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How to Make an Interesting Christmas Newsletter Easily and Quickly

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Super Easy Way to a Make a Cool Christmas Newsletter

Although some people make fun of Christmas newsletters, they are a good way to send an update on your past year to all your family and friends.  I mean, really now, who has time to hand-write personal letters to everyone on your list.  Most of us have enough trouble finding the time to sign all the Christmas cards and address the envelopes.

 

Having an interesting and fun Christmas newsletter is not hard, if you do a little planning ahead of time. Do not wait until December 15th and try to make a newsletter while you are juggling dozens of other last minute holiday details.

Jot down an outline.

Make a major section for each:
Family member
Pet

Make a major section for any big life changes:
Moved?
New Job?
New Baby?

Include photos, this is optional.

Did you take a vacation? If so where, when? Did you see anything cool?
Did the kids get good grades? Did they play sports or join the band or were they in the school play?
For little kids how much have they grown? Is Suzie three inches taller? Does Johnny were a size 4 shirt now?
Have you gotten a new pet? Any news on the old pets?
Try to make it interesting and fun. Ask the kids to include their favorite jokes. Include a special or memorable cartoon.
Pretend you are sitting over coffee catching up with your friends or family, tell them what's been going on in your life.
Tell them what they missed.
What would they notice, if they were there? A new haircut, hair color? New carpeting in the family room.
Remember your audience, what your mom might find fascinating, your best friend from college may find as exciting as a bowl of dryer lint.

Have Fun & Get Creative with Your Format

Don't Worry About Needing to be a Graphic Designer to Do Great - You Can Do It!

Once you have gotten your basic message whipped out; you can have a little fun with the formatting part. Formatting is just a fancy word for how your page will look.

If you are slightly good with the computer you can add a border or clip art to your page to make it more festive.

If you are crafty you can rubber stamp your pages with seasonal stamps. Let the kiddos help and don't spazz over imperfections. This is just a loving way to reconnect with family and friends during a special time of the year. You can rubber stamp in black or gray and let the kids color in the images with crayons or colored pencils or markers.

You could even let the kids do all the art work themselves.

If you are neither crafty or computer geeky cool, simply cut out a few basic lined Christmas images and tape or glue them on a blank sheet of page and xerox it to make your personal Christmas stationary. Christmas ads in the newspaper usually have loads of simple drawings that will make good images when copied.

Get R Done!

Print out the number of copies you need for your list of lucky recipients. Fold and tuck into their Christmas cards or insert by themselves into envelopes. Address and stamp those envelopes and drop them off at the post office.

Now sit back and wait for the responses. People are truly touched that you remembered them with such a unique and creative gesture.

Bonus Points for the Overachievers

How to Make it SO Easy on Yourself

If you are truly organized and want to make this a no brainer come this fall. Jot small notes on your wall calendar during the year of memorable things; and when Thanksgiving comes. You can jot down that outline in record time, simply by flicking through the calendar. No more brain cramps from trying to remember everything that happened over the year; while you are trying to rest up from your turkey adventures. You might even be done in time to grab the best of the leftovers before Uncle Ernie wakes up from his turkey-enduced coma and descends on the refrigerator for round 2.

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PaulaTalbert

I am a freelance writer and artist. Genealogist, crocheter, quilter, scrapbooker, altered artist, rubber stamper. I blog, am into social media. I rece... more »

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