40+ of the Best Fun Christmas Activities for Families

Don’t miss out on these fun, family friendly Christmas and/or Winter activities!

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Are you looking for something to do this Christmas that will help engage and unite your family? Are you looking for experiences or ideas that will allow your family to have fun together and build lasting memories? Below is a compiled list of over 40 ideas for Christmas or Winter activities that can help your family bond, and give you some fun options for this holiday season! Don’t miss out on these fun, Christmas activities for families.

You can even use these ideas to create an activity based Advent Calendar! Maybe you can even start a new family tradition.

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Fun Christmas Activities for Families

Below are ideas for fun Christmas activities for your family. Some of these ideas are simple and quick enough that you can even incorporate them into a weeknight.

1. Build/decorate gingerbread houses
2. Have a snowball fight
3. Build a snowman
4. Make a hot cocoa bar (check out my DIY Hot Cocoa Bar here)
5. Watch a Christmas movie (or have a Christmas movie marathon)
6. Bake Christmas cookies
7. Have a Christmas music dance party
8. Go sledding
9. Go ice skating
10. Visit a tubing hill
11. Roast s’mores indoors
12. Have a winter fire (outdoors or indoors)
13. Read a Christmas book together
14. Make Christmas crafts
15. Make Christmas ornaments
16. Have a candy cane hunt
17. Write letters to Santa
18. Make Christmas cards
19. Make popcorn garland
20. Take a Christmas light tour
21. Sing Christmas carols (or go caroling)
22. Attend a Christmas play / show
23. Make paper snowflakes
24. Play Christmas party games
25. Make a nativity scene
26. Visit Santa
27. Go to a Christmas arts/crafts show
28. Pick out a Christmas tree
29. Decorate your Christmas tree (make it an event with music and food)
30. Build a model train
31. Track Santa (use the NORAD Santa Tracker found here)
32. Decorate your bedroom doors
33. Attend a Christmas light show
34. Watch a tree lighting ceremony
35. Build a snow fort
36. Make Christmas wreaths
37. Make snow angels
38. Have a family game night (find my list of the best board games by age here)
39. Decorate the windows with Christmas sticky decorations
40. Hang Christmas lights together
41. Create a Christmas village
42. Make snow globes
43. Make your own personal stockings
44. Decorate gingerbread men
45. Make decorative porch pots

If you don’t have snow in your area, you can find fake snowballs, and there is this amazing fake modeling snow that is re-usable, you can find it here.

Find my list of Family Game Night Board games here.

The Best Board Games for Family Game Night: By Age

Find out how to build your own snow globe here!

DIY Snow Globe

Find out about the candy cane hunt activity here.

Candy Cane Hunt | A Fun Christmas Activity for Kids

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