If you’ve organised the usual holiday cheer for the night before Christmas – from leaving Santa’s mince pies out to hanging the stockings – and you still find yourself casting about for memory-making activities to introduce to the kids, then check out these ideas:
The Icelandic book flood
Between the snow and the reindeer Scandinavians don’t have to work very hard to make things Christmassy, but one thing they do make an effort with is Christmas Eve traditions. Known as Jólabókaflóð, or the Yule Book Flood, this is the festive period when Iceland’s book publishers release the majority of their titles. Family and friends then gift their favourite tomes to each other on Christmas Eve, then everyone proceeds to bed to read them with a hot chocolate. How cosy is that? Gift your kids a book they’ll love and read it together. The idea works particularly well as it creates an activity to pass the high-excitement time between getting ready for bed and waking up on Christm
Five shopping days until Christmas and even with many plans thrown into chaos yesterday, the boss of one of Britain s biggest grocers is sure of one thing. There will be celebrations – families will still do what they can to enjoy the day. We re banking on it, says David Potts, chief executive at Morrisons, who spent last week visiting stores at 6.30am, making last-minute calls to his suppliers and even dropping by a Brussels sprouts farm on Friday to check that this most crucial of Christmas products was going to make it on to dinner tables. The British public have been through quite a challenging year. It has shown what the country is capable of handling and now I think the country will celebrate this Christmas, says Potts, whose Bradford-based firm employs 125,000 people.
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In the run-up to Christmas (between 13th and 24th December) we bring you a different charity that needs your help at this time of year, as part of our dedicated 12 Charities of Christmas campaign…
AberNecessities
AberNecessities provides disadvantaged families with the essential and basic necessities that no child should go without.
From maternity bundles for mother and baby to nappies, formula milk, clothing, toys and equipment for children aged 0-18 years, AberNecessities recognises the importance of meeting the basic needs of a child in order to give them the best start possible.
They work closely with a body of professionals across the NHS, education system and social workers to support children living in poverty in our local community. Since launching in March 2019 they have helped over 4,000 children and families across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.