The Four Parts of My Traditional Holiday Planner

I have been fine-tuning a holiday planner for many years that is based on our family's Christmas traditions. I started finding that we were forgetting or leaving out some of our "favorite things" we like to do at Christmas. This is a four-part series that has everything I want to put in my planner, (a work-in-progress). Ultimately, this will become a Christmas Section of my Homemaking Journal to hand down to my daughters and granddaughters. 

Table of Contents:

1) Getting Organized for The Holidays

2) Getting into the Mood

   a) Christmas Pageant

   b) Symbols of Christmas (Trim the Tree)

   c) Children’s Christmas Stories and Crafts

      1) Preschool to Third Graders (Countdown Chain)

      2) Fourth to Sixth Graders (Clove Orange)

   d) Christmas Legend and Lore

   e) The History of St. Nicholas

   f) “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”

3) Favorite Ornaments, Decorations, and Gifts to Make with Children

  a) Ornaments

    1) Santa’s List
    2) Wooly Sheep
  b) Paper Reindeer Decoration
  c) Easy Hats to Sew (Beginners)
  d) Pinecone Fire Starters
  e) Paper Snowflakes
  f) Christmas Card (Magic Reindeer Mix)

4) Service and Entertaining

   a) Christmas Caroling

   b) Christmas Entertaining

   c) Keeping Christmas all Year

   d) Cookie Swap

   e) Recipes

   g) Movies and Books