Teach your littles to stir in their intentions this season and what the magic behind each ingredient represents! Share a childhood memory with them while you cook in the kitchen.

A Winter Meal Plan you could try:

Breakfast: Deer Pancakes with bacon for the antlers and a strawberry for the nose, half cut marshmallow and chocolate chips for the eyes

Lunch: Warm Ham Croissant Sandwiches with cheese

Dinner: Slow Cooked Stew and rolls

Dessert: Kitchen Sink Yule Cookies, make a chocolate chip cookie dough mix and blend with peanut butter and chocolate chips, crushed oreos and red and green sprinkles

Drink: Vanilla 🌾 ½ cup milk, 5 oz. chopped milk chocolate, 1 tsp vanilla extract. for happiness, love, and lust

Peanut Butter 🌰 1 cup skim milk, 2 oz. chopped dark chocolate, ¼ cup peanut butter, add cream to taste. for wealth, love, and fortune.

Peppermint 🍬 1 cup whole milk, ½ cup chopped milk chocolate, 1 peppermint candy. for healing, love, psychic abilities, and purification.

Altar Ideas and Crafts:

Yule Witch Balls

Nature Garland

Bird Seed Ornaments

Winter Solstice Crowns

Snow Lanterns

Gingerbread Houses

Cinnamon Ornaments

Orange Pomanders

Yule Wands

Yule Goat

Pinecone Wish Ornament

Altar ideas: tealights, cinnamon sticks, pine, spell jars, snow water, yule log, wish pinecones, yule blend salt, wooden spoon enchanted, yule wand

A magical art project using snow water

Materials: paper, snow water, a white crayon, watercolor paints and a paint brush. Draw a snowman or snowwoman and draw some snowflakes with the white crayon. Now use your snow water and watercolor paints to reveal the picture drawn.

Expanding Imagination through MUD Kitchen Recipes

Snow, Berries, Sticks, Pine Needles, Mud, Rocks, Cinnamon, and Star Anise

*This is a great way to teach your children to ground with the elements but also connect with the elements too! Leave it as an offering.

Decorate a tree for the wildlife: hang birdseed ornaments, create popcorn garlands, and hang apples or other dried fruit on a outdoor tree. Feeding the animals outdoors is important.

Thank nature by leaving an offering that’s eco friendly like birdseeds or nuts.

Exploring Winter's Arrival with a Camera Step outdoors and observe the season's arrival by looking for signs of winter. Take pictures of different winter animals, the trees getting bare, and snow. You could capture these moments through pictures to review later on and reflect upon the experience.

Take a Solstice Walk, Make a cup of your favorite hot chocolate recipe in it and dress weather appropriate. As you take the walk observe the changes and reflect on the intentions.

Check out this month’s book recommendations: (Click the links to listen to the stories)

Old Mother Frost

The Shortest Day

Other books to read:

The Winter Solstice

A Solstice Tree for Jenny

The Return of the Light

Luna's Yuletide Traditions: Winter Solstice Family Celebrations

Sun Bread

Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Hot Cocoa Calm

Create your own story together. After you have celebrated Winter Solstice and Yule activities with your family, recreate it by drawing pictures on paper and write how you celebrated. Include photographs and recipes. Save it for the years to come.

Have a family story time whether you read books or share stories of past or future times. But enjoy this time with a warm drink and cookies to share.