My brother did something cute last night to get his kids to bed....he got a box of baking soda and recruited my dad to stand on the rug whilst I and my sister-in-law baked cookies with the kids in the kitchen....he poured the baking soda around the outline of my dad's feet.... to make snowy footprints on the rug...and my dad submitted to this for three sets of prints.

Then my fiance, who has a very deep voice HO HO HO'd And the kids came tearing into the living room to see... Santa's footprints!