I love this time of year! Time for family and friends, decorations, baking, shopping and giving. It’s also a special time of year for making memories with our families. I don’t know about you, but our family loves to watch movies during the holidays, as well as enjoying all the homemade goodies that goes along with them. On December 21st, Illumination Entertainment’s movie, SING©, will be coming to theaters everywhere. If you haven’t seen the preview yet, I definitely recommend you check it out! It looks like a good one!
With the holiday season in full swing now and our kids getting ready to go on the long awaited 3 week break, it’s a great time to continue or even start some fun holiday traditions. Here are 5 ways to sweeten the holidays with your family:
1 – Decorate your home for the holidays. Our kids love to help decorate for Christmas. Decorating includes putting up the lights outside the house and the decorations in the front yard, putting up festive decor inside the house and dressing our Christmas tree with a ton of ornaments!
2 – Enjoy movies as a family. One of our holiday traditions as a family is to enjoy watching holiday movies after we’ve finished decorating the house and tree. We also love going to the movie theaters. As I mentioned above, we’re looking forward to seeing the SING Movie in theaters on December 21st.
3 – Make holiday crafts together. Our kids love to get creative when it comes to art and crafts! One of their favorite holiday projects was painting a Nutcracker doll. There are tons of holiday craft ideas out there that are great for kids.
4 – Choose a family to do Secret Santa for. During the holidays, I especially love giving to others. Something I remember doing when I was younger was choosing a family to be Secret Santa for. Often times, we’d help out a family having a hard time. This might include dropping off a bag full of wrapped presents or a basket of food to prepare for the holidays. It’s a great way to give to others and teach your children how to be giving during the holidays.
5 – Sweeten the holidays with baked goodies. Our kids love to help cook in the kitchen…and they love eating the sweet treats even more! Our family especially loves chocolate cupcakes. After picking up a few boxes of Golden Crisp® from Target, we thought it would be fun to create a really yummy cupcake! Check it out.
First, we baked the cupcakes. Once they were cooled, we spread a frosting on top. You can choose vanilla, chocolate or whatever flavor you’d like. The frosting will not only taste good, but also act as a glue to hold the next ingredients in place.
Once frosted, dip the top of the cupcake into a bowl of Golden Crisp® cereal and then add festive candy sprinkles on top. Finish off with a red or green gumdrop right in the middle of the cupcake. Enjoy your yummy holiday cupcake!
Be sure to head to your local Albertsons, Target, HEB, Kroger, ShopRite or Winco and pick up a box of Golden Crisp® cereal. If you’re like me and like to save money on your purchases, be sure to grab a coupon to use on your purchase of Golden Crisp® cereal.
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What are your favorite holiday traditions?
My Granddaughter wants to see this movie.
My family loves to eat Golden Crisp.
We enjoy opening one gift on Christmas Eve.
My son and daughter want to see the Sing movie with me!
My son and daughter and I love Golden Crisp Cereal!!
My favorite Holiday tradition is to get my husband and the kids together to go out and pick our tree out and decorate it together and listen to Christmas Music!
My niece and nephew want to see this movie!
I haven’t thought about Golden Crisp in years but I remember how much I liked it was a kid!
My favorite tradition is baking and decorating sugar cookies with the kids.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating gingerbread men and women cookies with my grandsons!
My favorite tradition is to bake Christmas cookies
My 7 year old daughter can’t wait to see it!
My husband likes golden crisp cereal.
My fave holiday tradition is baking sugar cookies with the kids.
My favorite Holiday tradition is taking a picture of my kids next to the tree!
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas lights around town with my kids & hot chocolate 🙂
pancakes on Christmas morning before gifts
My favorite holiday tradition it the annual sibling photo! All of my Mom and Dads kids are very seldom together at the same time. But we all try very hard on the holidays and definitely take a picture when we do!
My favorite holiday tradition is wrapping and giving presents for my family and friends
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baking and decorating christmas cookies
I love baking with the kids.
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I like doing the traditional holiday baking.
I want to take my sons to see Sing.
I love Golden Crisp the most!
I love to make sugar cookies with my sons!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter like I did with my mom and grandmother
I love making sugar cookies with the kids and decorating them all festive!
watching all the holiday movies
A favorite tradition is decorating the tree and having hot cocoa and cookies afterwards.
I want to see the sing movie!
I love the HOney crisp cereal!
We love to personalize an ornament for each person in the family every year!
We like baking cookies together as a family.
I love decorating the Christmas tree.
I’d enjoy it the most since it’s a musical but my kids would like it too
I don’t think any of us have ever tried Golden Crisp before
Christmas morning breakfast.
