Christmas Giving
7 Tips How to Add a Personal Touch to Your Giving!
by Bernadette Dimitrov, The HoHoHo Expert!
Christmas is synonymous with giving. There are many ways to show generosity in the spirit of Christmas. Here are seven top tips that add a personal touch to your Christmas giving:
1. Gift friends a home made dinner - buy 6 red envelopes and write on a sheet of paper ‘An invitation to a specially prepared home made dinner in honor of my special friends to celebrate the festive season together!’ Put a time and date on it for about 2 weeks after Christmas and send off with your Christmas cards.
2. Christmas family fun activity - ask everyone in the family to write on a small piece of paper something they would like to do together that preferably does not cost money. Fold each piece of paper up and place it into a hat. Suggestions might be: play a Christmas board game, play cricket at the beach wearing Santa hats, go for a walk around the neighborhood together to see all the Christmas displays and to spot a Christmas ‘pickle’ ornament and have a special gift of an extra Christmas wish for the one who finds one. Now take it in turns from the oldest to the youngest and write down in that order each suggestion and then each week during the festive season choose one or two days per week to do an activity together.
3. Bake home made cookies – get together as a family and have everyone take it in turns to partake in the making eg. each family member takes it in turns to stir the mixture one full circle then passes onto the next person. Once made place on a favorite plate and cover with cellophane and add a ribbon and keep for visitors who call in at Christmas.
4. Gift an afternoon tea - type up a flyer for all the neighbors in your street to come for a Christmas afternoon tea.
5. Santa Sack – Buy some red and green felt material and cut up in to oblong pieces of the same size. Place one red and one green together and hand sew the outer edges or glue them leaving a space so you can fold down the top. Use a marker pen and writer each family members name on a sack. Cut a small hole and thread a piece of red or green ribbon through the top and hang each one on each family member’s door.
6. Home made gift box - after you take down your Christmas cards, buy a medium sized box for each family member. Cut the front of the Christmas cards up into small squares and cut out the wishes and who from written on the cards and place in a bag or hat. Mix them all together then take out one piece at a time and glue it onto the box until all sides are covered. Under the lid write in texter the year of the Christmas cards. It will look very colorful and is a wonderful personal memento of the good wishes sent from family and friends. The next tip is something you can put into it.
7. Write your own blessings – cut an A4 sheet of paper into strips about half an inch wide. On each strip write a verse for happiness, forgiveness, prosperity, love, joy and abundance. Then take a twig and roll each paper strip around the small twig. Use sticky tape to secure the first end of the paper strip to the twig. Do this for each virtue and place them all into a box that each person will take one from next Christmas Eve!
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