It’s the most wonderful time… of the year…
Yes, it’s time to start getting in the mood for the festive period. If you are a strictly no chat of Christmas until the 1st of December then bookmark this post and come back later. Otherwise, IT’S NEARLY CHRISTMAS!
If you love Christmas half as much as I do then you will most likely want to be getting rather organised now so you can make the most of enjoying all of December.
Back in the very early days of our relationship the boyf bought me an alternative re-usable advent calendar which was actually 24 small pouches that hang with pegs on a piece of string. In each pouch we write a festive activity so that we make the most of our December in the lead up to Christmas. See my original personal advent calendar.
It was wonderful to think beyond the usual and have an excuse to enjoy every minute of the festive period.
In that spirit of festiveness and inspired by my 100 Things To Do In Autumn list, I have been busy creating an epic list of potential activities you can get up to this Christmas.
100 Things To Do This Christmas
Cover the house in fairy lights (I just bought these)
Visit your local German Christmas Market (the Birmingham one is fantastic)
Make mulled wine or cider
Buy a Christmas jumper (I’m coveting this one)
Bake your own gingerbread
Prepare Christmas pudding
Sing at a carol service
Send Christmas cards
Visit your local castle or stately home (I love Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight)
Go watch a pantomime at the theatre
Go to your local town’s switching on of the lights
Visit a plush department store for festive shopping
Order your turkey or Christmas Day meat (we order from the M&S options)
Make your own advent calendar
Decorate your Christmas tree
Make a wreath for the front door (or cheat and buy one)
Compile your own Christmas playlist
Decorate the house
Create your ideal Christmas Day menu
Go to your local church
Make a christingle
Kiss under the mistletoe
Visit Santa’s grotto
Go see some reindeers (did you know the UK has a small group of free-range reindeer in Scotland?)
Watch ELF! (must-have Christmas movie)
Make some homemade gifts
Play board games
Hide chocolate coins around the house
Go sales shopping
Organise a Christmas party
Build a snowman
Make paper snowflakes
Make a nativity scene
Knit a hat or scarf
Frost the window
Drink port and eat cheese
Visit your Grandparents, parents, relatives
Make a Christmas Day centrepiece for the table
Eat mince pies
Buy some woolly socks
Hold a silly Christmas jumper day (it’s now charity fundraising day on the 18th)
Make Christmas Cake
Build a snowman (if you get snow)
Tell someone you love them
Watch It’s a Wonderful Life
Leave out a brandy for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph
Hang out a stocking
Make toffee vodka
Go tobogganing
Watch the Queen’s speech
Volunteer at a local food bank (visit the Trussell Trust to find yours)
Sing carols with the local Salvation Army
Watch A Christmas Carol
Sit around a fire and warm your cockles
Make DIY gift tags
Go to Winter Wonderland in London
Go ice skating
Listen to a carol concert at your local stately home such as this one at Eltham Palace
Feed the birds
Go to watch The Nutcracker ballet
Roast chestnuts on an open fire (or in the oven)
Visit a Victorian Christmas Fayre
Donate to your chosen charity
Make a Yule Log
Write a list of everything you are grateful for
Drink eggnog
Create a Christmas Eve snuggle box filled with fresh pyjamas and wooly socks
Make luxurious hot chocolate
Bake mini gingerbread houses for your hot chocolate mugs
Make paperchains
Have a snowball fight
Make honeycomb – my recipe for glitter honeycomb
Make your own snow globe
Wear a Santa hat
Dance to cheesy Christmas songs
Make your own Christmas tree ornament (ideas here)
Make dried oranges to decorate your home
Take an outing to a town or village you’ve never been to before
Wear lots of layers and take a winter’s walk in the woods (find your local woods)
Start a new Christmas tradition with your family/friends
Drink ice cold Baileys
Do a random act of kindness
Make your own wrapping paper
Stuff the stockings
Host a decorating Christmas biscuits party
Write a letter to Father Christmas
Make a wish
Make marshmallow vodka
Make a Christmas cocktail
Drive around to see the Christmas lights
Buy yourself a Christmas present and wrap it for under the tree
Bake cinnamon swirls
Play a game of cards
Have a festive picnic in your living room
Spend the day in your pyjamas
Eat brussels sprouts and enjoy it (my recipe here)
Organise a Secret Santa
Light a candle and give thanks
Take a family portrait
Read The Night Before Christmas
Would you like this list? I’ve made a free download version for you to print and keep.
Click here to save and download to your computer
What are your favourite things to do at Christmas?
Merry Christmas!
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