With all this free time, you might be wondering how to best spend it. There are lots of ways to celebrate the holiday season, and you can decide what activities appeal to you. Regardless, you should enjoy your holiday and do things that make you happy. Here are 12 suggestions for holiday fun, and a little inspiration on how to spend the holidays.
1. Friends and Family Time
This is a great opportunity to catch up with family that lives out of town or your cousins who you never see and live far away. Christmas is about being together and celebrating love and generosity. Take this time to spend time with your close friends and family. It’s also a nice time to tell them how you feel about them. It doesn’t have to be a gift, it can be a card or even a kind word.
Christmas is about being together.
2. Play Games with Family and Friends
Playing board games is a great way to get the family together. This will get people getting loud, screaming and altogether having a good time. Games are a good way to strike up a friendly competition with family, and it’s a great way to include a lot of people. Tired of the typical board game? Use your phone. There are tons of great game apps that you can download.
3. Christmas Crafts
Help decorate the house by making trees, angels, and elves. There are over 100 Christmas crafts that you can partake in. Whether it’s making your own Santa Clause or making a bunch of beautiful snowflakes, the possibilities are endless. Crafts can be whatever works for you. For some, this involves building a gingerbread house. For others it’s stringing together popcorn for the tree. Crafts can also make for great gifts. You can make your presents and add that personal touch.
Christmas baking is both fun and delicious.
4. Tobogganing
If there’s snow on your ground this is a really fun way to pass the time. Playing in the snow is a lot of fun and there are tons of things you can do in it. You can build a fort or a snow angel. You can even engage in a friendly and safe snowball fight.
5. Make a Snowman
If you’ve got snow, this is always a fun activity. You can make it your own and even have neighborhood competitions, and play to see who can build the best and most creative snowman.
Build a snowman this season.
6. Go Caroling
There are so many great Christmas songs and wouldn’t it be fun to visit houses and share some tunes? This is a great way to get into the holiday spirit.
If you can, play in the snow.
7. Make Christmas Cards
This speaks even louder than a present. Send a card and let someone know what they mean to you. Christmas is a good time to say thank you, but also a great time to express the love we feel in our heart.
8. Do some Holiday Baking
There are lots of treats to be had at this time. With a grown-up, or on your own, if you’re old enough, bake up some treats for the holiday season. You could even do gingerbread man and ice sugar cookies to look absolutely beautiful.
9. Decorate
Help get the house ready for the holidays and decorate. You can use your Christmas craft time to make decorations. You can also make decorations for the tree, and help your parents with that activity.
Christmas is a time to express love.
10. Get Festive
Wear red and green. On Christmas, show your holiday spirit. Put on a Santa’s hat. Whatever it may be, try to embrace the holiday as much as you can.
11. Check Out Lights
It’s always great to check out the houses that really put in an effort. Get your parents to take you around to all the nice houses. In some communities, they even arrange a light tour, which will take you to all the special houses. Christmas lights are a huge symbol of Christmas, and they are so beautiful to admire.
Christmas lights are beautiful to admire.
12. Shop
If you plan on buying gifts now is the time. Some of you might be the type to buy gifts months in advance, but many people are last minute. Try to get there before Christmas Eve, or as early as possible. Things sell out really fast, and if your looking for a popular toy, you want to start looking now.
There are lots of fun things you can do over the holidays.
Remember, you don’t have to buy gifts. You can make them, and they can come directly from your heart.
Clearly, there is a lot to do during the holiday season. This is just a teaser, there are so many other things you could do. Like go skiing with your family, or go on a vacation to someplace sunny. Christmas isn’t where you spend it, it's about the people you are with and the memories that you will make together to last a lifetime.
Have Your Say
What is your favorite way to celebrate the holidays? Do you do any of these things? Comment below!
