Your Baby’s First Christmas: 15 Ideas For Festive Family Traditions

How To Mark Your Baby’s First Christmas And Make It Special For All Of You

If it’s your baby’s first Christmas, you might be looking for ways to make it special and to mark the festive occasion in a memorable way. As well as being a special occasion for all of you, it’s also a good time to start new family Christmas traditions you can do every year to kick start your holiday season.

Here are 10 ideas to mark your baby’s first Christmas and get the festivities off to sparkling start.

Ideas For Your Baby’s First Christmas

1. Don’t Worry About It Being Perfect

The biggest tip we’d give for your baby’s first Christmas? Don’t worry about it being perfect. We know you know they won’t be aware of it, but you will – and you want to make it special. But don’t put unnecessary stress on yourself, which will just make you more stressed and take the magic out of the day.

Start small, with lovely traditions you can do each year.

2. Buy A First Christmas Ornament

A memorable way to mark your babies first Christmas is to buy their first Christmas ornament. This can be a small or special decoration and means that this way, you’ll remember this every time you decorate for Christmas.

You can even buy a new ornament every year to add to the growing collection.

3. Buy Or Make A Christmas Costume

It’s practically a rite of passage that your babies first Christmas has to involve a costume or special babygo – in the shape of Santa, Mrs Claus, a snowman, and so on.

As well as making the day more festive, it will be very cute.

4. Start New Family Holiday Traditions

Now that you’re a family, it’s a lovely way to mark the festive season with your own family Christmas traditions. While your baby might be small, it’s fun to start their first Christmas with family holiday traditions you can do every year. This might be anything from watching films together, to going to look at the Christmas lights – small festive things you do together each year.

5. Take An Annual Family Photo

Why not mark your baby’s first Christmas by taking a family photo together each year?

Ugly Christmas jumpers are optional!

6. Take A Festive Photo Of Your Baby

An idea to start on your baby’s first Christmas is to take a photo of them in the same place – in front of the TV, or with a special decoration – or wearing the same prop – such as a Santa hat – to start a collection of photos each year. Once you have a number of photos, it’s fun to make a collage to show how much they’ve grown each year.

7. Their First Christmas Stocking

Mark your babies first Christmas with their first Christmas stocking. This is something you can bring out each year and will mean you always have memories of their first festive season.

8. Start Your Own Grown-Up Christmas Tradition

Family Christmas traditions are lovely, but don’t forget you’re doing all the work. Start your own, more relaxing Christmas tradition – be it relaxing by the tree with a glass of wine, or wrapping presents while watching a Christmas film

9. Christmas Cards And First Christmas Mementoes

While your baby might be a little bit too young for crafting just yet, you can mark their first Christmas by making mementoes or keepsakes for friends and relatives.

Good ideas include:

• Cards made using their painted footprint or finger print – you can then turn this into a Christmas shape like a tree or star.
• Make a mould of their foot or hand print using air drying clay that you can then paint in Christmas colours and add glitter.

10. Meet Santa

Mark their first Christmas with a visit to Santa. They won’t remember it, but you’ll always have the photo.

11. Christmas Crafting

While your baby might be a little but too young to take part just yet, Christmas crafting is a fun way to mark the season

When they are older, they can get involved in the crafting themselves and make decorations to keep or give to people as presents. Here’s out idea for easy Christmas crafting.

12 Read Christmas Books Together

A lovely Christmas tradition to start on your baby’s first Christmas is to read Christmas books together. If you start a collection of Christmas books now, you can add to it every year and it will make a wonderfully nostalgic memory for you each year.

Read about our favourite children’s Christmas books.

13. Wear Christmas Jumpers

Everyone loves an ugly Christmas sweater, so get them involved from the start (yes, you can even buy them in baby sizes).

14. Everyone Has New Christmas Pyjamas

A Christmas tradition that you can start even from your babys first Christmas is for everyone to have new pyjamas you open on Christmas Eve together. Most clothes shops now make matching sets for the whole family, including baby Christmas pyjamas and even matching outfits for pets.

15. Start Elf On The Shelf

Elf on the Shelf is a new tradition that, we’re not going to lie, can be stressful for parents. However, even babies will love it and it’s a fun thing you can do each year.

If you need ideas for naming your holiday visitor, read some background on the tradition and Elf on the Shelf names.

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