Well as of right now its 15 days until Christmas,  Which means only 15 days left of shopping.  Well We are done for the most part a few things here and there for the boys and an outfit or two for Becky.  But I often wonder are we teaching them enough about the real meaning of Christmas,  I mean we do talk about the birth of Jesus and he is the real meaning for the season but I wonder how much is actually being learned.  I already know that my children are well spoiled and sadly becoming materialistic. I know where it comes from  and we are working on that.  I did some searching this morning for some activities to help them learn the real meaning I found a few sites that have some great ideas to teach them with out preaching.

• This is an advent calender that has different activities to count down to Christmas
• There is a Ebook from Little Kid Christmas Crafts that has a lot of great ideas on celebrating with crafts, recipes and coloring.  I just got it I haven’t had a chance to read through it all yet but it does look promising.
• This one comes from the LDS ‘Friend’ Magazine. It is the 12 days of Christmas  Surprise, This is not a religious activity when looking at it but it does teach the act of sharing, and doing things for others.
• Some other ideas I found is here at Raising Our Kids.  It has scriptures to read of you do that.  and other activities for families to do together.

I think one of the main things I read was to help teach them to give of themselves and share what they have.  I am going to turn Dec 17th the Bloggers Unite Random acts of Kindness activity in to a family one.  I am going to find things we can do for others together.

What ideas do you have that can help share and teach the real meaning of Christmas?  I hope you share them I love learning new ways to help teach the children

Have a Great Monday