High Tech Christmas Decorations
With another holiday season upon us it’s time to decorate and when it comes to trimming our trees and homes for the season, the world’s largest Christmas store is the place to visit to to see how technology is making the holiday season brighter and… noisier.
When you talk about the holidays, there’s only one place to come, 25 Christmas Lane, Frankenmuth Michigan. There you’ll find Bronner’s, the world’s largest Christmas store… visited by millions of people over the past 60 years, a place that glistens and shines with Christmas decorations, nativity scenes, Santas, collectibles and tens of thousands of trims and holiday gift items… where things are the same and yet, every year, a little better.
Says Sandra Schafsnitz, the assistant salesroom manager: “We’ve seen bigger changes in lights and trees. The trees are becoming more realistic. They’re just unbelievable, all the features, the colors. We have a black tree. We have a white tree. Of course a silver tree. We have a wedding tree with a car in the middle of it. We have a guitar-shaped ree with Elvis ornaments on it. LED lights are beine implemented with the trees. You really can’t compare the imact of an LED light with a minilight. The colors are so much more vibrant.”
My favorite? Something called Lights and Sounds. You wire up your Christmas trees with Christmas music. They blink in sync with the songs and you can change the songs, too. Cost is $129.
Meanwhile, there are lots of other cool Christmas things you can do this year.
Here’s some info on Christmas crafts your kids can make.
Here’s a whole collection of do-it-yourself Christmas ideas and projects.
How about putting on a Nativity play? This is great for churches, schools and small groups that want to get the kids busy with a delightful Christmas musical play with all your favorite Christmas Carols.
Here’s my video report on my visit to Bronners:
