In order to make the most of the holiday season, we started using a “bucket list” of sorts. It’s mostly a checklist of activities we want to include in our holiday celebration.

• Make a countdown chain with activities on allotted days
• Decorate for Christmas

  

• Shop for Operation Christmas Child box gifts
• Shop for a family gift

  

• Choose an Angel Tree Child {or 3}
• Go look at Christmas lights

  

• Bake Cookies for Neighbors
• Make gifts for mail carrier and trash collectors

  

• Read ALL the Christmas/Winter books
• Play with a miniature or Act Out the Nativity Scene

  

• Christmas themed learning {history of Santa, Christmas Tree, mistletoe, etc}
• Advent Crafts

  

• Watch ALL the Christmas movies
• Play in the Snow {sled, run, hike, snowball fight}

  

• Wear fun Christmasy Clothes
• Make Snow Ice cream

  

• Take pictures with Santa {with Cousins}
• Make Gingerbread Houses (or Graham Cracker Houses!)

  

• Build a snowman {real or pretend}
• Attend or be in the local Christmas Parade

  

• Volunteer as a family
• Make up any excuse to party with friends

  

• Read the Christmas Story {Luke 2}
• Attend a Christmas Eve Service
• Attend the local “Christmas Story Enactment”
• Have a Birthday Party for Jesus

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  Travel to see Family {most years}
• Give and receive Christmas gifts {spiritual, need, want}

To create your own Christmas Season Bucket List:

1. Discuss with your family the traditions they enjoy and would like to do this year.
2. Break out your calendar and see which ones are feasible. You may have already done a lot of the things on the list about {we started ours before Thanksgiving} but sitting around talking about the traditions you’ve already done can be almost as much fun as planning to do them.
3. Print our Ultimate Christmas Season Bucket List! Click on the image above to download your own free copy!

Merry Christmas!