Family Holiday Tradition: Host a Holiday Movie Marathon

Babe, it's cold outside. Light a fire, flip on the TV and plan a cozy nighttime in with your loved ones. Make the evening extra-special with easy decorating tips, a merry popcorn mix and this list of everyone's most-loved vacation flicks presented by our friends at Folgers®.

Set the Scene

  • Get the excitement started early on by slipping an invite listing movie title, show time and requested attire (coziest pajamas only, please!) under each family unit member's bedroom door a few days before.
  • Information technology'southward moving-picture show nighttime! Cozy up the viewing surface area with plenty of pillows and fleece blankets to share. Or invite the kids to build a fort in the middle of the living room.
  • Prop up a chalkboard on a nearby serving tabular array that notes the evening's showing.
  • Decorate the space with cute props—aye, many stores sell replicas of that awesome leg lamp from A Christmas Story—that chronicle to your featured flick.

Serve Upwardly a Snack Bar

  • Drizzle a fresh-popped batch of popcorn with melted white chocolate. Once chocolate sets, brand a merry mix by adding whatsoever of the following: red and green chocolate candies, chocolate-covered mini pretzels, gumdrops, dried cranberries, white chocolate fries or sugared nuts.
  • Wow them with a hot chocolate and coffee bar complete with flavored creamers, mini marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and candy cane or rock processed swizzle sticks.
  • Watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas? Brand a Grinchy punch, a fizzy combination of white soda and lime sherbet. Serve with light-green carbohydrate-rimmed glasses and ice cubes in fun holiday shapes (check online for seasonal silicone trays).

12 Days of Fa-La-La Flicks

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas
  • A Christmas Carol
  • A Christmas Story
  • Elf
  • Dwelling Lone
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • The Polar Limited
  • Rudolph the Blood-red-Nosed Reindeer
  • The Santa Clause
  • White Christmas

Originally Published: November 17, 2015