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We're a week into the holidays and you're bored already. Ditch your phone and try something on our boredom buster list (free download below).

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It's always a good time to start a new family tradition. Kids and teens can initiate these new traditions too. Here are some suggestions, but the sky is the limit.
  1. Look at Christmas lights - in your city or local neighbourhood. 
  2. Christmas cooking - gingerbread, shortbread, rocky road, rum balls...
  3. Go to a Carols By Candlelight - Australia's hot summers are perfect for an outdoor Christmas concert. The candles are usually battery operated these days, but when I was a kid we had traditional candles.
  4. Make your own Bonbons - You can buy kits from craft and department stores. Add treats from you local discount store, and chocolates or candy canes too.
  5. Donate some things to charity - choose some things that you have outgrown and don't use any more and donate them to a local charity.
  6. Invent your own version of elf on the shelf. Pop a Santa hat on a Barbie doll, or use a teddy bear. Set them up in cheeky scenarios each day.
  7. Have a family Christmas movie marathon - you could even set the telly or a projector up outside and have an outdoor cinema.
  8. Have a Lego challenge or other family competition - my daughter has a large Lego collection so we drag it out at Christmas and have a competition to see who can make the best Lego models. You could have play a board game or computer game too.
  9. Play beach or backyard cricket, kick the footy, play frisbee, or volleyball in the ball. 
  10. Wear funny Christmas shirts - you could even design your own.
  11. Make a family Christmas playlist
  12. Go to a Christmas Eve Church service - this is one of my favourite things about Christmas.

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