35 Advent Activity Ideas

With just a week until December 1st, I’ve been putting together this years activity advent calendar. I’ve made the kiddos an activity calendar for the past few years, and they love it! It’s a fantastic way to celebrate the Christmas season and spread out the excitement over December. You can see a couple of past years calendars here and here.

I love Christmas and almost all it brings – while the gifts are a lovely bonus, for me, I like to make the focus on the memories – having fun as a family, spending time with friends, making traditions and spreading a little cheer. My kiddos all have a chocolate advent calendar {and so do I}, because, what’s advent without a little chocolate in the morning? I’m not a fan of all of these ‘luxury’ calendars – full of beauty products or toys, for me, I don’t think that is what Christmas is all about.

Here are some ideas for including in an activity advent this year:

• Decorate the tree
• Make a gingerbread house
• Bake Christmas Cookies
• Play Secret Santa with your family
• Go Christmas Caroling
• Take an evening walk & see all the Christmas lights
• Make paperchains
• Go to a Christmas Market
• Make Cinnamon Ornaments
• Go out for Hot Chocolate
• Make Bottle Top Snowmen
• Decorate the Tree
• Make Reindeer Food
• Make a window garland
• Make paper snowflakes
• Watch Christmas cartoons
• Make Christmas cards
• Make Paper Lanterns
• Go to a Christmas Concert
• Watch the Nutcracker Ballet
• Make Christmas Playdough
• Make Snow Globes
• Decorate Pine Cones to make a table centerpiece
• Make a Pine Cone Birdfeeder
• Have a living room dance party to a Christmas album
• Make thumbprint snowmen
• Colour some Christmas pictures
• Make thank-you cards for after Christmas
• Hang some mistletoe and give everyone a kiss
• Make a popcorn garland
• Decorate a wreath
• Visit Santa’s Grotto
• Make footprint reindeer
• Make salt dough ornaments
• Go to a Panto

I’m also planning on printing out this Random acts of Kindness advent calendar – it looks like a fantastic way to encourage your kiddos to think about others over the festive season.

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