Best Lights Award
During the Christmas season, we enjoy doing a few simple traditions that bring joy to others in small ways. Every year on our Christmas countdown paper chain we like to include a drive or walk to see Christmas lights. As my kids got older, I was looking for ways to keep them engaged and teach them to think of others during the holiday season. Enter, the Best Lights Award! We keep it easy and just give the award to a few houses we like with a store-bought treat. But this could easily snowball into a full day activity: making a special treat to give, crafting a voting matrix with your math-minded kiddo, helping your child learn to write your last name on the award, or taking the time to draw a map of the neighborhood lights to share with a friend.
How We Give The Best Lights Award
Over the past few years, taking a walk around our neighborhood and doling out a few “Best Lights Awards” has been easy, inexpensive and fun for our family. It gets us out, lets us enjoy where we live and allows us to show our appreciation for the people who make Christmas magical in our neck of the woods.
Free Printable
I thought this might be a fun tradition for you to add to your holiday festivities, so I had Black Julep Design create a darling printable to make it even easier on all of us!
I am hoping your family might enjoy giving the best lights award too! Just right click on the image, save and print!
What simple traditions do you love at Christmas time? Who do you think will earn the best lights award in your neighborhood this year? I can’t wait for your family to try this!
I love this idea! So simple! We are gonna do it! Thank you so much Brooke!
Thank you!!!
We have made this part of our Christmas tradition for the past 12 years! Being a military family and moving to new neighborhoods has made this tradition especially great for our family to get to know new neighbors and get out of our comfort zone by thanking others in our community for making our Christmas holidays away from our extended family merry and bright!
I love that! Such a fun tradition!
We loved doing this so much last year! I am doing it again this year, we appreciate all your service ideas!
It is such a simple way to bring a little joy. Glad you loved it!
We received a reward certificate and it brought a smile and joy to our hearts. It was a special Christmas gift. Thank you!
So awesome! I love it!
Every year, we make cinnamon rolls and take them to anyone new who moved into our little town the previous year. We carol and welcome them to town. Then we always take one to a lady who is one month younger than president Nelson who used to live in our town but now is in a care center. We have done this for 25 years.
We also GIVE Christmas away. When our oldest son went on his mission 15 years ago, we thought since he was out serving the Lord we would serve others. We gave away Christmas that year and have never gone back to getting. We use the money we would have used for family gifts to provide Christmas to homeless, the needy, orphans and many others. It’s the best tradition ever! Headed to a Mexico orphanage next Friday to spread some Christmas cheer!
This is amazing. Thanks for the great inspiration.