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

1. Bake treats for friends and family
2. Decorate a gingerbread house
3. Make an ornament for the tree
4. Visit a Christmas tree farm
5. Write a letter to Father Christmas
6. Wear a terrible Christmas jumper
7. Watch your favourite Christmas movie 
8. Make hot chocolate
9. Go ice skating
10. Decorate the Christmas tree
11. Visit Father Christmas
12. Go and watch a pantomime
13. Do a random act of kindness
14. Read Christmas stories together
15. Wear matching Christmas pyjamas
16. Make and send Christmas cards
17. Go and watch a nativity play
18. Make a donation to your local food bank
19. Build a snowman
20. Go to a Christingle service at church
21. Make magic reindeer food
22. Bake cookies for all of your neighbours
23. Sing Christmas carols together
24. Hang up your Christmas stockings
25. Kiss under the mistletoe
26. Go sledging
27. Go for a walk at night to see everyone’s Christmas lights
28. Make mulled wine or mulled cider, or even mulled Vimto
29. Toast marshmallows on the fire
30. Have a snowball fight
31. Cut out paper snowflakes
32. Make your own snow globe
33. Go to a carol concert
34. Make paper chains
35. Read the nativity story
36. Visit your local Christmas market
37. Make a festive wreath for your front door
38. Tell someone that you love them
39. Donate toys to your local children’s appeal
40. Leave out some treats for Father Christmas and his reindeer
41. Make a Christmas pomander
42. Take a family portrait
43. Read The Night Before Christmas
44. Make a list of all the people and things you are thankful for
45. Make snow angels
46. Go on a Christmas steam train ride
47. Play a family board game
48. Make salt dough decorations
49. Make a popcorn garland to feed the birds
50. 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?