If your family celebrates with a Christmas tree, this can be a super-fun one. Your kids do need to be a certain age, but a sleepover by the Christmas tree can be magical. Once kids reach age 7 or 8, they should be able to handle it this successfully. You can use blow-up mattresses or their own kid-size mattress pulled from their room. Parents can snuggle in with the kids, or claim seniority and stake out the couch. This is one sleepover the kids will likely remember for years.
Emily Westbrooks is a freelance writer and blogger from Maine. Based in Dublin, she's married to an Irishman and an adoptive mom to Maya and Noah. She writes about travel, parenting, adoption and fostering for sites like Romper and Moxie & Mabel, as well as for her own blog, From China Village.