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I love Christmas and every year I look forward to celebrating the holidays with family and friends. It’s such a magical time of year. I can’t get enough of all the holiday cheer and positive energy in the atmosphere. I often joke that I wish I could bottle up Christmas and carry it around with me all year.
Since that’s not possible, I do my best to enjoy all the days leading up to Christmas.
Today I’m going to share with you a few fun Christmas activities that my family and I would like to do as part of our pre-Christmas celebrations this year.
How are we are going to do this many activities in less than a month? We’re not! As much as I would like to do everything on this list, there simply isn’t enough time to do it all! Instead, we narrowed our Christmas activities list down by having each family member choose a few Christmas activities they would like to do.
After they chose their Christmas activities, I wrote the activity on a card and placed the cards in a jar. Each day we pick a card and do whatever activity is on the card. Easy peasy!
I’ve included a free printable of Christmas activities on this list for you to download. Check out the sample below. Hope you enjoy and happy holidays!
Family Together Time
• Cut or choose a Christmas tree
• Have an ugly sweater competition
• Make a holiday greeting video and send it to friends and family
• Go on a Christmas themed scavenger hunt
• Have a Christmas movie marathon
• Make a Christmas song playlist and have a family dance party
• Take family photos with Santa
• Have a silly, Christmas- themed family photo shoot
• Take a ride to look at Christmas lights in the neighborhood
• Attend your community’s tree lighting event
• Go to a Christmas show
• Go on a sleigh ride
• Read stories together by the Christmas tree
• Plan a red and green day (i.e. wear red and green all day or eat only red and green foods)
• Game night with hot cocoa and candy canes
Christmas Cheer in the Kitchen
• Have a hot cocoa bar
• Have a cookie decorating party
• Make Christmas cookies
• Make reindeer treats
• Decorate a Gingerbread house
Christmas Acts of Kindness
• Adopt a family for the holidays
• Donate new toy to charity
• Visit a nursing home and sing Christmas carols
• Volunteer at a soup kitchen
• Donate towels and blankets to an animal shelter
• Donate canned goods to a food pantry
• Leave a ‘thank you’ note for your mail carrier
• Send care packages or holiday cards to troops overseas
Christmas Crafts for Kids
• Make Christmas tree ornaments
• Decorate a wreath
• Make your own ugly sweater
• Design Christmas cards
• Make mason jar snow globes
• Design and decorate gift tags
• Make paper snowflakes
• Write a letter to Santa
Christmas Decorating Fun
• Decorate the Christmas tree
• Hang Christmas lights outdoors
• Deck the halls with Christmas decoration
• String popcorn garland and put on Christmas tree
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TP Keane says
Christmas time is such a family holiday, but often the ceremony of it all makes us forget. Great ideas and fun stuff.
Ana De Jesus says
I think a family themed Christmas shoot is such a cute idea and decorating a gingerbread house is pretty cool. What is your favorite thing on the list?
Logan Can says
I saw on Facebook where a friend of mine had her family do a silly family photo shoot and it was hilarious! It definitely made me want to try that! I love your ideas!
JanetGoingCrazy says
I love this list and printable! My family has a small list of things we like to do for Christmas time and I think we almost have it all done!
Debra says
I love all of these! We just watched Rudolph tonight and tomorrow we are going to see the Christmas lights!
Bri says
My large extended family rented a limo bus to go around and look at holiday lights! I can’t wait!
Stacey says
I love this list! I just printed it out to hang on my fridge and pinned it so I can use it again next year. We already have done quite a few of them – but I am excited to do more. THanks!
Ourfamilyworld says
I love all your ideas. The kids have a long Christmas break, we could do a lot of these activities.
Roxanne says
Making a video to send to family!! There’s one that’s not on our list and should be!
Misty Blue says
This is fantastic! I love these ideas. Thank you so much!
laura londergan says
I am loving this list as sometimes it’s hard to remember everything I want to do with my family and your list is a great reminder for lots of fun things to plan on doing 😉 thanks!
karissa says
These are some great ideas. Thanks for making a printable of them.
Yona Williams says
I’ve always wanted to participate in wearing matching pajamas or an ugly sweater competition, but no one wants to do it with me. I think the idea of having a scavenger hunt is really fun.
alexandria says
Oh, I love Christmas. I get so emotional when it’s over. 🙁 We’ve done a lot of great things already. I actually am planning a Polar Express night for my daughter to drive around with popcorn and look at lights. I want to print out a ticket and everything.
Yanique Chambers says
Awww that will be such a special experience. hope you guys enjoy!
Kristin says
A Christmas movie marathon is literally one of my very favorite holiday activities. In fact, I think that’s on the agenda this weekend!
Erin says
Oh these are all so fun! I wonder how many I can cram in before the big day, LOL!
Becca says
Ugly sweater parties are so fun! I definitely want to look at some Christmas lights this weekend.