My kids and I like Golden Crisp cereal.
My favorite tradition is my Mom, sisters and I get together for a whole day to bake Holiday treats for our family.
Another Christmas tradition is to watch fun Christmas movies together as a family!
My favorite holiday tradition is having a family Chinese gift exchange.
We love making cookies together, while watching Christmas movies and making wine!
I would love to see Sing!
I love Golden Crisp!!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my mom.
My sons want to see this!
My sons love Honey crisp!
We usually watch old home movies!
I love giving thanks for what we have with the family!
A favorite tradition is decorating the tree.
One of our Holiday traditons is to make Holiday treats like fudge, and my Caramel-Gingerbread Cookie men.
I enjoy going to midnight mass on Christmas.
We love baking goodies!
One of our traditions is to watch Christmas Movies
My favorite tradition is having pizza on Christmas Eve with my family!
We love to spend time baking.
I like opening one present on Christmas Eve and then going to Midnight Mass.
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My favorite holiday tradition is the secret santa gift exchange we do among the adults.
We love making Holiday Crafts every year during Winter Break.
We enjoy baking cookies.
We love making Holiday crafts every year.
Caroling at the nursing homes.
I love baking holiday treats.
My daughter and I love making my Pecan Tassies every year and serving them at my sister’s big Christmas Party!
The kids and I love eating Golden Crisp cereal.
Our whole family wants to see SING 🙂 Love the characters and looking forward to the great songs!
Driving around to see the holiday lights.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my sisters and wrapping gifts together. It’s always a blast 🙂
Baking together is a favorite tradition.
One of our Holiday traditions is to go out and look at all the lights around the Lake.
We like to decorate and eat cookies.
We love making my Peppermint frosted Sugar cookies for the Holidays!
We like to drive around the different neighborhoods looking at all the Christmas lights.
My favorite is baking cookies together.
One of my Holiday traditions is to give a nice gift to a needy child.
My favorite tradition is taking a family picture every year in front of the tree.
One of our favorite traditions is decorating the tree as a family.
I like sending out my Christmas cards this time of year to my Family and friends.
Decorating and baking goodies together is a favorite.
I love these ideas. We actually do a couple of these already. We have some favorite Christmas movies that we watch for movie nights during the season, and the kids love to help make cookies for Santa.
I love your ways to sweeten the holidays! I think adopting a secret santa for someone is always fun!
WE love to sit and watch Christmas movies together! We also always decorate the tree together as a family, but I LOVE MOST when we sing carols together!
OH wow, this looks delicious! What a creative way to top cupcakes. 🙂
Having dinner with friends.
One of our favorite traditions is driving around and seeing the Christmas lights
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The kids love decorating the tree and enjoying hot cocoa and cookies afterwards.
Yummy! This is really brilliant idea! I love making sweets with my kids as well.
I’m wanting to see the Sing movie with my youngest step-daughter. I love Golden Crisp. It’s one of my favorite cereals. My favorite holiday tradition is our annual Candy/Christmas Day. We’ve been doing it for over 15 years. Thanks.
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This recipe is a super cute idea. Cereal is good on top of everything. My daughter cannot wait to see the SING movie!
My favorite holiday tradition is to bake Christmas cookies with my family
We like to drive around town looking at all the Christmas lights and decorations.
We love making Snowman and drinking hot chocolate!
These are great ways to spend time with family over the holidays! Great post!
We always decorate the family together. I also try to get the kids involved in helping make Santa’s cookies.
I love the holidays. There is so much to do. Decorating and baking are my favorites.
These cupcakes look so delicious and easy to make. We love eating Sugar Crisp cereal. I will have to give these a try.
Oh I love the secret santa idea! I’d love to try that out! This is a great post!
These are all great ideas! I’m always up for anything to make the holidays even more fun than they already are!!
Spending time with loved ones, eating yummy food and watching holiday movies.
We also love and having fun by watching movies together, and we love making some baked goodies I like your idea dipping into cereal!
One of our traditions is having Christmas stockings for everyone from youngest to the oldest.
I give new tree ornaments to the kids every year.
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The kids will want to see it for sure.
We like to visit different neighborhoods to see their xmas lights
Baking holiday cookies with kids is fun! I love watching old Christmas movies too!
I am always ready for the holiday traditions. We are doing movies and gingerbread houses this year!
My daughter and I are all about the holiday baking!!! Every weekend we have been baking something new!!
I am with you, Christmas time is my favoritw holiday as well. Looks like everyone had a blast.