"...Christmas Time
Mistletoe and dine..."
- Fast Parties for Busy
Folks - Arrange for a casserole party . Have an assigned "pot luck"
and ask each guest to bring one dish of a dinner. Or you can use a
"one food theme" such as soup, chili, spaghetti, stew, pizza, quiche,
or make-your-own sandwiches.
- Dessert Parties - Freeze the cookies that you had made in November
for a holiday cookie party in December. Buy a couple of fabulous
desserts for an after concert dessert party. Make cupcakes and invite
the kids to decorate their own with sprinkles and sugars. Cookies can
also be exchanged. Cookie baskets can be distributed to teachers,
coaches, or others. Arrange a coffee and cake party, or tea and
pastries, or cocoa and cookies for kids.
- Santa Parties -
 Decorate with a Santa theme, hire a Santa to
distribute gifts, invite neighborhood children to make Santa crafts or
cookies, Arranging a secret Santa party can work wonders. Or you can
show Santa themed family videos. Ask the invitees to wear red, pass
out Santa hats, and have a program of recitations of Santa poems and
stories.
- Give to Charity - Invite a group to work in a food kitchen, collect
toys for the needy, deliver food baskets. Explore your creativity by
making things for the homeless like blankets, mittens, toys, etc. Make
treat baskets for the hospital-bound, collect warm clothing like hats,
mittens, coats, etc. Collect and donate canned goods to a food pantry.
Help the inmates of retirement homes and homeless shelters set up a
tree. Shovel snow, put up holiday lights, or decorate trees for the
elderly.
- Decorating the outside - Invite everyone for coffee and rolls, then go
from house to house and have everyone help put up holiday lights and
outdoor decorations all over the neighborhood. When you're finished
have a giant chili supper!
- Let it snow -
 Arrange a snow party. Sent invitations with snowman
printed on it. Decorate the house with snowflakes from the ceiling.
Make a real snowman outside to greet the guests. Give each child a
carrot with their names on it to pin the carrot on the snowman. Make
individual snowman cakes for the children and put out an array of
decorations such as m and m’s for eyes and buttons, sprinkles, coconut
for snow etc. Stuff the gift bags with snowflake themed gadgets. You
can also include a package of” Snowman Soup” which is hot cocoa,
heresy kisses, marsh mallows and a peppermint stick.
- Christmas Forest Party - Your kid and his friends will simply love
this one. Buy small artificial Christmas tree for each child along
with tinsel bows and ornaments to decorate each one of them. Set up a
gazebo outdoors, and set up the “forest” under this. Decorate a big
Christmas tree at the back of the forest and set up all small trees on
the “snow” you can buy for Christmas, in rows, with nametags on each
tree. Ask each child to go into the “forest” and find the tree labeled
with their name and then decorate it with the articles that they are
provided with. A snowball fight wills double the enjoyment.
- Chocolate Party - Hire a chocolate chef. Give each child a cup of
melted chocolate with cookies, pretzels, fruit and a lot of fun stuff
to dip and ask the chef to involve the kids along with him in
chocolate making.
 Each child should have a definite work area with waxpaper to dry its creations. After they finish, each child receives
a box with their names written on it and stuff it with all the
chocolates they have made. You can adopt the Hershey kiss theme for
the party. Make the invitations on computer with a chef hat and
children mixing a vat of chocolate. Use white vinyl table cloths (from
party stores) and decorate them with big Hershey kisses. Cut sheets of
aluminum foil and tape the word kisses at the top of each one and cut
them out like long labels on the chocolate kisses. Since this was a
cooking kind of a party, the children are bound to get messy, its wise
to buy T-shirts for each with a kiss printed on them along with the
name of each one. Before the party gets over, take a group snap. Copy
this image and use them as thank.
- Christmas Ornament Party -
 It is a very easy party to put
together and lots of kids can be invited. It needs to be mentioned in
the invitation that its going to be an ornament party. The instruction
can be included as part of a poem or indicated at the bottom of the
invitation "Ornaments Preferred!". Each child brings an ornament along
with him or her. Have a Santa Claus come over to your place and each
child gets an opportunity to sit on his lap and reveal to Santa what
they want for Christmas. Santa gives each child a bag that includes an
ornament and some other goodies. Take a snap of each child with Santa
for them to take home. Parents can also take pictures of their child
with Santa. This party is actually a no-mess party as ornaments come
in a wide variety of price ranges .Over the years your kid will
actually have accumulated a number of ornaments that can actually be
reused for later Christmas decorations.
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