If you're in last-minute rush to find ideas for your holiday entertaining this year, we've assembled a list of channels that will help you get your home ready for friends and family. The following channels offer ideas for decorating, baking, and Christmas entertainment.
If you haven't already made your holiday cookies, Allrecipes.com offers 28 videos that show you how to create a wide variety of them. You'll find traditional favorites like Nestle Toll House Cookies and Scottish Shortbread, along with more seasonal treats that include Candy Cane Cookies and Christmas Wreath Cookies. There is also a video full of tips for decorating sugar cookies.
holidaykitchentv will help you prepare a traditional Christmas-day meal, with recipes for Whole Roasted Turkey, Poppy Seed Dinner Rolls, Cornbread Stuffing, and Potatoes Au Gratin. If you need snacks and drinks for a holiday party, this channel also instructs you in how to make Meatballs Swedish Style, Egg Nog, Classic Swiss Fondue, and Chicken, Lamb, and Beef Sliders.
Want to serve your guests something stronger than egg nog? Drinks will show you how to make Spiked Hot Chocolate, Mulled Wine, Hot Buttered Rum, and a host of Christmas-themed cocktails. And, for those wanting to stick with the egg nog, you'll find a recipe for classic egg nog in addition to several recipes for egg nog-based drinks.
It's never too late to do some additional holiday decorating, and CraftSmart offers over three dozen ideas. Make a Pine Cone Christmas Tree with your kids or hang a Scarf Wreath on your front door. You'll find plenty of ideas for your tree and tabletop, and even a few gift ideas.
If you and the kids have tired of watching Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, and all the other annual Christmas shows, Toontime Christmas provides a huge library of animated specials, Christmas-themed movies and holiday episodes from television series. Most of these are older shows that haven't been seen on TV in a generation.
When you aren't watching holiday TV shows, you can display seasonal images on your Roku-connected TV with the Christmas Winter channel. This channel will display a slideshow of over 130 beautiful Christmas and Winter photos, with Christmas music playing in the background. Another option is Christmas, a screensaver that shows graphics that offer viewers greetings of the season
There is no shortage of channels offering Christmas music, and we've covered some of these in our What's on Roku series. Our recommendations include SomaFM and iHeartRadio.
We hope these suggestions help you have a great holiday season. Merry Christmas from RokuGuide.com!
