Buy a small gift for a child in the long-term care wing of the children’s ward, and bring a bouquet of flowers for his/her mother.Drive to a store that has a Salvation Army bell ringer just to donate (without going into the store to buy anything!).Write a letter to a family friend or some troops stationed overseas.Take a few small gifts to a shelter for women and children.Visit an elderly home and hand out homemade cookies.Fill a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child.Shop for a gift to put under the Tree of Joy (or another charity).Get your FREE download now: All 150 ideas in printable format! (I left off ideas and traditions for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, but feel free to add them in the comment section too!) Please add additional ideas in the comments – let’s truly make this an ultimate Christmas activity list. Hope this helps you plan a little holiday fun with your family. We’re also using a reading plan for the Jesus Storybook Bible this year, so we’ll be “opening” our little Advent stockings twice a day – in the morning for an activity and at night for our bible reading. (I’m yet to narrow my own list down to twenty-four for this year – ha! Maybe tomorrow.) I expected to stop around thirty or forty ideas… but they just kept rolling, so I decided to tidy them up by category and share them with you. I sat down to plan this year’s family Advent activities and thought I’d begin by brainstorming ideas and then choosing twenty-four of them from my list. Skim the list and choose 24 that suit your family! 150+ Advent activities (or Christmas countdown activities) by category:įun at home, outings, serving others, in the kitchen, decorating, faith-based, crafting, movies, winter-specific, and summer-specific.
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