Holiday Life Hacks

Happy, chilly Monday everyone! We hope your winter break is off to a good start so far! As we prepare for this season of gift-giving and celebrating with our loved ones, we found a few “hacks” to help with your preparations. If you’re way ahead of the game and ready to go, you can just use some of these ideas to keep your littles busy this week. These ideas can be found at kidrated.com, another great online resource you can check out if you’d like.

Let’s get to the fun…

Hack #1 – Use Family Pictures for Gift Tags

Add a personal touch (and some festive cheer) to your gifts by using family snapshots instead of the more traditional name tags.

1. Print digital photos onto white card
2. Cut into decorative shapes
3. Attach to your presents
4. Send out presents to your loved ones

Hack #2 – Make Hot Chocolate Hearts

Want a fun treat you can make (and then enjoy) with the kids?

1. Grab a baking sheet and cover it in whipped cream
2. Freeze the whipped cream over night
3. Cut the frozen cream into a heart shape
4. Add to a nice cup of hot chocolate

Hack #3 – Make Christmas Candy Sleighs

You can make great gifts for your friends and neighbors using candy canes and other treats.

1. Place two candy canes with the loops facing up
2. Layer the other treats on top
3. Tie together with a ribbon

Hack #4 – Make Elf Donuts with Cheerios

For our Elf on the Shelf fans, this would be fun to do! You can use Cheerios to make adorable elf donuts that your kids will both love making and eating!

1. Grab some Cheerios
2. Decorate each one using chocolate, icing, sprinkles and any other treat you or the kids want to use

Hack #5 – Use Candy Canes for Place Cards

Having family around for your holiday dinner? Want to keep the kids busy while you’re preparing?

1. Grab a bag of candy canes
2. Use edible glue to stick three together at right angles to each other
3. Get place your festive place card holders!

Hack #6 – Use Condiment Bottles for Icing

Apart from opening their presents, there’s nothing children love more than holiday food.

1. Grab some old school condiment bottles (like the kind served in US diners)
2. Fill them with icing
3. Decorate some holiday treats!

Hack #7 – Pretty Up Your Trash Bin

Grab a cardboard box and wrap it in festive wrapping paper. A five-minute process that gives you your very own present bin – not only the kids get involved in making it, but it will encourage them to tidy away their own used wrapping paper and will look much better in family photos than a big trash bag.

What do you think? Feel free to utilize them or pass them onto someone who you think would enjoy some tips! Have a fun week and happy hacking!! 🙂

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