Christmas is almost here again, and to make each moment of this season count, you need to plan it with lots and lots of super fun Christmas activities for kids for you and the kids for a fun-filled holiday.
We have outlined many ideas that range from outdoor fun, making special treats, lots and lots of DIY projects,
competitions, games, and many more. So just hold on a bit and see below some fun things you can do on Christmas day.
Things To Do On Christmas Day At Home
If you are short of ideas on what to do at home on Christmas day, check out some of these:
1. Wake up singing Christmas carols.
2. Say a prayer of thankfulness.
3. Take a family photoshoot.
4. Make Christmas meals.
5. Dress up and go out and see the world.
6. Make a video call with grandpa and Grandma.
7. Attend a Christmas service at church.
8. Visit your friends and family close by.
9. Enjoy a sumptuous meal Christmas dinner together.
10. Watch Cool Christmas movies together.
And if it is your baby’s first Christmas, here are some Christmas
activities to start with, baby:
1. Sing Christmas songs together.
2. Get a sensory bulb, and you both should stash
Christmas ornaments in it.
3. Make a wall Christmas tree with bows.
4. Put small Christmas lights on a jar for the baby to play with.
5. Customize the sensory bin with a Christmas theme.
6. Make a photo Christmas tree.
7. Do a hand paint for snowflakes or Stars.
8. Get jingling sensory bottles.
9. Have fun with a Christmas-themed Play-Doh.
10. Get a sensory bottle fill it with plastic leaves and small ornaments that can be used as a baby rattle.
Short of ideas on things to do this Christmas? Below are 50 Christmas activities for kids that you do not want to miss.
1. Make Paper Christmas Trees To Decorate The Home
With some old toilet rolls holder, colorful paper, paint, glitters, scissors and glue; you and the kids can make some mini-Christmas trees that you could use to decorate their rooms or the stairway so that everyone around can feel the Christmas vibes.
To do this project, cut out green drawing sheets in the shape of a Christmas tree. Scrunch papers and glue them to the tree. You may decide to add some glitters to it. Take an old tissue roll holder and glue it to the bottom of the tree. So easy, you have your mini Christmas tree.
2. Make Holiday Cards
You and the kids can make your very own unique holiday card for their teachers, coach, friends, and family members. It is less expensive than the regular holiday cards that you get in stores, and it helps spur creativity in your kids.
It is also a way to have fun and bond as a family. If you are unsure of where to start, check the internet, it has tons of ideas you can use.
3. Light Up Your Space With Some Old Bottles And Christmas Lights.
It is a fun Christmas activity for kids you don’t want to miss. Get old wine bottles about 2 to 4 that are a bit large, pour in glitters in different colors and small Christmas ornaments.
Place small Christmas lights inside and around the bottles. Add some holly leaves, small ornaments, and other decorations at the bottom of the bottle. You can use this as a centerpiece in your home.
4. Window Decorations
Every part of the home should have a festive touch this Christmas, and your window shouldn’t be left out. Come up with ideas to decorate the windows; with mini-Christmas trees, a beautiful wreath, mini Santa’s, stars, or anything you find creative.
How beautiful and enchanting your home will look when you view it outdoor. Do not forget to add glitters for the perfect shine.
5. Make Paper Snowflakes
Who says you have to buy snowflakes decors to decorate your home this Christmas? The holiday season is when you and the kids can try out lots and lots of DIY projects. These can serve as suitable Christmas activities for kids.
One activity you should not miss out on is making paper snowflakes. Download samples of snowflakes patterns use tracing paper to trace out the design on a paper.
Draw out the design on white cardboard and cut it out with scissors. Apply glue on the surface and sprinkle glitter all over. Your paper snowflakes are ready. It can be attached to your Christmas trees or used as Christmas decorations in the home.
6. Snowman Spoons
Every Christmas meal can have that extra Christmas vibes, promoting the Spirit of Christmas, which is all about love, sacrifice, and hope for humanity.
Instead of using regular spoons for a hot chocolate drink for breakfast, spice things up a little by decorating your chocolate drink with snowman spoons. It’s easy.
Wrap spoons in red and white ribbons, dip the top part in melted chocolate or dark chocolate ganache. Attach three small white candies or marshmallows as the snowman and finish the eyes with chocolate chips and hands with sprinkles or any small straight candy.
