203 Things To Do This Christmas: The ULTIMATE Festive Bucket List

An epic list of things to do this Christmas, this is the ultimate festive bucket list. The festive season is one many of us want to savour and enjoy. It is a time of joy, connection, laughter, fun, and inspiration. It is a time of devotion, healing, and love. It is a time of making, crafting, decorating, baking, cooking, drinking, and sleeping. It is for hugs, high fives, kisses, and snuggles. 

For a long time, the countdown to Christmas has been one of excitement. The advent, along with the advent calendar helped us track those 24 days towards Christmas. Usually, we’d be treated with a cute picture or a little chocolate behind each door. But what if we could celebrate each day in December with a different Christmas activity? What if we combine a Christmas to-do list with the countdown.

There are loads of things to do before Christmas, from Christmas events to Christmas games. There are all kinds of Christmas activities for the family, or maybe you are looking for Christmas activities for couples.

To help you get the most out of this Christmas season we have put together an epic bucket list of things to do this Christmas. We have divided the list up into sections to help you pick out the ideal things to add to your own ideas for Christmas list. 

Many of these activities you can do throughout the holidays season, some are activities you can on Christmas Day. If you are looking for things to do on Christmas Day with family you are sure to find inspiration and Christmas ideas here.

Read on for Christmas fun and get your Christmas to do list ready. And if you would like a copy of the list to download the option box is below.

ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS BUCKET LIST | THINGS TO DO AT CHRISTMAS

Make Christmas Food and Drink

1. Decorate your own gingerbread
2. Make mulled wine
3. Prepare Christmas pudding
4. Order your turkey or Christmas Day meat
5. Create your ideal Christmas Day menu
6. Make an epic Christmas Eve buffet spread
7. Drink port and eat cheese
8. Eat mince pies
9. Bake Christmas Cake
10. Make a Yule Log
11. Drink eggnog
12. Make luxurious hot chocolate 
13. Bake mini gingerbread houses for your hot chocolate mugs
14. Make honeycomb
15. Drink ice cold Baileys
16. Make Christmas pudding vodka
17. Make a Christmas cocktail
18. Bake cinnamon swirls on Christmas Day morning
19. Cook brussels sprouts the fancy way
20. Make filled iced cubes with mint, raspberries, edible flowers
21. Make a fancy food platter
22. Plan easy-to-make Crimbo Limbo dinners
23. Plan what to do with Christmas dinner leftovers
24. Make lebkuchen
25. Have a cookie decorating competition
26. Stay healthy with a winter fruit salad
27. Make sloe gin
28. Make infused vodka
29. Roast marshmallows in the fireplace
30. Host a Christmas brunch party

Create Joyful Decor

1. Decorate the Christmas tree
2. Cover the house in fairy lights
3. Decorate the house with Christmas themed decor
4. Hang out a stocking
5. Make DIY gift tags
6. Make paper chains
7. Buy a new Christmas decoration
8. Create a bauble window display
9. Set up a hot chocolate station in your home or at a party
10. Create a festive fireplace display
11. Cover the bannister in lights or garlands
12. Make your front door or porch look festive
13. Decorate the kitchen with greenery
14. Start a festive-inspired collection of trinkets
15. Buy vintage ornaments

Fun Crafts and DIY To Do

1. Make your own advent calendar
2. Create a Christmas Eve box
3. Make a wreath for the front door
4. Make a Christingle
5. Make some homemade gifts
6. Make a nativity scene
7. Knit a hat or scarf
8. Frost the window
9. Make paper snowflakes
10. Make a Christmas Day centrepiece for the table
11. Make your own snow globe
12. Make your own Christmas tree ornament
13. Make dried oranges to decorate your home
14. Make your own wrapping paper
15. Make a Christmas gift basket for someone you like
16. Make a personalised Christmas stocking
17. Personalise a Christmas ornament
18. Make a twig Christmas tree
19. Doodle Christmas trees
20. Decorate gift bags
21. Make a Christmas tree suncatcher
22. Make felt Christmas tree decorations
23. Make a festive photo album
24. Make your own Christmas gonk
25. Make a reindeer garland
26. Make cards with festive quotes
27. Bake scented salt dough ornaments
28. Make a popcorn garland
29. Make birdseed ornaments for the trees outside
30. Create a DIY holiday cards display
31. Make a DIY gift for a teacher or mentor
32. Make reindeer food for Rudolph and friends

 

Dress in Festive Fashion

1. Buy a Christmas jumper
2. Buy some woolly socks
3. Wear a Santa hat
4. Pick out your best winter coat
5. Plan your festive party outfits
6. Donate your old coats to charity
7. Buy the family matching pyjamas
8. Wear the sparkliest thing you can find
9. Invest in some decent thermals

