Silver and Gold: Decorating Your Christmas Tree with the Entire Family

​Perhaps no other holiday is more family-focused than Christmas. With that in mind, if your family celebrates Christmas, you may be intent on developing some marvelous holiday traditions that will endure through the years. Included in that process is likely to be a consideration of when and how you will go about decorating the family Christmas tree.
 
Involve the Entire Family in the Decision Making Process
When it comes to decorating your family Christmas tree, there are a number of preliminary considerations. When the time comes to make these decisions, take the step of including the entire family in the process, including children in age-appropriate ways

The preliminary decisions that need to be made include when the tree will go up and whether or not the tree will be real or artificial. Of course, you may find that your children want to put the tree up directly after Halloween. Most people try to wait until after Thanksgiving to put up a Christmas tree, particularly a live one. With that noted, long gone are the days when there were so-called "hard and fast rules" about putting up and taking down a Christmas tree. A family coming together can make that decision on their own.
 
Deciding whether to go natural or buy artificial is the second preliminary matter to discuss as a family. In the final analysis, there are pros and cons to going either direction in regard to a Christmas tree. Once these preliminary decisions are made, the next step is actually selecting a tree.
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​Selecting a Christmas Tree
Whether natural or artificial, the family can be involved as a unit in selecting the tree. For example, oftentimes box stores present both artificial and natural trees during the holiday season. A trip to that location with the family typically is not a challenging task.
 
If the decision is made to go to a tree farm, that definitely can be turned into an adventure for the family. At many tree farms, you have the option of actually walking about the place to select a tree still in the ground. This really brings the family up close and personal to all aspects of selecting, placing, and trimming a Christmas tree.
 
Special Silver and Gold Ornaments
There is something special about silver and gold decorations at Christmastime. This includes silver and gold decorations on a Christmas tree.
 
One perfect thing you can do at Christmastime, an activity that can be come an annual endeavor, is allowing each family member to select a silver or gold decoration to be added to the Christmas tree. Obtaining the perfect silver or gold addition to the tree need not be a complicated task. Indeed, decorations like silver bells or silver ornaments can readily be found through shops that market online like the Silver Superstore.
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​Make Decorating the Tree an Event
There certainly are challenges associated with decorating a Christmas tree. However, the task of putting up and trimming a Christmas tree need not be relegated to a tiresome task. Rather, you can make tree trimming an occasion for your family.
 
You might want to start the whole affair with a family meal. When finished, you and yours can turn to trimming the tree. Indeed, you might want to make decorating the entire house for the holidays part of the process. 
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​Tending to a Natural Tree
If your family goes the natural route for a Christmas tree, there needs to a set action plan for tending to and caring for the tree after it is up and trimmed. There are two key elements associated with tending to a natural tree at Christmastime.
 
First, you need to make certain that the tree properly is watered. Ultimately, this will involve watering the tree daily. However, when the tree initially is brought into your home and put up, you will need to water it multiple times throughout the day. All family members, except the very little ones, should share in the responsibility for ensuring that the Christmas tree properly is hydrated.
 
Second, even when a Christmas tree is properly watered, needles will fall off. In addition, they can tend to dried needles can accumulate on the branches as well. Part of the shared responsibility to tending to and caring for the tree needs to include needle patrol and keeping everything associated with the tree clean and tidy. This keeps a tree in a highly presentable position. Moreover, it reduces the risks associated with fire that are inherent in a drying Christmas tree.
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Author

Jessica Kane is a writer for Silver Superstore, home of the internet’s silver Christmas ornaments.