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Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year for memory making family activities! Get a photo with Santa, have him send a letter to your kid for just the cost of a postage stamp, see some holiday lights in St. Louis or trim your tree with homemade ornaments!

Get your twinkle on, it’s Christmas light time! Pour some hot cocoa in a travel mug, download your favorite holiday tunes and put your kids in the car–because I’ve got a list of St. Louis’ best Christmas light displays!  Updated for 2023 Every year we celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with trip to a couple of these …

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Jingle bells ringing, jolly elves singing, hot hot hot chocolate…all while magically touring the Polar Express! What a way to celebrate the holidays!  Elves will dance, hot cocoa & cookies will be served and your kids will get to relive the storybook tale of kid who rode a train all the way to the North …

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Every year the kids write a letter to Santa, but how often does he write back? If you act NOW you can get a response from the Big Man in Red, with a little help from the Elves at the US Post Office. It’s even post marked from the North Pole! North Pole, Alaska, that …

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Do you want to hang a memory on your tree? There’s a lot of great ways to make photo ornaments, but my favorite is the Floating Photo Globe. Let me show you how to make one without any fancy tools or machines. What is a Floating Photo Ornament? A floating photo ornament has an image …

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If you like artificial Christmas trees more than the real thing, you might find one thing seriously lacking in your Christmas decor…the wonderful aroma of pine floating through your house! I really miss the “smells of Christmas” from my childhood–though I don’t really miss the messy dropped pine needles and fire hazard of a real …

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Make plans to go see a million twinkle lights sparkling on the historic brick buildings of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. This is a family friendly, outdoor event on the home campus of Anheuser-Busch in Soulard. It has everything you need to kick off a St. Louis Christmas: holiday cheer, Clydesdales, s’mores, games for the kids, beer …

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Nothing says Merry Christmas like a sparkly Minecraft Creeper ornament nestled in your Christmas tree! Minecraft ornaments are easy to make — you just need cube shaped blank ornament you can decorate with squares of glitter tape or paint. Minecraft blocks in the game are made to look like 8×8 pixels, so divide your cube …

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