77. Christmas traditions and activities

by on December 6, 2011
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Water,blueberries and hot tea is how we kick off this show. Catherine Oehlman, onscreen personality, speaker and writer of the popular website and blog  Squigglemum  and I talk about Christmas activities and keeping it special for the children and time to enjoy it ourselves. 

 

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We learn

  • some typical Christmas traditions ( 5:26)
  • Joining and melding of family traditions ( 7:58)
  • cookie exchanges (  10:10 )
  • Carols by candlelight (12:27)
  • Christmas crafts ( 14:12)
  • Truth in the Tinsel ebook
  • Simple Advent calendar ( 14:55)
  • Toilet rolls and the nativity (15:17)
  • Christmas angels via muminthemadhouse.com ( 15:56 )
  • Making a nativity set ( 16:23)
  • balancing out Christmas and Santa ( 19:09)
  • Our crazy Advent calendar schedule ( 20:06 )
  • using photographs to jog memory and provide prompts  (22:20)
  •  wrapping gifts  and handmade  gifts and writing cards (23:01)
  • stress free and reason for the season (24:34)
  • Good givers and receive gratefully (25:49 )
  • Worldvision & Compassion (26:53)
  • Buying for charity giving (27:05)
  • Grocery store questions ( 31:05)
  • Buying handmade online(33:10)
  • Dealing with pressure ( 37:10)

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Raising Playful Tots Podcast #4 Christmas Play Activities

by on December 16, 2009
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Today we have the first in a series of interviews with Allie of NoTimeForFlashcards.com. Allie and I talked about Christmas play activities. This time of year everyone is time stretched so here we have some ideas of play activities you can squeeze into your day. Plus these interviews are shorter because we’ve got so much to do this time of year.

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