Christmas

In this section, you will find tips on picking out the right tree for your home, decorating tips, Christmas activities, and of course, our favorite recipes for the holidays!

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Yummy Christmas Treats!:

Cookie Baking Tips
You will be amazed at how making these tiny adjustments will improve your cookie recipes!

Buttermilk Sugar Cookies
MY favorite Christmas cookie recipe, these sugar cookies are soft and fluffy!

Candy Cane Cookies
Santa will be looking specifically for these cookies while coming down your chimney!

Chocolate Peppermint Bark
This wonderful chocolate bark is a great recipe for giving or for keeping all to yourself!

Delicious and EASY fudge recipe
This recipe is much easier than the kind you have to use a candy thermometer and wait for a soft ball stage!

Double Chocolate Peppermint Brownies
A true holiday indulgence. Recipe courtesy of Kneaders, a fantastic local bakery!

Gingerbread House Recipe and Instructions
Your children will love helping you create this adorable gingerbread house. Then they'll love helping you pick at it afterwards! Use your creativity to put whatever candies you like onto your house!

Gingerbread House Haven:
For more decorating ideas and inspiration, see this site all about gingerbread houses!

Gingerbread Men Cookies
This molasses-free recipe is a hit! Super fun to decorate with the children!

Hot Chocolate Recipes and Yummy Ideas!
Tons of new ideas to creating the perfect cup of cocoa! Your family will love experimenting with all of these recipes and fun ideas!

Non-Alcoholic Eggnog
Christmas just isn't complete without a cup of the perfect eggnog recipe!

Old-Fashioned English Toffee
A wonderful Christmas treat! Your neighbors will be hoping that you'll bring some over to them too!

Sparkling Cranberry Punch
A very simple punch recipe that tastes fancy, but is so easy to make!

Wassail Recipe
This amazing recipe with warm your home with the smells of Christmas!

Family Activities:

Christmas Eve Activities for the Family
We have compiled a list of lots of wonderful activities for you and your family to do on Christmas Eve!

Christmas Carols and Christmas Songs
Tons of Christmas song lyrics for your personal use, now in a printer-friendly format! Warm your heart with the Christmas songs you love the most.

Christmas Elves
A GREAT idea for a new family Christmas tradition!

Christmas Symbols Pointing to Christ
Don't get bogged down by the commercialization of Christmas! See how symbols used during this season bear witness of the birth of Christ!

The Real Story of Christmas
Read to your family the real story of Christmas as found in Luke.

Cookie Recipe Exchange Party
Instead of baking tons of cookies for all your friends, host a cookie recipe exchange party!

The Gift of the Magi
Read to your family this wonderful, heartwarming Christmas story. Written as a metaphor for the Wisemen we read about in the Bible.

Gingerbread House Party
Throw a party that centers around making gingerbread houses!

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Love this song? Click here for a delightful webpage that brings it to life for you and your kids!

Track Santa on Christmas Eve!
Now you can track Santa online with your children on Christmas Eve!

What are Your Favorite Holiday Traditions?
Share your favorite holiday traditions with us!

Other Christmas Necessities:

Alone on the Holidays?
Activities and ideas for those who are alone on the holidays, to help you get through the holidays without feeling lonely.

Christmas Tree: Real or Artificial?
Check out our tips on choosing the RIGHT tree for your living situation!

Maintaining Your Real Christmas Tree
We'll help you choose, maintain, and dispose of your real Christmas tree.

Wholesale Christmas Trees and Greens Delivered to Your Door
The Grower's Box is now offering wholesale Christmas trees and wreaths delivered directly to your door, FRESH from the farm! Perfect for those who don't want to schlep a Christmas tree from the tree lot, especially those living in apartments in large cities. Ease and convenience coupled with the very best trees and flowers, you will love The Grower's Box.

Find the Best Airline Prices Online!
Holiday travel costs a fortune! Learn our tips on how to save hundreds of dollars per airline ticket!

Poinsettias: Just the Facts, Ma'am.
Are poinsettias poisonous? Find out here! Also included are tips to pick out and care for your poinsettia plants!

Purchase Gifts:

Why buy your Christmas gifts on eBay?

• Find heavily discounted deals on all of your Christmas needs!



• Find endless ideas and creative inspiration that you never would have thought possible!
• You can find almost ANYTHING on eBay. Check frequently, and you will be surprised at what gets listed!
• Shop in your jammies, at your convenience!
• Buy in bulk and save even more!



• Use eBay to send a gift to someone who is far away!
• Use the super handy gadget we've provided below to see items that are about to end their bidding times!