I have some wonderful memories of wonderful Christmas times with my family growing up. But as a parent how do you create those? It's easy for family time to get lost in all the hustle and bustle of Christmas parties, Christmas shopping, and just day-to-day busyness. Are you making sure that you take some time to really enjoy this wonderful season with your family? Well, in case you need some help, today I'm sharing more than 100 frugal family activities for Christmas!
- Decorate the Christmas Tree
- Build something out of snow - e.g. a snow man, or a snow animal
- Go Sledding
- Make homemade gifts for each other
- Donate some food to a local food bank
- Bake Christmas Treats
- Set up the nativity and play with the characters. We usually use a plastic nativity set that we have, but if you don't have one you can make one out of card stock.
- Watch an old Christmas Movie
- Go on a night hike
- Make a homemade wreath
- Go visit Santa and take a picture
- Sing "Feliz Navidad" and have a Latin Christmas party!
- Make Christmas cards to give away
- Create a Christmas Board Game
- Go on a walk or drive to see the Christmas lights in the neighborhood
- Shovel a neighbor's walk
- Read a Christmas Story
- Doorbell ditch something on a neighbor's door
- Read the nativity story
- Write a Christmas poem
- Have a Bethlehem dinner
- Spend an evening playing board games
- Invent a new holiday tradition
- Build a snow fort
- Make and decorate a gingerbread house
- Make homemade Christmas ornaments
- Make a popcorn garland to hang on the tree
- Go caroling at a senior citizen or retirement home
- Make a paper chain to count down until Christmas
- Put together a puzzle
- Have a sleepover under the Christmas tree
- Go sledding
- Play this cute Gingerbread dice game
- Have a pillow fight
- Make Christmas cookies
- Use this secret service star idea to give service in your families
- Write letters to Santa and mail them
- Go window shopping and enjoy the holiday displays (just make sure you stay outside, or it won't be very frugal!)
- Make reindeer food to sprinkle on your lawn on Christmas eve
- Dress up in costumes and act out the nativity story (this was always our Christmas Eve tradition)
- Go to the library and check out some Christmas books to read
- Make some jingle bell shakers and sing jingle bells
- Pick a family to play the twelve days of Christmas to - make a gift and deliver it secretly on their door each day for 12 days before Christmas
- Have a hot chocolate party
- Make a Paper Christmas Train
- Instead of "Simon Says" play "Santa Says"
- Take your own family Christmas pictures
- Have a pajama party!
- Make snowflakes
- Make some snowballs and have an indoor snowball fight!
- Dress up as Christmas trees
- Play "I spy" with the Christmas tree ornaments on the tree- this game entertained us for hours when I was a kid!
- Sing Christmas Carols
- Make Christmas Fudge
- Hang Christmas lights in the kids room and leave them on for them while they are falling to sleep - I remember how magical this was to me as a child.
- Hide something in the house (we usually choose the baby Jesus from our nativity scene) and play hot and cold to find it.
- Make red & green play dough
- Snap goofy camera shots behind a headless snowman.
- Count down to Christmas with this good deed jar
- Have a picnic in front of the Christmas tree
- Dance to some Christmas music
- Make a cardboard box house (out of a refrigerator box) and decorate it for Christmas
- Make Giant ice marbles to decorate outside
- Choose a Christmas tradition from another country to incorporate into your Christmas celebration this year
- Go exercise together. We need it! Especially with all the extra treats around...
- Leave a Christmas gift for your mail carrier
- Make blessing bags to give to those in need
- Do something nice for the person behind you in line at the store.
- Frost sugar cookies
- Here's a cute idea to wrap up gifts under the tree for 12 activities to do during the Christmas season.
- Have an evening at home and sit around the fire (or a pretend one) and share your favorite Christmas memories
- Have a special Christmas plate that each child gets to take turns eating on for dinner.
- Make an advent Calendar and count down until Christmas.
- Make Rudolf Candy Canes or Christmas mice to hang on the tree
- Help the kids make gifts for their friends or grandparents.
- Make Salt Dough Ornaments
- At the beginning of December, each member of the family writes a gift to give Jesus during that Christmas season. The papers are put inside a box wrapped with gold paper and placed under the tree. The box is opened on Christmas and the gifts are read aloud.
- Make luminaries to line your sidewalk. This was a tradition that some of my family members have who live where it's still good weather during the holidays.
- Make hand print gifts from the kids. There are so many cute ones out there and the kids love to participate. Even the smallest kids can.
- Make marshmallow snowmen
- Print out Christmas coloring pages to color
- Make Baby Jesus Bread
- I love these activity ideas to make the Christmas season centered around Christ.
- Make a paper snowball launcher and have a snowball fight!
- Make tracks in the snow for someone to follow
- Make gifts for the neighbors
- Learn to sing Silent Night in German
- Make a wreath out of evergreen boughs
- Decorate Gingerbread cookies
- Draw names for secret Santa names. Put all your families names in a hat and each person draws. Each day during the Christmas season do something nice for your person in secret.
- Have an old fashioned evening using only candles for lights.
- Clean out the house and donate toys & stuff to charity.
- Make some homemade wrapping paper
- Have a picnic next to the Christmas tree
- Make snowflakes out of tortillas, spread with butter and a little cinnamon sugar and broil until crispy
- Make edible gifts for the birds
- Play name tune with Christmas music
- Have a Christmas Scavenger hunt
- Make some edible ornaments for the Christmas tree
- Have a hat contest to see who can make the best Christmas hat out of construction paper.
And if you still need even more ideas, here they are:
What about you? What does your family enjoy doing at Christmas time? Do you have any fun traditions that you want to start or have done in the past? Thanks for sharing and hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
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| MERRY CHRISTMAS! |
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