Go On Seasonal Activities and Outings

1. Visit your local German Christmas Market (or go visit one of the beautiful Christmas Markets in Europe)
2. Go watch a pantomime at the theatre
3. Go to watch The Nutcracker ballet
4. Volunteer to befriend the elderly in your community
5. Volunteer your time with homeless people and rough sleepers in the UK
6. Visit your local castle or stately home 
7. Go to your local church or cathedral for Christmas service
8. Go to your local town’s switching on of the Christmas lights
9. Visit department store for festive shopping
10. Visit Santa’s grotto
11. Visit some reindeer
12. Go sales shopping
13. Visit your Grandparents, parents, relatives
14. Go tobogganing or sledging
15. Attend Midnight Mass
16. Donate to your local food bank
17. Sing Christmas carols
18. Go to Winter Wonderland
19. Go ice skating
20. Listen to a carol concert at your local heritage site
21. Feed the birds
22. Visit a Victorian Christmas Fayre
23. Have a snowball fight
24. Take an outing to a town or village you’ve never been to before
25. Wear lots of layers and take a winter’s walk
26. Do a random act of kindness
27. Get a photo with Santa
28. Drive around to see the Christmas lights on houses in your neighbourhood
29. Go to a Christmas tree farm
30. Go on a hot chocolate date
31. Visit the local garden centre for winter plants
32. Book a mini-break somewhere cold and wintery
33. Spend the day at your local botanical gardens
34. Go for a winter dip in the sea
35. Go bird watching for winter birds
36. Forage for mistletoe
37. Forage for berries
38. Reach out to an old friend
39. Donate toys to charity
40. Go to an immersive theatre experience
41. Shop for second-hand or vintage board games
42. Sip drinks at a winter rooftop bar or winter chalet
43. Visit some ice sculptures
44. Check out a winter pop-up bar
45. Eat at a winter street food fair
46. Attend a festive screening of a classic Christmas movie
47. Take part in a wreath-making workshop
48. Swap cookies with your neighbour
49. Play Christmas tree eye spy on a car ride (tally white vs coloured lights)
50. Go on a Christmas themed train ride
51. Send a festive card/letter to a lonely person
52. Experience a choir’s evensong
53. Go on a festive guided walk
54. Go thrifting for vintage Christmas ornaments and decorations
55. Book a staycation in your country
56. Visit Santa in Lapland
57. Go skiing

Christmas Activities To Do At Home

1. Write your own Christmas bucket list
2. Set your winter intentions and goals
3. Send Christmas cards
4. Write a letter to Santa
5. Compile your own Christmas playlist
6. Organise a Christmas party
7. Create a December festive routine
8. Kiss under the mistletoe
9. Organise a candy cane treasure hunt
10. Watch Elf
11. Play board games (we love Cluedo)
12. Hide chocolate coins around the house
13. Build a snowman
14. Make snow angels
15. Organise a Christmas jumper day
16. Read a Christmas-themed novel
17. Tell someone you love them
18. Watch It’s a Wonderful Life
19. Leave out brandy for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph (see what children around the world leave out for Santa)
20. Light a candle and give thanks
21. Watch the Queen’s speech
22. Watch A Christmas Carol
23. Celebrate Victorian Christmas Style
24. Sit around a fire
25. Roast chestnuts on an open fire
26. Donate to your chosen charity
27. Write a list of everything you are grateful for
28. Dance to cheesy Christmas songs
29. Start a new tradition with your family/friends
30. Stuff the stockings
31. Host a decorating Christmas biscuits party
32. Write a letter to a distant relative
33. Make a wish
34. Buy yourself a present and wrap it for under the tree
35. Play a game of cards
36. Have a festive picnic in your living room
37. Spend the day in your pyjamas
38. Organise a Secret Santa
39. Take a family portrait
40. Read ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas poem
41. Go to the pub for a roast dinner
42. Play Christmas carol pictionary
43. Visit Hogwarts in the Snow at Harry Potter Studios
44. Have a Christmas movie marathon
45. Host a Christmas tea party
46. Track Santa on NORAD on Christmas Eve
47. Organise a charity fundraiser
48. Organise a Christmas fancy dress party
49. Play Christmas movie bingo
50. Look after your mental health with Christmas self-care routine
51. Learn how to fold table linen in fun ways for Christmas table
52. Host a Boxing Day BBQ
53. Play Elf on a shelf for the kids
54. Listen to Christmas podcasts
55. Plan your Christmas TV viewing
56. Host a wrapping gifts party
57. Play ‘pin the tail on Rudolph’
58. Organise a video chat with out-of-town friends or relatives
59. Have a slumber party under the tree
60. Make a wish

And there you have it, the ultimate festive bucket list. What will you be adding to you things to do at Christmas list?