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Some fun moms, like CafeMom suroundedbyboys, are hoping to do daily Christmas Countdown activities with their kids this holiday season.
The Christmas Countdown takes the advent calendar to a whole new level of fun. Instead of (or in addition to the advent calendar), you and your kids participate in one fun, holiday-themed activity each day from December 1st to December 25th. That's a whole lot of fun for the holidays!
Obviously, this countdown can be simplified to 5 or 10 activities, but here are 25 ideas for families who want to celebrate their holiday-loving hearts out.
In her post Daily Christmas Countdown activities in handmade holidays, CafeMom suroundedbyboys came up with the first six holiday-themed activities and several CafeMoms added more fun activities to her list.
25 Holiday Activities Until Christmas:
- Have holiday movie night with popcorn.
- Walk or drive around to look at Christmas lights.
- Buy new Christmas pajamas.
- Make edible ornaments for birds.
- Open a present on Christmas Eve.
- Read about holiday traditions around the world.
- busybees124: Bake Christmas cookies.
- tashamae921: Make scented ornaments.
- ladybug700: Go caroling.
- ladybug700: Participate in a charity drive (food/toy drive).
- ladybug700: Write letters to Santa.
- iamhome: Make popcorn balls or Rice Krispies treats with little pieces of candy cane in them.
- iamhome: Sit outside and drink hot cocoa.
- dasluv: Take the kids shopping and let them pick out gifts for everyone in the family.
- Kivara: Have your kids donate gently used toys they no longer play with.
- mmomof2: Make graham cracker gingerbread houses.
- mmomof2: Decorate the Christmas tree.
- mmomof2: Visit Santa Claus at the mall.
- mmomof2: Sing and dance to holiday music.
- mmomof2: Read a bunch of holiday books.
- mmomof2: Attend a tree lighting ceremony in your area.
- haljtmom: Make homemade gifts for the family.
- loveeeyore and Bizmom: Make paper chains to count the days — just take green and red construction paper and cut into strips pull ends together and glue. Build your chain to Christmas (add a link each day) or start with 25 links and tear one off each day!
- sweetboys4me: Make Christmas trees out of construction paper. Use glue, construction paper, glitter, paint, dried beans, or buttons (whatever you have on hand) to make ornaments and decorations for the tree.
- tweets9401: Get a plain stocking and decorate it with a symbol of something that happened this year.
What are your family's favorite must-do holiday activities?
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Comments (4)
cute ideas
These are so cute! I wont be doing all of them, but I def. have some great ideas planned based off of this list, thanks!
We like to sit and make the construction christmas rings, we grab a few packs of construction paper, cut the rings out of the red,green and sometimes yellow, attach them all enough to where they will go around the whole living room ceiling, and we tape them on. we have done this now for the last 4 years and it has become something of a tradition and we love the time we spend together talking about my christmas's when I was litle and what they got when they were babies, it's fun and time goes by fast. such great memories to pass down to their kids. we also put in a movie to listen to as well with popcorn and maybe some music after. such fun.
Bizmom
Iamhome's idea is neat BUT i would hate biting into a candy cane chunk in a rice krispie treat. I'd probably use the candy cane holiday 'chocolate' chips. :)
As for what we do. Save Christmas cards from previous years, then you take the (used<---since they can't be reused) insert to 'canning lids' and trace around them on a part of the card. (something that makes sense ... santa's face, or the nativity, or whatever) and then you glue ribbon on the lid, then glue the picture over the ribbon. You can add glitter, or other things to decorate it, and you have your own (almost cost free) ornaments for your tree :)