120 Holiday Bucket List Ideas for the Most Festive Christmas Season

Welcome to the world of Christmas festivities! In our holiday bucket list, we’ve curated a treasure trove of joyful activities to make your holiday season oh-so-special. Whether you’re seeking festive decorations, comfort food recipes, or memory-making traditions, our list has got you covered. Let’s make this holiday season one to remember and embrace all that Christmas has to offer.

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Christmas Celebration Ideas

Set up your Christmas tree and decorate it.
If you have snow, build a unique snowman.
Christmas activities for kids- make an igloo in the snow.
Buy Christmas presents. If you go early, you will beat the crowds.
Make a birthday cake for Jesus. 🎂 Click here for our FAVORITE chocolate cake recipe.
Put out cookies, milk, and carrots for Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve night.
Christmas bucket list for families- Go on a festive drive touring the Christmas lights in your town.
Christmas activities for teenager- go ice skating with your family and friends.
Get your kid’s picture taken with Santa.
Create a festive hot chocolate bar.
Attend a tree lighting ceremony.
Have a family snowball fight. Click here for this fun indoor option.
Give money to a kids charity so they can have a nice Christmas, too.
Christmas things to make- bake homemade candy cane cookies.
One of those fun things to do over Christmas break- go to a Nutcracker ballet.
Make a popcorn garland.
Shop the local Christmas shops.
Decorate your house with festive Christmas décor.
More Christmas bucket list ideas- host a gingerbread house competition.
Take a Christmas photoshoot. Have your family wear coordinating outfits.
Send Christmas cards.
Visit a Christmas tree farm.
Cut down your own Christmas tree.
Make homemade hot chocolate.
Create a festive cookie bar.
ugly Christmas sweaters.
Go sledding.
Put together a fun Christmas puzzle.
Make/buy Christmas gifts for your kids teachers.
Go Christmas caroling.
Play Christmas trivia.
Make a fun Christmas wreath.
Bake a homemade Christmas casserole.
Take gifts/food to a homeless shelter.
Give a gift to your mail carrier.
Read the Christmas story in the Bible.
Serve a festive ham dinner more often than just Christmas day.
Make a Christmas play list.
Roast marshmallows and make s’mores at your kitchen table. Click here for more inspiration.
Bake Christmas treats and deliver them to your neighbors.
Build a nativity scene with your kids.
Watch The Grinch.
Whip up a homemade batch of eggnog.
Make a Christmas cake or cupcakes.
Go skiing.
Visit a Christmas market.
Remember the roots of the Christmas holiday and the true reason for the season. 🙏
Make peppermint bark.
Wear a Santa hat.
Holiday bucket list #50- host a White Elephant gift exchange.
Make dehydrated oranges and create festive gift packaging embellishments, garland, and edible party treats.
Bake homemade cinnamon rolls.
Have a gift wrapping party.
Spend the day in your pajamas.
Build a Christmas pillow fort for your kiddos.
Christmas bucket for kids- make a paper chain Christmas countdown.
Wear cozy ugg boots.
Decorate sugar cookies with your family and friends. How fun is this customizable sugar cookie stamp?
Enjoy a yummy peppermint mocha coffee or hot chocolate.
Enjoy a piece of Christmas fudge. Oh my, yum!
Surprise decorate your kid’s rooms for the holiday.
Give a stranger a Christmas present.
Make Christmas marshmallow fluff dip.
Go on a Christmas lights scavenger hunt. Click here for free printables.
Make ice cream out of snow.
Wear matching festive family pajamas.
Things to do on Christmas day at home- let your kiddos build a fort and sleep by/under the Christmas tree.
Tie-Dye the snow.
Christmas face painting.
Have your friends and family over and read, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Make a homemade Christmas wreath for your front door.
Play Christmas Bingo.
Enjoy a gingerbread latte.
Sponsor a child through Compassion International.
Wear fuzzy Christmas socks/slippers.
Dress your dog up into a reindeer costume and have a photoshoot.
Make a gorgeous Christmas charcuterie board.
Host a cookie exchange party.
Make a homemade hand print or puppy print ornament. Click here for sweet ornament and dog party inspo.
Sing Christmas karaoke.
Change the background of your phone to a festive Christmas scene.
As you receive Christmas cards with family photos on them, take a picture of the card with your phone and save it as their contact picture.
Take a Polar Plunge.
Pay it forward and give your neighbors a surprise Christmas present.
Use festive essential oils and make a homemade holiday room spray and Christmas sugar scrub.
Make a snow cone out of snow.
Play holiday music each night at dinner time. The perfect Pandora station for this (my favorite) is called Smooth Jazz Christmas Radio.
Place an orange at the toe of your stockings. I will help hold the stocking’s shape.
Wrap your coffee table books in wrapping paper. 🎁
Have your girlfriends over for a Sunday Christmas Brunch.
Add Christmas scented essential oils to your diffuser.
Add pomegranate seeds to your salad.
Make/put in your powder room, a scented bar of Christmas soap.
Create a beautiful Christmas tablescape for your holiday gatherings. Click here for more ideas and tips.
Watch the Hallmark channel all season long.
Go to church on Sunday mornings.
Spend time talking to Jesus. Listen to your thoughts as you sit quietly and wait for Him to speak back to you.
Bring soup to an elderly friend or neighbor.
Read a book by the fireplace.
Paint your nails a festive Christmas color or pattern.
Donate blankets to a shelter.
Wear bright red lipstick.
Wear Christmas or winter earrings.
Make a breakfast charcuterie board for your family.
Sample multiple flavors of hot chocolate.
Wrap your front door to look like a giant present by wrapping ribbon around it to mimic a bow.
Make paper snowflakes.
Drive through a live nativity.
Be a snowbird and go on vacation to a warmer weather state. Yes please! LOL! 🌴
Put a Christmas collar on your fur baby.
Buy a new winter coat.
Coordinate family outfits for Christmas day.
Throw boiling water into the cold air and watch it turn into snow.
Knit a Christmas scarf.
Christmas bucket list for couples- kiss your sweetie under the mistletoe.
Hang candy canes on the Christmas tree.
Go on a cozy horse and buggy ride.
Add Elf on the Shelf to your festivities. Click here for fun Elf on the Shelf ideas.
Visit a local animal shelter and adopt a pooch.
Drum roll, please! Last, but not least! Dress up in the Grinch costume and scare the dog. 🤣