Wanting to focus on time with the family this holiday season but not sure what to do? Here is a list of 50 fun, family activities for the holidays. Obviously you don't want to do all of them in one year or you would just be trading one kind of chaos for another. Go through the list as a family and pick out a couple that you would like to do together. Save the rest for next year.
50 Fun Family Holiday Activities:
- Go for a walk
- Find a local Christmas tree farm that will let you chop down a tree together
- Have a snowball fight
- Play a board game
- Turn off all of the electronics and enjoy your time together
- Drive or walk around and look at Christmas lights
- Build a snowman
- Make a starry night flashlight
- Take a hike and look for natural items that can be used to decorate with
- Go bowling
- Build an igloo
- Decorate cookies
- Read the Christmas story from a Bible
- Visit a live nativity
- Read a Christmas story as a family
- Put together a puzzle
- Snuggle up under some blankets and have a movie night
- Find toys that are no longer being played with and donate them to a local family shelter
- Go ice skating
- Start a book drive and donate them to your local library or elementary school
- Make hot cocoa
- Play jingle junk in the trunk
- Attend a holiday parade
- Sing Christmas carols
- See a local production of The Nutcracker or A Christmas Carol
- Candy cane fishing
- Make a list of 12 charities that you want to serve with once a month next year
- Cook dinner together
- Deliver cookies to a neighbor or house-bound friend
- Build gingerbread houses
- Make paper snowflakes to hang in the windows
- Create a holiday playlist together
- Play card games
- Start a canned food drive and donate them to your local food bank
- Find a reindeer farm and visit Santa's reindeer
- Candy cane relay
- Go sledding
- Decorate a tree with bird food - unsalted peanuts strung with heavy thread, apple pieces, bread crumbs dipped in peanut butter, rice cakes, popcorn.
- Learn something new about Christmas in a different culture
- Play roll-a-snowman
- Have the kids help fill out the Christmas cards
- Make presents for the grandparents
- Build a Mentos geyser
- Deliver cookies to your local fire station and police department
- Camp out under the Christmas tree
- Make a card for a soldier and send it to your local Red Cross
- Have a dance party
- Gather some friends and go caroling
- Start an "I Am Thankful" list and add a new item each day
- Offer to babysit for a family with younger kids - for free - so that the parents can go Christmas shopping or have a date night
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