Articles: Christmas Ideas

Perhaps you send a family photo card every year for Christmas,
and need a new take on your tradition. Or maybe you are posting
a photo card for the first time, and want to send something that
reflects the fun approach that you and yours have to life.
Either way, one of these half-dozen creative ideas for Christmas
card poses will work for you.

Family Ties

Stand in a circle and wrap yourselves in a strand of Christmas
tree lights (The person setting the timer on the camera can wrap
his or her arm with lights only. Recruit a family friend if you
would like to all be completely bound together.). Stick bows for
gift packages onto each family member's head, and hold tinsel or
torn pieces of wrapping paper in your teeth.

The Gift of Yourself

Wrap a furniture box to look like a present. Leave the box
upright and snap a picture of the kids "popping" out of the top
of it. If you can get a hold of enough packing peanuts, turn the
box on its side and take a picture of the children and the
packing material spilling out onto the floor.

Snow Angels

Bundle your family up and go lie in the snow and make snow
angels. The picture on your card can be of the snow angels
themselves, or of everyone making the snow angels. For a more
humorous take on the snow angel theme, every can dress in
Bermuda shorts and other summer attire and make snow angels.
Write "Think Warm" or "Wishing You Warm Holiday greetings" on
your Christmas cards or postcards. Be sure to have plenty of
blankets and hot cocoa to get your family's blood flowing again
after posing for this picture.

When life gives you lemons...

...make lemonade and write "Happy Holidays" in the snow. Not
everyone will appreciate a Christmas card with an image that
looks like someone wrote their Christmas greeting in the snow
after too much cider. But a good-humored bachelor or someone
with a tinkle-happy puppy - included in the photo, of course -
could get away with using lemonade to write his holiday greeting
after a good snow.

Do you have a large family, or a boy, a girl, and a baby?
Recreate the nativity scene in your home or backyard for a
touching and sentimental card. This will work even better if one
of you is named Joseph or Mary.

Set the scene...again.

Make it a yearly tradition for your family to choose one of the
Christmas cards you receive each year to recreate into next
year's Christmas pose. Recreate the scene as accurately as you
possibly can. You may start getting some very interesting
Christmas cards from those who would like to see you recreate
their card next year.

Take the time to add a more personal touch to your Christmas
cards this year by using one of these ideas, or coming up with
one of your own. Your glad tidings are more likely to be saved
and treasured by the recipients when a fun - or funny - photo of
your family is part of the package.

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