Advent Calendar Activities – Planning Ahead For Christmas
Kaycee and Ella love our activity advent and they’ve already been requesting activities to be added this year! With this in mind, I’ve been looking for new ideas and came up with a list of 80 activities that I can pick from each year. I’m sharing it with you today so you can be prepared when Advent starts 🙂
| Act out a Christmas play |
| Decorate the Christmas cake |
| Make Christmas cards |
| Write and deliver the Christmas cards |
| Use Christmas cookie cutters with playdough |
| Make Christmas shrinky dinks |
| Make paper snowflakes |
| Have a Christmas party |
| Colour in some Christmas pictures |
| Make a winter scene picture using items collected from nature |
| Make paper chains |
Collect pinecones and decorate them with glitter glue |
| Read the Nativity story |
| Make salt dough ornaments |
| String popcorn and hang it out for the birds |
| Make a bird feeder |
| Make peppermint creams |
| Make Christmas cookies |
| Watch a Christmas movie |
| Make reindeer food |
| Read a Christmas story |
| Write a Christmas story |
| Walk around your neighbourhood at night to see the Christmas lights |
| Decorate the Christmas tree |
| Make mince pies |
| Make mulled wine |
| Kiss under the mistletoe |
| Go to a carol service |
| Make hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows |
| Hang a wreath |
| Make a gingerbread house |
| Make edible gifts
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| Dip candy canes in hot chocolate |
| Write a Christmas wish and hang it on the Christmas tree |
| Visit Father Christmas |
| Wrap gifts |
| Go ice skating |
| Eat dinner by candlelight |
| Read a Christmas bedtime story by candlelight |
| Make marshmallow snowmen |
| Sing Christmas songs |
| Make a Christingle |
| Visit a Christmas market
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| Make gingerbread men |
| Have a family games night |
| Have a North Pole breakfast |
| Make snowman pancakes |
| Write and post your letter to Father Christmas |
| Picnic in front of the Christmas tree |
| Have a Christmas tea party |
| Put your PJs on and watch the Polar Express |
| Make teacher gifts |
| Pick out a Christmas tree |
| Go for a drive to see the Christmas lights |
| Tell Christmas jokes |
| Have a red and green dinner |
| Set up a Nativity scene |
| Do a Christmas puzzle |
| Go Christmas shopping |
| Make glitter playdough |
| Visit the elderly and take treats |
| Go Christmas carolling |
| Hang mistletoe and get a kiss |
| Have breakfast for dinner |
| Play Christmas bingo |
| Make Christmas tags |
| Have an ice cream sundae |
| Make Christmas fudge |
| Have a snowball fight |
| Build a snowman
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| Christmas scavenger hunt |
| Make Christmas fairy cakes |
| Watch Elf then answer the trivia questions |
| Go on a sleigh ride |
| Make a Christmas dessert |
| Go to your town’s Christmas lights switch on |
| Go sledding |
| Paint rocks with Christmas greetings on and leave them out in public for other people to find |
| Donate food to a food bank |
| Sort out your toys and donate some to a charity shop |
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