20 ways to get in the holiday spirit

Bella Barbiere, Yearbook Designer|December 17, 2015

Many Homestead students are pumped for the holiday activities to begin. This is a glimpse into unique ideas Homestead students can do to get into the theme of the holidays. “It’s about spending time with family and cherishing all of the happy times you have together,” Sadie Leszczynski, sophomore, said.

Homestead students, whatever holiday they celebrate, want to be engaged with getting into the spirit of the season. Here is a list of fun, unique ways students can get into the holiday spirit, inspired by beloved and well-known Christmas movies.

What the holidays mean to Homestead students:

“ When you’re forty, Christmas trees allow your house to go five degrees warmer.” – Madeline Slicker, senior.

“Watching the classic movie White Christmas, every Christmas Eve.”- Hallie Kent, sophomore.

“ We get Chinese food and go home to open presents.”- Galina Haugh, junior.

“ Eat Christmas cookies and eat puppy chow.”- Jordan Kranich, senior.

“I love to eat candy canes.”-Shannon Burke, senior.

“ We go to my grandma’s and open up presents and we eat potato pancakes.”- Rayna Cohen, senior.  

  1. Sing your favorite holiday song in the middle of the mall.

  1. Dress like your favorite mall Santa.

 

  1. Decorate Holiday cookies and make sure to stuff your face in the frosting.  

  1. Have a hot chocolate competition with your friends.

  1. Have your mom pull out the family albums from past Christmases and embarrass you in front of all your family and friends.

  1. Host an ugly sweater party.

 

7. Pretend you are a snowman statue and scare someone.

  1. Eat spaghetti for breakfast covered in syrup and candy corns.

 

  1. Try to fill your house to the max with lights.

  1. Get a B.B gun and try not to shoot your eye out.

11. Ask someone their favorite color.

  1. Shout “Santa!” in the middle of a public place.

  1. Press all the lights on the elevator to make it look like a christmas tree.

 

  1. Have a snowball fight.

 

 

  1.  Head dive off your couch onto your christmas tree to hang your topper.

 

  1. Scare the pizza delivery man.

  1.  Call someone a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

  1. Get on the wrong flight to New York and get lost.

  1. Stick your tongue on a icy pole.

  1. Overcook your turkey.