7. Make A Christmas Village
Think of this as a great Christmas activity for kids. While telling your kids the story about Christmas, you all can work together to create a mini-Christmas Village.
It’s a great activity that can spur creativity. Think of snowman, mini wooden houses, Santa, reindeers, Christmas trees, snowflakes all around filled with people figurines. You guys can even make up a story behind the people.
8. Angel Light
On a cold evening this Christmas holiday, you and the kids can have fun with this simple activity. One of your kids can lie on the floor imitating the shape of an angel, and another kid can use Christmas lights to outline the kid on the floor. Each of the kids should take their turns and, as they do, snap each beautiful photo
9. A DIY Snow Globe
Get a cookie jar or a mansion jar to make a DIY snow globe. Fill up the jar halfway with white marshmallows, white plastic beads, or any other white decoration. Add in other deco’s like miniature trees, reindeers, holly leaves, and cover up the jar. Make a beautiful bow with a ribbon around it.
10. A Card Display Stand
It is a pretty creative and fun way to decorate the home this Christmas, and it is a great Christmas activity for kids. Get a long flat wood and fix it at a part of the house, like the dining room or the stairway.
Get plastic plants like holly leaves or garlands and hang them on the wood with hot glue. When the glue is dried, you can fix your cards with clothes clips.
11. Make A Christmas Wreath
Wreaths are front door decorations for every home at Christmas. This year, you may wish to do your DIY wreath for a personalized touch. Check the internet for ideas on how to make DIY Christmas wreaths.
12. An Eggnog Bar Drink
It is a creamy beverage that you do not want to miss making with your kids this Christmas. You can enjoy drinking this while telling stories, doing DIY projects, or watching a Christmas movie. How sweet eats you have the perfect Eggnog bar recipe.
13. Read A Christmas Story Each Night
Bedtime stories are a perfect way to lull your little one into the dream world every night. Read our blogs post on 50 bedtime stories for ideas on the ideal bedtime stories to read to your kid every night.
This Christmas season, you will want to read the kids’ beautiful Christmas stories to learn about love, sacrifice, and hope.
Many Christmas stories like the Elves and the shoemaker, the greatest gift, the night before Christmas, and many more. Do not also forget to tell them about the main character of the season, which is Jesus.
14. Have A Cozy Slumber Party Under The Christmas Tree
A great Christmas tradition you and the kids can adopt is to have a Christmas-themed slumber party. Dress in your favorite Christmas pajamas and socks.
You can have family time under the tree sharing great moments, saying stories while drinking hot cocoa, telling jokes, or watching movies. When you are done for the night, everyone cuddles under the tree and sleeps till the next day.
15. Plan A Craft Day Or Days
Set a day or days for making DIY crafts this Christmas season. These crafts could be used as gifts for decorating the home, church, school, and other important places.
Plan and prepare with your kids. You guys can prepare what fun projects to do and shop for the decorations, glues, ornaments, glitters, and other supplies you will use.
16. Plan A Christmas Photoshoot
If you have not had a Christmas photoshoot recently, this Christmas is one fun activity you should consider. The years are going by, and your kid will be off the home to start their own life before long.
But pictures create memories that we will always look back to. So, make this year’s family photoshoot top-notch. Involve your kids in the idea.
Let them select clothes and outfits or choose a unique theme for the photoshoot and take beautiful pictures to remember this Christmas season.
17. Host A Christmas Karaoke Show
In the Spirit of Christmas of the Christmas season, you shouldn’t miss this one Christmas activity for kids. Involve the whole family. I love this Christmas activity because it makes me always excited.
You and your family can have a Christmas karaoke under the Christmas tree or in the living room. You all take turns singing Christmas carols like Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Hark the Herald, the white Christmas. You can make this glam.
The girls can wear white dresses and tiny angel wings and the boy’s beautiful white robes or any other costume. Complete this with a lovely Christmas story, photos, meals, or snacks.
18. Decorate Your Advent Calendar
The perfect way to countdown to the 25th of December is through your advent calendar. So, why don’t you and your kids choose to make one before December? Each day should reveal something unique and inspiring that would make everyone anticipate the next day and, most importantly, Christmas.
19. Make An Edible Decor
Make necklaces or bracelets or any fun thing with edible items and enjoy them just for the fun of the season. You can string popcorns with chocolate rolls and pretzels on a thread and let the kids eat it from one end to the other end.
