This fun family holiday tradition is sure to make everyone involved smile. Bring cheer to your town by giving out Christmas Light Awards all while building memories with your family.
Do you like to drive around at night during the holidays to look at homes decorated with Christmas lights?! My family does too.
It’s one of our favorite Christmas family traditions we enjoy each year.
We make an evening of it by getting hot chocolate from Starbucks. It’s an extra special treat because each kiddo gets to have their own!
We have seen some pretty amazingly decorated houses. One house in our town makes a duck tape mural on their garage door. Two years ago they did The Grinch. This year was a Charlie Brown theme.
Pretty epic-right!
To ramp up our yearly Christmas light family night I came up with a way to celebrate the hard work neighbors put into their homes for the holidays. It also adds in an extra element of excitement for the kids too.
Christmas Light Awards
It only seems appropriate that people should be recognized and awarded for all their efforts to bring holiday cheer to the town.
I created some certificates to hand out during our drive looking at Christmas lights. These certificates each have a theme.
At the beginning of our family drive I announce that we all have now been deemed Christmas light “judges”. It is now our job the find the best lights in town!
I think your family would really enjoy becoming Christmas light judges also.
Here’s How It Works
Print out the certificates and date and sign them. You can put your family’s last name or the person who gives the award can sign their name.
This year we took turns giving the awards and personally signed the certificate.
An additional fun twist to these awards is you can knock on the receivers door and give it to them personally or you can be sneaky and tape it to there door.
Either way it’s super fun to give these awards to the best lit homes in your town.
Award Categories
- The Minimalist – Simple and clean light display
- The White Lights – Most beautiful white lights display
- The Inflatables – Most inflatables per square foot
- The Reason for the Season – Best Nativity display
- The Griswold – Sparing no expense of Christmas spirit!
- The Disco Fever – Best projection lights and/or music
- Blank – make-up your own award to give!
The Minimalist
This home will have a simple and clean light display. They will have the windows and home trimmed and lights carefully placed. Or possibly they may only have one tree decorated or one window decorated.
The White Lights House
This home will be decorated will all white lights! No multi colors to be found on this house.
The Inflatables House
Every inch of this homes front yard is filled with inflatable decorations. Maybe they even skipped putting up Christmas lights at all.
The Reason For The Season
A nativity scene will be the focus of this person’s yard. Possibly a wooden stable with lifelike figures or a beautifully lit manger scene.
The Griswold House
Lights covered every inch of this persons home and yard. The roof, the grass and the trees are all lit with lights!
The Disco Fever House
Projection lights or lights timed with music would fit this award perfectly.
Blank
Create your own award for a home. This one is just for you and your family.
As you drive around town take note of which homes may be a candidate for each award (write the street name and house number).
After viewing your towns beautiful lights take a hot chocolate break to tally up the votes and then travel back to each winners home to present the awards.
Giving The Award
When you go back to each home try to get a picture of the house and have someone hold the certificate up in the picture.
This will be a fun memory to look back at and as the years go by you can compare the award winners!
You can give a little gift with the award like a candy cane, chocolate bar or Christmas ornament. Or just give the award itself.
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Making Memories
Driving around town to look at Christmas lights is such a simple and inexpensive holiday tradition.
Make your christmas light family night extra fun by giving out these awards. Grab Your Christmas Light Awards Printables Here!
I hope you have just as much fun as my family handing out these awards. It’s sure to bring smiles and laughter to your night.
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