Monthly Archives: October 2020

The 12 Games of Xmas

There are lots of new and untraditional ways to get your family into the Christmas spirit this season. Challenging your kids to an online snowball fight is a great step in the right direction. We found a site that has tons of Christmas Themed Video Games. https://kizi.com/christmas

Virtual Christmas Games for 2020

  • Snowball Fight: In Snowball Fight, Santa has had enough of these goblins! While he and his helpful elves are busy with the preparations for Christmas, these mischievous monsters are doing everything to hinder their efforts. With their green fur and grinning faces, they deserve a lesson! Can you join Santa and teach those menaces a lesson?

Snowball fight is our personal favorite virtual holiday game, but you can more like:

  • Angry Santa
  • Xmas Airlines
  • 4×4 Christmas
  • Christmas Parkour
  • Santa Run
  • Princess Christmas
  • Christmas Castle
  • Hidden Christmas
  • Xmas Wheelie

As well as holiday themed Mazes, Sudoku and Mahjong.
We guarantee you’ll have a ball.

Santa Calls

‘Tis the season to video chat with Santa. This year Santa might spend less time at shopping malls and more time at the North Pole dealing with government compliance at the toy factory. They don’t call him Corona Claus for nothing. 

How to Talk to Santa in 2020

Be they naughty or nice Santa has purposely set aside lots of time to talk to your kids about their holiday wish list. Video chatting with Santa is a great way to get everyone into the spirit of the season and find out what your kids are really hoping for this Christmas.

To extend the value of this activity your kids can even put together a little list of questions:

  • What are his favorite kind of cookies?
  • Whole milk, skim milk or almond milk?
  • What’s his favorite gift to get?
  • Who named all the reindeer?
  • Is it true Mrs. Claus really runs the organization?

You might even see Mrs. Claus in the background sewing Santa a big mask to fit over his beard and a special clear mask so Rudolph’s red nose can still light the way.

Santa's Favorite Face Masks

YuleTube

Not everyone has a fireplace in their home or apartment and even if you do it might be a little too warm where you live to use it. YouTube provides an almost perfect solution. A delightful crackling fireplace that plays for hours without commercial interruption.

Why do I say it’s an almost perfect solution? Let’s just say I found out the hard way that melted marshmallows don’t come off of an LED screen with great ease.

If you really want to get creative you can get contact paper with a stone pattern on it and stick it to the box the TV came in. You can then cut out a rectangular hole, a little smaller than the television, and voila you have an instant fireplace in any room. You can hang your Christmas stockings in front of your virtual fireplace and eat roasted chestnuts while wearing your favorite Christmas socks.

Shop Christmas Socks

Sound Choices

Holiday music can lift your spirits and set the tone for a family celebration or a romantic Christmas Eve for two.

Find an Ugly christmas sweater for your celebration

Want Christmas Songs for Virtual Christmas Party?

No matter how you want to celebrate picking the right music is a great first step. There is a lot of power in music and while it can be very uplifting it can also remind us of Christmases past and people we’ve lost. If you can, try to pick music that will take you on a journey to where you want to be. Allow us to make a few musical suggestions:

  • For an upbeat atmosphere, traditional Christmas songs sung by the artists that made them popular, always set the mood and since everyone knows the words a sing-along is bound to break out. 
  • Traditional classic Christmas songs are also great sing-along faves that your guests will love. 
  • For a more elegant Christmas celebration, Christmas songs, played only instrumentally on the piano, is less distracting and can be more intimate. 
  • Holiday Choir music can set a more somber and reverent tone but it’s the next best thing to going to church for Midnight Mass on a cold December night. 

In addition to the above YouTube suggestions most cable companies, Alexa and Sirius XM offer holiday music channels with a wide variety of choices.

Family Tree

T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house

Not a creature was stirring except for your mouse.

Decorating the Virtual Christmas tree.

Virtual Christmas Tree

There are a wide variety of Christmas balls, ribbons, garlands and other types of decorations to hang on your virtual family Christmas tree!

Not only can you and your whole family decorate a virtual holiday tree from anywhere in the world but you can even designate a charity or a cause to donate money to.

https://visufund.com/templates/christmas-tree-in-snow

Sleigh at Home Order

Don’t let the lack of snow or an actual sleigh, hamper your child’s fun this winter. With our help you’re about to create an incredible memory for your whole family by taking your child on a virtual sleigh ride. How elaborate you want to make the experience is entirely up to you but here are some of our suggestions.

Create a Virtual Sleigh Ride

Place a hamper close to a big screen TV (as close to eye level as possible.) Place a fan next to the TV pointed at the hamper. Using your TV go to the following link on YouTube, pause it and click the full screen button.

https://youtu.be/6ltnd7XPjnc

Turn off all the lights in the room and guide your child in with their eyes closed.

Place them in the hamper, start the video and the fan and tell them to open their eyes.

As the virtual sleigh ride begins start to move and shake the hamper to match the movements of the sleigh on the video.

If you want to add some extra enhancement to magic you can put a scarf on your child give them some ski goggles and even spray a little bit of water or sprinkle confetti in the path of the fan.

Whatever you do make sure that someone videotapes the whole thing. It is sure to become a priceless memory and maybe even a family tradition.

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