Looking for some fun and Christ-centered Advent activities for your tribe? Here’s our list. Subject to change when people get sick or we run out of sugar on the wrong day. etc. etc. Did I miss one your family loves? Comment below!
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Introducing my BRAND NEW BOOK, Memory-Making Mom, coming early 2019! Order now and you get the entire chapter on Holidays immediately. 🙂
One of our favorite ways to make memories in December is to make a “bucket list” for the things we really want to do, about one per day. Important note: It’s very grace-filled. By the end of December there are always things we’ve not done: a few crafts we never touched, an adventure we never quite got around to… And this is FINE! This list is to serve our family, not vice versa. It’s here if we need an idea. I find doing the work ahead of time to plan is easier — less planning, more celebrating.
25 Days of Family Advent Activities
December 1 — Open day 1 of the wrapped Christmas books. (We wrap everything that’s wintery-ish and take turns unwrapping one every day.) So today is the kick-off! We will unwrap our two today, our two FAVORITE read-alouds that we LOVE so much! We read one in the morning, one at night. I shared our two favorites in the holiday chapter of my book…which you GET NOW if you pre-order. (Order my book here.)
December 2 — Make Christmas countdown chain out of green and red construction paper. Kids LOVE this!
December 3 — Sign Christmas Cards and mail them (#praisehands for kids who can write addresses now!)
December 4 — Sign Christmas Cards and mail them (because lets be honest…this will take forever)
December 5 — Christmas craft from Hobby Lobby
December 6 – St. Nicholas Day – “Candy-Cane” someone’s yard (all the details in the holiday chapter of my book which you get when you pre-order Memory-Making Mom. 😉
December 7 — Take Christmas cookies to Dad’s office
December 8 — Christmas Movie Night! We will do It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time this year. (Our kids are 9, 7, and 4…)
December 9 — Christmas “Grace Day.” We rest. We read books. We watch football. Keepin it real yo. We may do an activity we missed, or maybe the kids have an idea for something new. Everything doesn’t need to be planned…Remember, nobody likes a “Memory-Making Monster.” *learned from experience
December 10 — Make Blessing Bags for Homeless
December 11 — Look at Christmas Lights
December 12 — Make Christmas cards for our neighbors (I get a whole slew of Christmas-y
December 13 — invite someone to dinner
December 14 — Christmas craft from Hobby Lobby
December 15 — Dad takes the boys shopping for family members (They’ve gone to the Dollar Store and picked out something; they love this so much.)
December 16 — Christmas Movie Night: Elf for the first time. (ps, I’d love to hear your feedback on age appropriateness of Elf?? I know some families do this with real little ones, but we have yet to do it. I feel like it’s okay??)
December 17 — Make Christmas cards for our mail lady and go buy her a gift card.
December 18 — Neighborhood Christmas Party & Caroling
December 19 — Homemade Cinnamon Ball Ornaments
December 20 — Candlelit Christmas Dinner
December 21 — Christmas craft from Hobby Lobby
December 22 — Christmas dinner with Grammy and Grampy (are you reading this, guys? Want to come over for dinner?! LOL)
December 23 — Kids wrap their presents for each other
December 24 — Christmas Eve Appetizers & Church
December 25 — Traditional Christmas breakfast and ALL THE THINGS!
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