Last Updated on November 27, 2020 by HodgePodgeDays
Christmas is a season which is full of tradition. There are things you did as a child which you carry on doing every Christmas with your own family. We have tonnes of Christmas traditions and each year we somehow find new things to add to our festive to do list. If you’re looking for some new things to do this season, here are 50 festive things for your Christmas Bucket List.
50 festive things for your Christmas Bucket List
- Bake treats for friends and family
- Decorate a gingerbread house
- Make an ornament for the tree
- Visit a Christmas tree farm
- Write a letter to Father Christmas
- Wear a terrible Christmas jumper
- Watch your favourite Christmas movie
- Make hot chocolate
- Go ice skating
- Decorate the Christmas tree
- Visit Father Christmas
- Go and watch a pantomime
- Do a random act of kindness
- Read Christmas stories together
- Wear matching Christmas pyjamas
- Make and send Christmas cards
- Go and watch a nativity play
- Make a donation to your local food bank
- Build a snowman
- Go to a Christingle service at church
- Make magic reindeer food
- Bake cookies for all of your neighbours
- Sing Christmas carols together
- Hang up your Christmas stockings
- Kiss under the mistletoe
- Go sledging
- Go for a walk at night to see everyone’s Christmas lights
- Make mulled wine or mulled cider, or even mulled Vimto
- Toast marshmallows on the fire
- Have a snowball fight
- Cut out paper snowflakes
- Make your own snow globe
- Go to a carol concert
- Make paper chains
- Read the nativity story
- Visit your local Christmas market
- Make a festive wreath for your front door
- Tell someone that you love them
- Donate toys to your local children’s appeal
- Leave out some treats for Father Christmas and his reindeer
- Make a Christmas pomander
- Take a family portrait
- Read The Night Before Christmas
- Make a list of all the people and things you are thankful for
- Make snow angels
- Go on a Christmas steam train ride
- Play a family board game
- Make salt dough decorations
- Make a popcorn garland to feed the birds
- Give a secret gift to someone special
Those are some of the things which are on our Christmas Bucket List. There’s nothing to say we have to do them all in one year, but it would be nice to try and do them all over the years. I like to remind my son that Christmas isn’t just about getting a pile of presents, it’s about giving and sharing and being kind to one another. How will you be sharing the love this Christmas?
