Christmas time is one of our family’s favorite seasons of the year. Along with so many others, we love being cozy with our family and creating memories. These Christmas Advent Activities are the perfect ideas for any family to add to their holiday calendar.

25 Ideas for your Holiday Advent Calendar

25 Fun Holiday Ideas

1. Gingerbread Houses or do an entire village. I’ve seen cute ideas all over {Walmart, Target, Sams Club..}
2. Snowball fight – we don’t get a lot of snow so we have these snowballs and it’s a blast. Only I got hit in the eyeball once, and that wasn’t too pleasant 😅
3. Hot Cocoa Bar – spice this up with all different kinds of ideas. A Pinterest search will spark some fun ideas. I’ll share ours in the next few days. Tune into @lifeasagriffin on Instagram to see.
4. Elf-athon – One of my favorite ideas ever because I came up with the idea. We sit in front of the tv, watch elf, and eat breakfast for dinner. You can see details here!

5. Christmas Puzzle – there are so many cute puzzles out there. Here is the one I got for this year. I also found this puzzle board where you can work on the puzzle.
6. Family Game Night – This is the newest game that I got and we have been LOVING it!!
7. Pick out new ornaments – each year it has been super fun to find a new ornament that is specifically for each person for that year. Search Etsy for things you have been loving for the year and you’ll be sure to find something cute and personalized.
8. Make new ornaments – Here are some that we have made in the past

9. Write Letters to Santa – you can find all sorts of cute stationary to write all your wishes on. I found some at the Dollar Spot in Target a year ago and we are just using those again.

10. Our Kind of Christmas Random Acts of Kindness – this has become one of my very favorite Christmas traditions.
11. Holiday Sleepover in the living room
12. String oranges & cranberries – check out how did this. It’s super easy.
13. Snow Sensory Bins – there are a lot of ways you can do this, but we love this snow. Best part is you can reuse it as long as it doesn’t get dirty. Also these resin letters are some of my favorite.
14. Make Hot Cocoa Bombs – I’ve actually never done this, but we will share our process on Insta.
15. Polar Express Night – Make a fun train to sit in, grab some treats and watch the Polar Express
16. Go see Christmas Lights
17. Light the World – Every year you can join in on an incredible experience and help ‘light the world’ by doing kind deeds every day for the month of December. Text ‘Light’ to 71234 to get daily prompts.
18. Make Christmas Cards: Holiday cards are so much fun. And it is so fun to get homemade ones, especially from kids. Start these early and they can make them for all their extended family.
19. Holiday Drawing/Painting
20. Bake Cookies
21. New Holiday Book: These are the picks for this year. Camille, Tylee, Camden, Abigayle, Lincoln
22. Homemade Christmas Playdoh
23. Nativity: Act out the nativity
24. Holiday Pajamas
25. Gingerbread Day: Do everything gingerbread related – read the gingerbread man, make gingerbread cookies, decorate gingerbread houses.

Hope you enjoyed these Christmas advent activity ideas. Kids make holidays much more fun. And although it’s a lot of work and you definitely don’t need to over stress yourself, they are only little once. And I LOVE this kind of stuff 😉

XX,

Camille