20. Use Handprints To Make Snowflakes Or Stars
Get paints in different colors (red, green, or white) and paint them on your hands for a handprint. Make handprints on a white sheet or white carbon paper, placing your painted hands in the white sheet in a circular form.
Use a white line to connect the prints to make a star or snowflake shape. Isn’t this a fun Christmas activity for kids? Indeed it is.
21. Make And Design Holiday Treats
This holiday, plan to make different treats with your kids that they would enjoy. To make it more fun, garnish them in Christmas themes. You can use them for any special occasion that you have planned for this holiday.
Sprinkles, strawberries, chocolate ganache, marshmallows are some things you can use to garnish your treats. Check online for ideas of Christmas-themed treats this holiday.
22. Use Pine Cones For Decorations
Dried pine cones, glitters, glues, ornaments can be used to create incredible designs this Christmas. Making a wreath with a pinecone isn’t a bad idea.
23. Make Miniature Santa’s
Make mini Santa’s with some cardboard, paint, glues. These can be added as a deco in the Christmas tree, advent calendars, or window decorations.
24. Go For Christmas Sightseeing
Christmas time is a thrilling moment, and everyone knows it. Every house, street, shop, the school has a touch of Christmas. One Christmas activity for kids you do not want to miss this year is going sightseeing.
Get hooked up in your boots, sweaters, socks, hand gloves. Go out and see the world and see how the Spirit of Christmas permeates the air. The happy faces, gigantic Christmas trees, people showing love and affection. It is an exhilarating experience.
25. Go Gift Shopping
Let your kids have fun shopping or making gifts for their teachers, grandparents, friends, uncles, and aunties this season. They may want to get those for you and their siblings alone, and it is cool. After all, the gifts should be a surprise.
26. Wrap, Wrap, Wrap
While they can cover the gifts for the other family members in private, they spend time together wrapping all other gifts for friends, teachers, and other loved ones together.
27. Go Ice Skating
You and your family will not be the only ones ice skating, so it’s going to be fun seeing other people, the kids making new friends, and having a swell time.
Winter comes once a year, so do not miss this opportunity. Plus, this is a perfect time to teach your little one who is new to skating some ice skating lessons.
28. Make DIY Christmas Ornaments
The ornaments to decorate your home; this Christmas does not have to be store-bought. You can try some DIY fun projects with your kids, like making your snowflakes from snowflakes print out.
Download online printouts of snowflakes, trace on a white paper, cut out, and spread glitters all over. You can also make miniature gingerbread men, stars, mini Santa Claus, and lots of other DIY Christmas ornaments.
29. Get Christmas Trees And Other Supplies For Decoration
Go out with your kids to cut a suitable tree or shop for artificial ones. Get supplies like glues, glitters, paper, paintcolors to make DIY decorations. And for those decorations you cannot make, now it’s time to shop for them.
30. Write Letters To Santa Claus
Spend a dull afternoon this season writing letters to Santa. The kids can tell him how they have been good kids and the kind of gifts they would want to get.
31. Have A Game Night
Choose a night where the whole family comes together and has games like cards, board games, Christmas movie trivia, and any games you and your kids love. It l is going to be all fun. Do not forget to make hot chocolate drinks that everyone can sip from while on the game.
32. Mani-Pedis With Your Girls
You and your girls should pamper yourself this Christmas. While you can go for massages with your friends, you and the girls can go for manicures and pedicures. Choose nail polish art that has Christmas themes so you can feel the Christmas vibes.
33. Bake Christmas Desserts
A dessert, especially a Christmas fruit cake, is always on every table and given as a gift at Christmas. Now is the perfect time to bake up tons of deserts.
You can bake fruit cakes, cookies, Swiss rolls as a gift to grandpa and Grandma, for an animal shelter, an orphanage, your kid’s school, and of course for your table on Christmas Day.
34. Volunteer
Now is a perfect time to volunteer and help out in society, and you can do this with your kids. It will teach them the real essence of Christmas, which is love, sacrifice, and hope.
Look around and identify where you could be of help. It could be at your local shelter, church, street, or an orphanage or serving meals at the local kitchen.
35. Attend The Christmas Service
Do not miss out on church this season, for then you will understand more and be reminded again of the depth and true meaning of Christmas.
