Christmas
Welcome to Mum’s Grapevine’s Christmas HQ!
Here you’ll find our favourite gifts for kids of every age; loads of super simple Christmas crafts; delicious festive recipes and fancy food; DIY decoration ideas and wrapping inspiration; plus tips to keep you organised through the silly season.
Ho Ho Ho xo
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Clever cookie: 7 delicious ways to use leftover gingerbread houses
If there’s one thing more satisfying than Christmas lunch itself it’s the mouth-watering morsels that get picked at for days afterwards. And among the leftover […]
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How to make snowy Santa footprints for Christmas morning
An Aussie Christmas is more surf than snow, but that doesn’t mean that the jolly man in red doesn’t have a dusting of the white […]
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11 Christmas Eve traditions for modern families
The excitement of Christmas Eve is only topped by the joy of Christmas morning itself – there’s just something enchanting about the night before the […]
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7 ways to say goodbye to Elf on the Shelf
Christmas is so close you can almost smell the glazed ham, so it’s time to start prepping for a little farewell – thousands of little […]
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A sleigh full of gift ideas for baby’s first Christmas
There’s a first for everything, but nothing is more special than the first time you get to celebrate Christmas as a family. No present under […]
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How To Keep Babies Sleep Routine Over Christmas
Christmas time is filled to the brim with parties, get-togethers and sweet Santa bedtime stories – it’s one of the best times to be a […]
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13 super cute Elf on the Shelf printables
Oh, little Elf on the Shelf – what adorable mischief you get up to. From the minute this little guy in red arrives from the […]
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Book Review: That Christmas Feeling
That Christmas Feeling by Lili Wilkinson Can you feel it too? The pep in your step? The flutter inside? The happiness all around? Christmas is […]
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16 more (choc-free) ways to fill an Advent calendar
The Christmas countdown is so much more fun when the little ones run to the Advent every morning in December, eager to get their daily […]
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Count it down: 17 creative DIY Advent calendars
Kids love a good countdown, and crossing off the days until the jolly man in red arrives is the perfect way to build Christmas cheer. There […]
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10 Elf on the Shelf arrival ideas
Our favourite little elves are on their way from the North Pole, heading to families all over Australia to sprinkle some Christmas magic. So it’s […]
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Wrapping hack: how to gift wrap a present in 15 secs flat
If you’ve got a mountain of presents to wrap here’s how a professional wrapper from Japan’s Takashimaya department store gets it done in less than 15 […]
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Santa cams: helping kids stay on Santa’s ‘nice list’
Come December, every kiddo wants to be on Santa’s ‘nice list’. It takes good listening, no fighting and, the big one, no tantrums, to make your way on […]
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12 fun fillings for DIY Christmas crackers
Christmas crackers look gorgeous on the outside, but it’s what’s inside that counts too. When it comes to homemade bon bons, the sky’s the limit […]
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21 hiliarous Christmas jokes for homemade bon bons
Ho, ho, ho! Inside every Christmas cracker, there’s a jolly joke just waiting to jump out. And a great thing about hand-making bon bons is hand-picking the funnies. There […]