From crafts and carols to sledding and sleigh rides (and everything in between!), there are so many Holiday activities families can enjoy together.
Try some of these Christmas activities for families this season and spread the Holiday cheer!
- Shop for gifts at a local artisan market
- Walk through a Christmas tree farm
- Make your own advent calendar
- Play outside in the snow
- Decorate a gingerbread house
- Mail a letter to Santa
- Volunteer as a family
- Make homemade Christmas cards
- Sip hot cocoa
- Listen to your favourite Christmas music
- Play Holiday games
- Host a fondue party
- Play Christmas song bingo
- Make a wreath
- Donate food and toys to your local charity
- Go ice skating
- Take a moment to be mindful
- Go on a winter sleigh ride
- Paint pinecones
- Make a cozy blanket fort
- Build a snowman
- Creatively display Christmas cards from friends and family
- Go on a winter scavenger hunt
- Make handmade Christmas ornaments
- Try baking a new Holiday dessert
- Create a Holiday table-top display
- Hang the stockings with care
- Make yummy Holiday drinks
- Play Secret Santa
- Have a family Holiday crafts day
- Bake Holiday cookies for your loved ones
- Go for a hike in the snow
- Cross-stitch or embroidery Christmas crafts
- String popcorn to make a festive garland
- Create a Holiday playlist
- Do a puzzle
- See a Christmas choir, play, or orchestra
- Make homemade birdseed ornaments to hang on trees outside
- Watch Holiday movies
- Host an ugly Christmas sweater party
- Paint, colour-in, or draw Holiday pictures
- Make Christmas slime
- Hang mistletoe
- Play pin the heart on the Grinch
- Go sledding
- Make stove-top potpourri
- Have a neighbourhood Christmas cookie swap
- Roast marshmallows for homemade s’mores
- Name that feeling! Gingerbread man edition
- Go caroling
- Walk or drive around the neighbourhood to look at the Christmas lights
- Wear matching pajamas
- Read a Christmas story before bed
- Open a small gift on Christmas Eve
- Leave a tray of milk and cookies for Santa (and some carrots for the reindeer too!)
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