36. Knit, Knit, Knit
Knit a holiday scarf or sweater, blanket as an excellent gift for someone special together with the kids. If the kids are not good at knitting, they can make simple designs like knitted bands for bracelets for their friends or siblings.
37. Design Your Fireside
It’s Christmas, it’s all about colourful, beautiful decorations, and one part of the house you shouldn’t miss is your fireside.
Get dried holly and ivy and use them to decorate the fireside. You’re going to spend a lot of time there because it is winter, so you do not want to miss this Spot.
If you do not have a fireplace, how about you set up large church candles in red or white colors to decorate the bottom with holly leaves, ivy’s, glitters. You guys can use this as a warming place. It is also perfect for Christmas sleepovers, storytelling, book reading.
38. Go Sledding
Don your boots, jackets, cap, and go out sledding around.
39. Gingerbread House Competition.
You and the kids should hold a gingerbread house competition and see whose house is the finest. The winner gets a gift. It is a Christmas activity for kids you wouldn’t want to miss.
40. Go To A Carol Concert
Whether at your church, your kid’s school, or workplace, you do not want to miss a Carol concert. It is always exhilarating. Don your kids in a Christmas outfit and head off to the show where you would sing those all-time classic carols.
41. Toast Marshmallows By The Fireside
Who does not love toasted marshmallows by the fireside? If you have a fireplace, grab some marshmallows, cookies, skewers, melted chocolates, strawberries, or jam to have a fantastic night’s snack.
42. Call Distant Relatives
A perfect time to catch up with friends and family is the Christmas season. Call or chat up those friends and relatives of yours you have not called since and reconnect back. Call the friends of your kids that are not living close by too.
43. Tree On The Wall
Create an illusion of a tree in your wall with your kids. You can use ornaments, washi tape, even bows to do this. It is super easy.
You can go freehand and let your imagination guide you or outline the pattern of a tree on a bare wall and start working—tape cards on the wall following the outline you have made.
I love using a washi tape. Get washi tapes in different colors, and designs (red and green) should be the base colors. Tape the walls to create an illusion of a tree. Complete the look by putting small gifts at the bottom of the tree.
44. Make Scented Candles
Christmas time is a time where you will use lots of candles. Why don’t you make your own unique by making it scented? Scented candles are super easy to make.
I am sure your kids will be super delighted when they hear, “we are making scented candles today.” Trust me; it is a fun Christmas activity for kids they won’t want to miss out on. Check out the internet for tutorials on how to make scented candles.
45. Decorate Your Christmas Tree
Decorating the Christmas tree is always a fun Christmas activity for kids. Bring together all the DIY ornaments you have made, stars mini-Santa Claus, snowflakes, and the store-bought ones, and start working as a team.
Choose a strategic spot for the tree and begin fixing the decor. It usually takes almost the whole day, so you should make some treats and drinks ahead that the kids can munch.
46. Hang Lights Around The House
I so love the Christmas lights. It makes every decor and designs come alive. So, get ladders or high chairs and hang lights on the Christmas tree, the wall, your kid’s room, everywhere around the house.
47. Design Your Personalized Stocking
It is possible to get beautiful stockings from shops that you would hang in the fireplace for Santa’s “visit.” However, you can make it unique by creating a unique design in each stocking. Get stockings from your local stores and add designs like beads, buttons, lace to make them special.
48. Decorate Desserts Together
Cookies, Cakes, Candies, rolls, you’ll be making a lot this time, and your kids should be part of it. Let them help you flood cookies, make drips on cakes, mix buttercreams, roll fondant, etc. It’s a perfect way for your kids to have fun, bond, and learn together.
49. Watch A Christmas Movie Together
As a family tradition, we all watch Christmas movies at my home. I bet you do this too. This year do not miss out. There are many Christmas movies to see, the nutcracker, the night before Christmas, and other films about Jesus’s birth.
50. Donate items
It’s Christmas, on everyone is in cheerful spirits, but not everyone has food or clothes or gifts from loved ones. One Christmas activity you do not want to miss with your kids is donating food items to aged couples, the poor, donating money, clothes, and anything you feel helpful. It is a Christmas tradition you should cultivate with the kids, and they will learn empathy.
In all we do this Christmas, let’s not forget the basis behind all these: love, sacrifice, and hope for humanity.
Light and love always.
Save this for later mama!
