Every year, for as long as we can remember, our family has done Christmas Countdown. The goal is to make sure we have family time every day leading up to Christmas. The activities make the Christmas season so much more special for us and have all become important traditions for our family. Most days we combine a couple items, otherwise, we would be counting down Christmas starting the day after Easter! I seem to always be looking through 1,000 scraps of paper with our Christmas countdown ideas, so for my own sanity's sake, I thought it would be best to just type up my master list of fun.
Watch...
- Watch "Elf", while drinking soda like Buddy
- Watch "Rudolf"
- Watch "A Christmas Story"
- Watch "It's a Wonderful Life"
- Watch "Polar Express" and don't forget the Hot Chocolate
- Watch "The Santa Clause" Write a letter to Santa aka a Christmas List for mom.
- Watch "Frosty the Snowman"
- Watch A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Watch "Home Alone" Christmas is a busy time of year chose a family member to call write, call, or text in the middle of all this Holiday Chaos.
- Watch "The Grinch that Stole Christmas"
- Find a new Christmas movie on Netflix... the first one we see, we watch!
- Watch "Mickey Mouse Twice Upon a Christmas"
- Watch "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" and enjoy some EggNog
Do...
- Play Christmas Mad-Libs
- Play Christmas Charades
- Play Christmas Trivia - winner gets out of a chore
- Play Christmas Pictionary
- Build a Snowman or make a Snow Angel
- Indoor Snowball Fight
- Decorate the Christmas Tree
- Decorate Outside the House
- Play Minute to Win it Games
- Collect all the change we can find and bring it to a bell ringer
- Do a random act of kindness
- Do a good deed for a family member
- Two Truths and a Lie Christmas Edition
- Go Christmas Light Looking and eat munchkins
- Pajama Dance Party to Christmas Music
- Decorate a Gingerbread House
- Write a Christmas List
- Make Paper Snowflakes
- Make Snow Ice Cream
- Play Santa Rescue
- Go See the Christmas Lights at Budweiser
- Collect a plate full of holiday treats and deliver to a friend/family
Consume...
- Eat Ribbon Candy
- Drink Eggnog
- Eat Andies Candies
- Make White Hot Chocolate
- Make Sour Cream Cookies
- Make Fudge
- Make Cookies for Santa
- Make Cranberry Nut bread
- Eat an Orange Smash
- Eat a Candy Cane
- Make white chocolate covered popcorn or pretzels
- Dessert BEFORE and AFTER dinner night
