Christ Birth

Christmas is a season of joy and enjoyment and you want to show that enjoyment in decorating your house and work place. Almost all the people decorate their homes during Christmas. But very few think of decorating their workplace. If you are interested in decorating your work place there are many decorations available in the market to decorate or if you rather do it yourself.

Once you decide to decorate your workplace or just your work area, you can talk to your seniors, or managers. Since the different people have different ideas about Christmas it is always better to know other peoples opinions and then decorate the place.

The workplace is not a home so you will need the decorations, which will appeal to all and will look good in turn. The decorations are available in the market and in any dollar shops. The decorations as be strings of Christmas lights, Angels, and the cardboard Santa’s and other small decorations are available in the market during Christmas time.

Usually during the season, the local market carry lots of these decorations are on sale. You can pick up some of these. If budget is not a constraint you can opt for a nice small Christmas tree and try to decorate it with different types of decors like porcelain or ceramic Christmas decorations.

As already mentioned, speak to you your managers, employees or fellow workers and find out their likes and dislikes and also you can involve them in helping you decorating the workplace. May be you will be facing a little difference of opinion, when so many people are involved but the Christmas season is of give and take and you can work things out and without being rude to others, you can still decorate your work area by adding flowers to the place on the Christmas day.

 If all your fellow workers are interested in decorating the work place then can help you in finding the decorations and decorating the place. In addition, in case any difference of opinion occurs you can easily defuse that as the Christmas season is a season of joy and a season of give and take and no matter what you will be able to decorate your work place and spread joy to everyone.

The Christmas is a very special time of the year; all are busy with decorating their houses, their shops, offices etc. This year are you prepared to decorate your house?

Try involving kids in the decorations, there are many shops, which sell readymade items for the decoration, you can help them do their own decorating either by buying the decorations from the shops or make your own. Making your own things is much more fun and the children can proudly inform everyone that they have done it themselves.

Can also try to involve kids in making their own trimmings and other decorative items. You can help them in choosing the items from the shop or making their own which will be fun for them as well as they will proud and can tell everyone that they have decorated the house by themselves.

One of the benefits in making their own Christmas decorations is the emotion of fulfillment that they will feel with the finished product. No matter whether the child is a six year old or a sixteen-year, they have the sense of achievement of doing something even if it is a small thing like an angel or a picture of Santa Claus.  In addition, if it is their own creation they will look forward to invite their friend’s home and enjoy themselves.
Making of their own decorations or paintings can be fun for the child and very proud moment when other family members and friends appreciate them. 

The craft paper or the glue is easily available at your local stationery shop and you should let your children go and decide for themselves what they would like to make of it. This is the time when they can display their talent and in turn your will be saving a lot of money and enjoy working with them.

You will also be spending your time with the children, which normally you must be not getting due to your jobs or other commitments. Therefore, these are the season of enjoyment and do so together. Besides, you and your children will likely enjoy the time that is being spent together. 

Once you are ready with the decorations, it is time to display them, ask your child where he/she wants to hang and help them ensure that the hard work put into the decorations does not go to waste.  When the time is right, you and your child could spend the rest of the day or evening decorating your home for Christmas. 

Once in a year there is Christmas, The season of give and take. During Christmas, we would love to shower gifts on our near and dear ones. The main worry of most of the people is how much to spend on gifts; Most of the shops have bargains and discounts during this period. So keep an eye on such shops pick up the things you like.

As most stores have sales throughout the year, but all the retailers give good discounts during the December month. These shopkeepers know there are many people doing last minute shopping. The best way to shop is to first decide what to buy and for whom. Then find out the price of the same and wait for the same thing to come on sale. Usually during the sale, the price of product may not be refundable, or later the shopkeeper might refuse to take back the stuff because he specially has it for the Christmas and after that, there will be no demand for this.

The discount is not a good idea always, as you tend to go overboard and pick up things, which will not be of any use and are not refundable or returnable. It is like buying a woolen coat in summer.

So before you start shopping find out about the products which are on sale and what policy they follow. Because if you give somebody a gift which they do not like they will not be able to return it. So keep you eyes open sometimes you might get a very good bargain.

Happy Christmas

Happy Shopping

Arranging for a Christmas party and do you want your guest’s to have fun? Why not all have full right to have fun and if it is such a special occasion like Christmas than what are you waiting for. Check out some of the games given below:

Game 1: Santa beard: Keep a bowl of balls made of cotton (Sants’s beard) on the table. To Keep a jar of Vaseline too. Make two teams of around 5 members in each. Apply little Vaseline on the chins of all the members. Give some time limit in which they all have to run to the table of the cotton balls and try to stick as many as possible. The same chance is given to the next team. The team which has maximum number of balls or Santa’s beard wins. Take pictures of all the team members as a remembrance. Keep plenty of water and tissue to take off the Vaseline later on.
Game 2: Packing Santa’s Bag:
This game tests the IQ and memory of the contestants. This game is meant for small group who prefer quiet game. The game is known as packing Santa’s bag. one person starts by saying “I packed Santa’s bag and I put socks”, the other person will say “I packed Santa’s socks and pajamas, it goes on in this way adding one by one things and mentioning. In case if somebody misses out any single item, then you are out.

Game 3: Scavenger Hunt Game:
Playing game should be full of fun. To remind the guests their childhood, play the scavenger hunt game. You can have four people in a team. List of items that the guests need to find should be made. It can be anything from a particular color string, or a particular type of jewelry. Play game creatively and have fun. Finding such interesting things brings back the childhood. As this game is played in team they become friends with other guests.

Game 4: Hershey’s Kisses
One of the most popular game is Hershey’s kisses. Two teams with two bowls of kisses at the end of the room. Each team member wear the gloves which are oversized. The team members have to run to the end of the room where kisses are kept, wearing the gloves have to open the kisses and eat it. The team which eats the most wins. The team members not only have fun but also get to eat the kisses.

Christmas in South Africa is during summer. As the season is hot, during these holidays, people go on beaches and mountains to celebrate. Christmas celebration involves singing carols and participation in processions. School being closed for the Christmas holiday, activities like swimming and camping begins.

For Christmas, homes are decorated with pine branches and Christmas fir with white cotton wool on it to denote it as snow. Presents for the children are kept either under the Christmas trees or in the stockings hung specially for this purpose.

Family and friends are invited for the special feast of Lunch and traditional dinner, which includes varieties of mouth-watering delicacies.

To have fun, people either visit beaches to enjoy the cool swim in this hot season or just gather at the town square and march and sing to get into the Christmas spirit.

Ethiopia has a unique way to celebrate Christmas festival. In Ethiopia, it is celebrated on 7th January the day when Christians commemorate the revelation of Jesus to humanity, i.e., Epiphany. On Christmas Eve, many people take part in the procession moving towards the capital city of the country. These people moving about in dark pray, chant, and while religious service present a colourful sight on Christmas morning.

As Africa is not a very developed country, the celebrations are for short duration compared to other developed countries. Christmas being during hot season, people enjoy their meals in a lawn under the shades of tree and not on a formal setting of table and chairs.

Practical items like cloth, pencils, sweets, books etc. are used as exchange gifts for Christmas. People being comparatively poor cannot afford to give costly gifts but still they want to surprise their family and friends so they use these thoughtful things, which will be used by them. Africans traditionally have a very strong pervasive aspect of humbleness and humility, this aspect shows in their celebration of Christmas too.