Christmas, we love it. But as much as I love Christmas and the build up to it, it is important to me to focus on my family and not just on the commercial aspect of just Christmas Day. Part of the way we do this is by having advent activities that we do. It helps me to focus on my family each day in this busy busy period of the year. So here is our ultimate advent activity list for kids.

Now there is no way that we do all of these, nor do I actually have a set activity for each day now the boys are older. When they were younger, I would print the activities out and place one in each day of the advent calendar.
Ultimate advent activity list for Kids
- 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 food bank
- 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

We are still using the advent calendar that I made four years ago. Do you have a family advent calendar? If not you might want to take a look at 24 homemade advent calendars which might give you inspiration for your own.
Last year we also started doing an act of kindness each day of advent too, with our advent acts of kindness. I also love the idea of a Christmas Movie advent calendar.

some fantastic ideas here will need to try a few over the next few weeks
Some brilliant ideas thanks Jen, I have fav’d this so I can come back to it a bit nearer 😉
Some really great ideas, and i like that you can use it like kind of a tick list and have enough choices to keep the kids busy till Santa comes 🙂
What some absolutely fantastic sounding advent ideas 🙂 x
Pinned, Jen, we will have a Lego advent calendar this year and the Elf on the shelf, of course, but I will come back to this list for the days we want to actually engage in a creative activity in December!xx
what a comprehensive list – we are attempting a home made christmas this year so will certainly be referring back to this post
What a brilliant idea! We have something called the Kindness Elves which we use and each day they bring a little task for the kids to do to help someone else which I think is so important, as you’ve said to not just focus on the commercial aspect of it all. Thanks for sharing, I will definitely be borrowing some of your fab ideas!
I love this list! I, like most people, probably, am always trying to fight the commercial nature of Christmas and was getting increasingly despondent about it. This was exactly what I needed. Perfect!
oh these are amazing we do need to tick some if not all of these off our list!
Fab ideas, have pinned it ready for December.
What a brilliant round up – I really want to do some of these to enjoy time together. I am going to pin this 🙂 Kaz x
Wow that’s a whole Christmas holiday break sorted right there. Love your infographic.
Brilliant ideas for Advent I love it
A great little (big!) list. Hopefully we’ll get some time to do some of these this year
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great list!!! Pinned.
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