2015-10-28

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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