We are open as normal today so come on down and choose your tree, visit Santa and have your face painted.

Bring your boots, with all this rain it is a little wet under foot!

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The weekend experience now on Thursday nights.

4PM – 7PM (Gates Close 8PM)

Ride the tractor (weather dependant), choose a tree, visit the decorations shop, grab a coffee and enjoy the CFA BBQ and a cold drink. Best of all visit Santa and pop your letter to Santa in our mail box!

If you cant make it to the farm have your Christmas Tree delivered by ordering online at https://www.thechristmastreefarm.com.au/product/order-now-with-alf-the-elf/

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The winner will be drawn on 12 December.

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Christmas Tree Delivery Melbourne

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Have your Christmas Tree delivered to your home – deliveries to Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. Christmas Tree Delivery Melbourne

Home Delivery

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The winner will be drawn on 18 December.

Get colouring! Click here to download the picture

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Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year

We made a video for you:

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We really appreciate your custom and it’s great to see so many returning customers. We look forward to seeing you again next year. For those who can’t get to the farm, thank you for visiting our website. We hope your kids have enjoyed our online Advent Calendar this year.

We are closed to the public now but, if you bought your tree from us, you can still return it. Just throw it over the fence. We’ll use it for mulch.

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Here in Australia, Christmas arrives in the first month of summer.  There’s no falling snow, log fires or running outside to make a snowman or two.  We can usually plan on a warm summer’s day filled with good company, a roast turkey or cold buffet of ham, chicken and salad with all the trimmings.

Before the great day, with our weather lending itself to outside concerts,  we gather to  sing, sometimes off-key, a variety of Christmas Carols. This is when Christmas begins for me.

In my family, on Christmas Day, we telephone each other in the morning and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, (a tradition started by our wonderful parents).  I like to call some close friends too and wish them a happy day.

Christmas Day has changed a lot in our family since our parents passed away and our eldest brother, who now lives in Hong Kong, celebrates with his family overseas.  We used to be a much larger group, with much more noise and a host of young children.  Now all the children have grown up and my brothers and I are the eldest in the family.

By mid morning, we load up the car with gifts and food and drive to my brother’s house. In the last few years, before anything else, we ‘Skype’ my eldest brother and his family  in Hong Kong, wish them a Merry Christmas and bemoan the fact that they are so far away.

The chaos of opening presents under the Christmas Tree is next with some of us sitting on the floor, dogs walking over everything trying to work out what the heck we are doing, wrapping paper flying all round and one of us making a Christmas toast.  (Gotta love that tradition).

My sister-in-law and brother provide a wonderful lunch.  The Christmas table strains under the wealth of food, Christmas crackers, decorations and special china.  We all over-indulge.  (Let’s face it, Christmas comes but once a year, and we mean to celebrate it!).

In years gone by, after lunch, some would enjoy a game of cricket, some decide to walk off the Christmas lunch, while others were inclined to partake in the ‘nanna nap’ afternoon snooze.  The latter is my favourite choice.

In the evening, we visit the rest of the family for a less formal Christmas meal.  Before the food, more presents for everyone and more happy faces and Christmas cheer.

By this time, dinner is over, we are all taking an oath that we will never eat again!

Boxing Day is quiet with some of my family traveling to the ocean for a well deserved break.

For me, with the only sound coming from children outside riding their new bikes, Boxing Day is a day of rest.  A day when I can have a ‘quiet one’ .  All too soon however, I realize it’s all going to happen again in 12 months time!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Santa will be on his way soon.

Google Santa

You can track his journey using the Google Santa Tracker

Play lots of Games and learn about Christmas around the world at the Google Santa Village.

Merry Christmas

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Now you have a whole set to decorate your Christmas table.

Food Flags

Click on the image above to go the the sheet of Food Flags to print out.

What food do you have for Christmas Dinner? Is it a traditional Turkey Roast?

In Australia, because it’s hot at this time of year, families often have different kinds of food.  They sometimes have BBQ’s, cold meats and salads or seafood for the main meal.  For desert Pavlova, fruit salads, ice-cream and even frozen Christmas Pudding are eaten.It’s common for us to eat outside.

Pavlova has a crispy meringue base filled with cream and fruit.

Another recipe from Australia is “White Christmas”,  made from raisins, cherries, desiccated coconut, icing sugar, rice bubbles and coconut oil.

Video – Deck The Sheds with Bits of Wattle

Today’s video is a funny Australian version of Deck the Halls. It talks of BBQ’s and eating outside.

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Here are the links to the other printables in this set:

Napkin Rings
Place Cards

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