C loves to put on parties for her friends and by friends I mean mainly girlfriends. She adores to do it. This year I helped her and came up with Yuletide cats because I have been meaning to use the theme for years but didn’t get to it before this year. I over thought freaking out the kids with Yuletide cats. Finding a Yuletide cat that was not scary was a challenge I went with a cat from canva then made the invite ridiculously peppered with socks and the wording not lined up. The Yuletide Cats can be scary to some and I was cautious of offending people. At the party, we chatted about the Cats and Iceland. How every night you have to do a service. I kept the lore g- rated we had little guys. After we went to neighbors and helped them. I had asked some of my neighbors who are older if we could help with something. Here’s the sheet that each group had, we also had adults with them.
We brought the cookies to the neighbors we did the service scavenger hunt to and door bell ditched the rest of the cookies. The kids loved it so much! They got socks and played games before they left.
My idea for the sock exchange was that most of the kids were the same size but one. So for the one I got cheap socks in a pack of 5 and wrapped them up so he had choices like the other kids. On this one we gave stealing a choice these kids were more into opening the gifts than stealing.
With kids, if you have neurodivergent kids in the bunch —exchanges will have to be different then with the stealing rule because they get attached and don’t understand. Therefore getting upset! If you do you can do a gift exchange with no stealing at that point and a story so the gifts will be passed from the right to left as the story dictates and stop then open. You can use AI to make a story with right and left if you don’t have the time on the Yuletide cats.