How do you install a sense of tradition in your home at Christmas time?

There are a number of magic ingredients that help to make Christmas magical.

Here are our favourites – what’s yours?

• Decorate your house – and yard.

• Make your own Christmas decorations and welcoming wreath.

• Write letters to Father Christmas. Help your children to write their wish lists – as long as they’ve been mostly nice this year!

• Invite an ‘Elf on the Shelf’ to live with you, and hide him somewhere new every night.

• Look at the lights. Go for a drive or a walk and look at the Christmas lights display in your neighbourhood.

• Email Christmas cards to friends and family who live out of town.

• Decorate your own gingerbread houses.

• Cut out paper snowflakes or make paper chains.

• Set up a nativity scene in your house and re-enact the story of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve.

• Sing, or listen to, Christmas carols.

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