Holiday Hangers

Christmas is all about family togetherness … and your kids are likely the ones that are constantly asking for more time with you. Over Christmas you get to indulge them – they won’t know what hit them! They may even be so surprised they faint … and you can lie down on the floor next to them and have a little nap

Here’s a lovely activity you can do together in the lead up to Christmas – if you follow the Roman Catholic traditions, around the same time you are decorating your tree. These door knob notes are super easy and suitable for kids of all ages – although younger ones might need a bit of help handling the scissors to cut them out.

They print out one per standard size sheet of paper – but you may like to glue them to construction cardboard, or even cardboard recycled from a cereal box or something similar, to help with durability and looks! It may even be handy to glue an ‘Enter’ and a ‘Do Not Enter’ door knob note on some card, back to back, to leave on your bathroom door for when you have all of your friends and family around.

One small side note – get out your peeping glasses and check the little addendums down the bottom of each knob note before you print them out (it is all too easy to decide which one to use just on the basis of it being your favourite animal). All of them have a copyright warning down the bottom, but some have little notes above that which make them only suitable for some rooms of the house. For instance, your relatives might look at you a little askew if you put the ‘Do Not Enter … Good Child Sleeping’ sign on the reverse of the ‘Enter’ sign on your bathroom door! Or even the ‘Ssh … I’m Sleeping’ one for your bathroom (even though it may be true). The ‘Keep out – Top Secret Mission in Progress’ knob note might be more truthful and effective