Our ultimate advent activity list was such a success last year, so we have updated it for this year and it now has 75 activities on it.
Advent helps me focus on the joy of the season after losing my mum coming up four years ago on Christmas Day. it also helps us as a family not just keep looking forward to Christmas Day, but enjoy the build up. We are still using the advent calender that I made four years ago, but I have a great post with 24 homemade advent calenders which might give you inspiration for your own. This year we are also doing Advent acts of kindness to.
Ultimate Advent Activity List 2014
- Write and post your letter to Father Christmas
- Help ice the Christmas cake
- Make Christmas cards
- Make shapes with the cookie cutters and playdough
- Make Christmas shrinky dinks
- Make paper snowflakes
- Go to Carol Service
- Colour in some Christmas pictures
- Make some Christmas fairy cakes
- Make paper chains
- Collect Pinecones
- Make christmas popcorn
- Make gingerbread men
- Make a snow globe
- Help dry orange slices
- Make peppermint creams
- Make up a Christmas board game
- Put your PJ’s on and watch the Polar Express
- Start reading about the nativity
- Learn a new carol
- Write your Christmas cards and deliver local ones
- Make salt dough ornaments
- String popcorn to go on the tree
- Make a bird feeder
- Sing and dance to Christmas songs
- Make white pom poms and have a indoor snowball fight
- Make an indoor snowman
- Make reindeer cookies
- Make decorations with dried orange slices
- Make some Christmas cookies
- Watch a Christmas movie
- Make reindeer food
- Read a Christmas Story from our advent box
- Make air dry clay ornaments
- Make up a Christmas story
- Take a walk in the dark to look at the Christmas lights
- Have a picnic under the light from the christmas tree
- Attend crib service in church
- Make a Christmas video
- Make a christmas wreath
- Help trim the tree
- Make mince pies
- Make spiced cider
- Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it – If you can not find any then make some felt mistletoe
- Make Thick Hot Chocolate and Homemade Marshmallows
- Go on an christmas light scavenger hunt
- Put up a wreath
- Decorate our gingerbread house
- Make a family traditional dessert
- Dip candy canes in Hot Coco
- Sing Christmas carols
- Roast marshmallows over a fire
- Make christmas flavored ice cream in a bag
- Make a nativity out of LEGO
- Write a Christmas poem
- Make a christingle
- Make candy as a gift
- Do a craft with jingle bells
- Donate canned food to a pantry
- Make an angel for the top of the Christmas tree.
- Choose three of your toys and give them away to a charity shop.
- Write a Christmas Wish and hang it on your tree.
- Hang up your Christmas stocking
- Make a snow globe
- Make Jelly Baby Jesus Cakes
- Make orange and clove pomanders
- Go ice skating
- Make a lantern
- Go Ice Skating
- Make wrapping paper
- Help wrap presents
- Research christmas jokes
- Make some crackers
- Visit Father Christmas
- Make peppermint bark
- Make your own decoration
- Make fingerprint robin cards
DIY Advent Calendars for 2014
- Free printable DIY box advent calendar – Powerful Mothering
- Free printable random acts of kindness for kids – Mum in the Mad House
- Random acts of kindness printable advent calendar – Coffee Cups and Crayons
- 3D advent calendar – Craftulate
- Home made LEGO advent Calender – Frugal Fun 4 Boys
- DIY copper advent calendar by Growing Spaces
- A joke a day for Advent – Nurturestore
- Kindness Calendar – Hugo and Matilda
- 30 advent calendar cards – The (reformed) idealist Mom
- Paper Bag Christmas Countdown – Teach me Mommy
- Advent for Secular Families – Planet Smarty Pants
- Science Advent Calendar – Inspiration Laboratories
- Printable number stickers for DIY Advent Calendars – Mama Miss
- Memory verse Advent Calendar – Powerful Mothering
- Easy DIY Advent Calendar – Mamas Happy Hive
- 101 Magical Christmas ideas for advent – Family Days tried and tested
- Advent Crown – Mum in the Mad House
- Advent kindness jar – Mum in the Mad House
- DIY Paper Cup Calendar – Hodge Podge Crafts
- Toilet paper roll advent calendar – Danya Banya
- Easy DIY Advent Calendar – Red Ted Art
- Whimsical Handmade Advent Calendar – Gingerlillytea
- Homemade felt advent calendar – Mummy of Two
- 30 Fun Advent Calendar Activities – Hodge Podge Craft
- Geometric Advent Calendar – All for the boys
If that wasnt enough then there is last years round up of 24 DIY advent Calendars!
Love your list Jen – I’ve got my activity advent ready for later this week so I’ll add a link in to this x x
What a fantastic list – def going to be borrowing some of these ideas!
Thank you for including my whimsical advent calendar x
Love this list x
Great list of activities! And thanks for including our advent calendar – the kids are BUSTING to open the first number tomorrow. 🙂
Thanks for featuring my advent calendar! What an absolutely brilliant roundup x
Thanks for all the great ideas, and for the giveaway opportunity.