaped (with several videos)
• How To Make A Bow For Your Gifts And Presents - ranging from simple to complex, with several videos
• Rubbermaid Gift Wrap Storage Organizer

Make Your Holidays Stress Free

I would also urge you that in preparation for the holidays and celebrations of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years you join me in the Stress Free Holidays Series. This series lasts for 13 weeks to give you weekly instructions for the tasks to accomplish each week to have a stress free holiday season!

• Week 1 - Reducing Holiday Stress Through Planning
• Week 2 - Experience Stress Free Holidays With Small Steps
• Week 3 - More Simple Steps For A Stress Free Holiday
• Week 4 - Final Preparations And Halloween Planning Tasks
• Week 5 - Thanksgiving Planning For A Fun Thanksgiving Day With Your Family
• Week 6 - Planning Thanksgiving - More Steps For A Stress Free Thanksgiving Day
• Week 7 - Planning For Thanksgiving - What To Do This Week For A Great Turkey Day
• Week 8 - Avoid Thanksgiving Stress By Doing These Simple Last Minute Thanksgiving Tasks
• Week 9 - Christmas Planning - Things To Do This Week For A Stress Free Holiday Season
• Week 10 - Tasks This Week For A Stress Free Christmas
• Week 11 - More Christmas Preparations For The Week
• Week 12 - Tasks To Do This Week For Getting Ready For Christmas
• Week 13 - Post Holiday Stress Relief And Getting Back Into The Normal Routine

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