How to celebrate like Christmas Hallmark Movies? We love Christmas Hallmark movies and in this post we’ll discuss how we bring this to our home and family.
How To Decorate for Christmas?
Decorating Inside
- Decorate a Christmas tree and place it in your living or family room
- Add garland, lights, and stockings above a fireplace
- Turn our fireplace on or light a fire. If you don’t have one you can create a mini one, use your TV by playing this, or buy a faux fireplace
- Add candles
- Add cozy blankets
Decorating Outside
- Make your own Christmas Decorations
- Add a wreath to your front door and or windows
- Hang lights
- Add a garland on your front door and to railings
- Add a faux tree or decorate what you might already have in our front yard
- Add candle lights to your windows on the inside.
How to decorate for Christmas on a budget?
- Make your own décor on a budget
- Buy Christmas sets that come together like a wreath and garland
- Watch for sales
- Buy some things at the dollar store
- Shop Christmas clearance
- Shop online, especially Black Friday deals
- Look at 2nd hand places like thrift stores, Nextdoor.com, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist
How can I make my kitchen look Christmassy?
- Add wreaths to your cabinet doors made from dollar store garland
- Add red ribbon and bows to your cabinet doors
- Add lights and garland around door ways and windows
Christmas Family Favorites
- Bake your favorite cookies together
- Brew hot apple cider or hot chocolate, and have heartfelt conversations
- Have snacks on the table to make the kitchen a gathering place
What are some Christmas activities?
- Make ornaments together
- Curl up with blankets and snacks and watch movies
- Play some games together
- Read books
- Go for a winter light drive
How do you celebrate Christmas on a budget?
- Make hot chocolate or apple cider, get in our car, turn on the holiday music, and go look at lights.
- As mentioned above – watch movies, play games, read stories
- Bake, make treats, or make s’mores together
- Listen to holiday music and sing together
- Go caroling
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What fun if only… I love the plaid plates. I know who else will love those. It would be interesting to go carolling this year. I would do it if I had any friends who would sing. My family would prefer to let me go alone.
Haha! How about we do Zoom-Caroling?! You go singing around your neighborhood carrying your laptop, and I’ll back you up with the harmony! 😉
LOL YES!!!!
Thanks Andrea, and oh no… I’ll totally join you!
love hallmark movies too and im gonna try this
Thank you Faith, I really love and I’m so glad you do too.
All fabulous ideas Chas! It’s so fun to see what other families do to celebrate – I’m going to see about adopting some of these this year! Especially the hot chocolate and movies one! 🙂 Thanks for all the great holiday inspiration!
Thank you so much Barbara! I’m so glad you like the ideas and want to give them a try too.
What a fun post! We had a Hallmark movie filmed recently in a nearby town and it was so neat to see how they stage all the areas for maximum Christmas feels and comfort.
Thank you Joanne, and how fun that would be to watch be a part of all of that!
Wonderful ideas Chas! I almost never watch TV or movies except for the Hallmark movies at Christmas while I’m wrapping gifts. I haven’t seen one I didn’t like. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks Kim, and that’s exactly what I do… multi-task while the Hallmark movies are on. We have a lot of giggles over them and we all enjoy them.
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