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Does anyone else feel like for all of the Christmas songs there should be at least a couple tunes for Thanksgiving? I, for one, am beyond excited to have our family over for our first Thanksgiving in our forever home. Our century-old farmhouse is the perfect place to host and decorate for this special occasion.
In our family, Thanksgiving officially kicks off the holiday season. We all have to be separate places on Christmas morning, but for Thanksgiving, we are always together. This years’ total attendance will be 6 adults, 5 (young) children, and 3 dogs.
I picked up all of the necessary decorations and table settings at Big Lots. They’re both adorable and kid-friendly — on a budget. The rustic holiday look with buffalo check, burlap accents, and red vintage feel was exactly what we need to keep the farmhouse-feel.
Kid-Friendly Holiday Decorating Tips:
Limit the breakables.
Instead of trying to keep breakable decorations away from my littles, I just eliminate them almost entirely. The items I’ve decorated with are sturdy, inexpensive, and made of soft or plastic materials. No glass here!
Get them involved.
Want your kids to respect the items you decorate with? Have them help you pick out the items at Big Lots! Getting them involved in the process gets them excited to have the items displayed in your home.
Also? Kids love holiday chores. Get them excited to have company over by enlisting their help setting the table! My kids treat it like a craft project. They get to ‘put together’ all of the seats, plates, and settings.
Don’t take it too seriously.
I know so many people who take their holiday decorating to a whole other level. That’s great, but it also can set you up for major disappointment when something is out of place or doesn’t look right.
Instead, have fun with it. Do you want to put your tree up now? Go for it! You don’t want to stick to one theme? Then don’t! The holidays should be a fun and happy time for everyone. So let it be.
If decorating farmhouse chic isn’t your thing, Big Lots also has a super gorgeous blue and gold line of decor as well as a colorful line! So something for everyone!
What’s your favorite holiday decor trend this season?
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This is all such amazing decor! I’ve always liked Big Lots. I’ll have to stop by and pick some of this up.
Kid friendly is always good in my broken.house. That way I dont have to stress about things getting
I love how you decorated that so perfectly for your kids! Everything looks absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing!
I believe that Christmas is really for children. I mean, it is for everybody, but I remember being young and having loads of fun then, as I do now. HAHAHA.
Nowadays we make a great effort decorating and cooking, for my younger cousins. We do this because they enjoy it so much. And now, as adults, we enjoy Christmas cus we want the children to have so much fun with it, as we did. It’s the circle of life.
I love these tips. I think all kids should have the opportunity to get involved with decorating. It’s important that we don’t try and make it too perfect or fancy. That’s not what the holidays are about!
I like your ideas but I always wanted to have a simple Christmas decoration in our house. Since I have a little kid I prepare only to have a Christmas Tree, a wreath and Christmas pillows as our decoration.
I love the idea of Thanksgiving songs! In Canada, though, Thanksgiving is in October so it’s not really part of the holidays.
My favorite holiday trend is your entire living room! SO CUTE!
These are awesome! I never think about kid-friendly decor because i dont’ have kids. These are awesome ideas.
I am all about Big Lots and we go there pretty often. Love how you decorated your living room! Awesome job!
I went to Big Lots last weekend and bought several things. The best part was that basically every Christmas decoration that I bought had an additional discount. Like you said, they have something for everyone and every taste lol Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Your decorations look fantastic. I wish I had seen this when my son was still in the grab everything phase. Now, I can put out whatever I wish and he doesn’t notice it, let alone bother it. Unfortunately, the kitten is another story entirely…
Great ideas to get kids involved in holiday decorations. Big Lots has great stuff to decorate for the Holidays.
I love the decor you bought! It is gorgeous. Big Lots always has amazing decorations to buy for every holiday of the year.
I agree with getting kids involved on picking the decorations for the Christmas. They would be so excited about it. And Christmas are for kids after all.
The red wreaths on the wall looks so great.. Great choices here. And yup. We should involved the kids when ot comes to decorating the house.
The red wreaths on the wall looks so great.. Great choices here. And yup. We should involved the kids when ot comes to decorating the house.
Amazing decor, I got to say, the car touch was amazing idea and loved that. Also, colors are so well together.
Beautiful decor, love the red truck the most.So festive and yet different from the normal tinsels.Getting kids involved in decorating a place for a festival makes them appreciate and value festival traditions.
You have done such a great job decorating, I love the red color theme. You have definitely not over did it, and your home looks festive and cosy.
I love this ideas, where kids are kept busy atleast for some time.
Thanks for sharing.
Big Lots is great! Thanks for all this inspo. I absolutely love decorating for the holidays and I’m feeling super motivated to get started on it now.
This is great, as I know some decoration is definitely not kid friendly. It scares me at times when I go shopping and see them. Getting them involved is also an amazing idea.. As they are even more excited for Christmas.
These are such awesome ideas. I’m going to try all of them this year!
I love how you have decorated. It looks so festive and its plus it’s kid friendly x
Laura
https://www.beautywithlala.com/
Your motifs are truly cute. They are clean and refreshing to the eyes.
I love this post and love the look you created with items form Big Lots! I am going there today and I love going in there to check out the latest and greatest 🙂 Great post and thank you for sharing!
The place looks beautiful. Feels very warm and Christmassy.
Definitely dont have too many fragile items for the kids to break. Definitely let them help put them up thats part of making the memories.
I agree that when decorating, we should not really take it seriously. It must be fun. It’s our expression after all.