Planning for Christmas is even more fun with a Christmas bucket list! Make the holidays even more fun by planning everything you want to do with family and friends. If you’re celebrating as a couple, check out the couples bucket list as well. If celebrating with a family, you will love the bucket list for families.
Do the same activities each year or keep adding to your Christmas bucket list each year.
Christmas Bucket List
Make Christmas cookies
Pick a Christmas tree and decorate it
Go ice skating
Make red velvet cupcakes
Build a snowman
Go shopping for those you love
Stop at your favorite place for hot chocolate
Go caroling
Watch your favorite Christmas movies
Plan a special gift wrapping afternoon
Make hot chocolate topped with marshmallows at home
Get matching pajamas for the whole family
Hang Christmas stockings
Enjoy Christmas cocktails
Travel to the European Christmas markets
Make peppermint bark
Go for a Christmas afternoon tea
Use Christmas towels at home
Get matching Christmas socks for the whole family
Swap your sheets for Christmas themed sheets
Watch Christmas movies
Make a new Christmas tradition
Read Christmas books
Do a professional Christmas photoshoot
Drink hot apple cider
Make Christmas cards
Get a Christmas outfit for your pet
Go skiing
Make a hot chocolate bar
Drink mulled wine
Send a letter to Santa
Go for a special Christmas meal at a fancy restaurant
Sponsor a child
Go see Santa at a local department store
Open on gift on Christmas Eve
Go to see A Christmas Carol at a local theater
Leave cookies for Santa
Travel to Santa’s Village at Rovaniemi, Finland
Go sledding
Make s’mores
Donate toys to children in need
Go dog sledding
Scent your home with vanilla and cinnamon candles for Christmas
Get an advent calendar
Roast chestnuts
Relax in front of the fire
Make a sick child’s Christmas dream come true
This charity will help you make a child’s Christmas dream come true.
Listen to Christmas music
Send Christmas care packages to family and friends
Go to see the Nutcracker ballet
Listen to Mariah Carey’s Christmas album
Decorate your home for Christmas
Get a Christmas drink at Starbucks
Go on a Winter hike
Wear red and green for Christmas
Host a Christmas party with family and friends
Decorate a gingerbread house
Cook a traditional turkey dinner for Christmas
Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas
Bake a French yule log cake
Watch the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, NYC
Decorate the outside of your house with Christmas lights
Do a Christmas craft
Tip the people who make your life easier all year
Make handmade gifts
Dress up
Share memories with loved ones
Decorate a Christmas tree around a specific theme
Celebrate Sinterklaas in early December
Choose a special tree topper
Do Elf on the Shelf
Decorate a Christmas tree in one color
Host an ugly sweater party
Make a DIY photo booth
Show gratitude with written thank you notes to those you love
Collection a meaningful Christmas tree ornament each year
Host a cookie swap
Start a Christmas cookie tin collection
Play holiday-themed trivia
Start a nutcracker collection
Tour light displays and house decorations in your neighborhood
Decorate with poinsettias
Participate in Secret Santa
Volunteer in a soup kitchen
Eat Italian Panettone
Attend midnight mass
Visit local nativity scenes
Make paper snowflakes
Have a family game night
Prepare Christmas Eve boxes filled with surprises
Make homemade Christmas cards
Plan a vacation and spend Christmas someplace else
Have a cheese fondue night
Hide a Christmas pickle
Track Santa on Christmas Eve using the NORAD app
Snap a photo of the whole family on Christmas day every year
Hang mistletoe (and kiss under it)
Make your own wrapping paper
Have fun with Christmas crackers at Christmas dinner
Organize a Champagne breakfast
Make Christmas candy
Make Christmas fudge
Choose a special Christmas wrapping paper for gifts from Santa
Bake a family recipe
Have a candy cane treasure hunt
Do a random act of kindness during the month of December
Make pancakes on Christmas morning
Make a homemade Christmas wreath for your front door
Start a Christmas mug collection and use them all season
Visit a reindeer farm
See local nativity scenes
Have a snowball fight
Have an advent wreath
Make a special Christmas Eve toast
Have a chocolate fondue night
Attend a Christmas parade
Make a Christmas trifle
Go for a nature walk
See the rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, NYC
Go to a Christmas concert
Make a time capsule of the past year and open it 5 or 10 years later
Camp out under the Christmas tree one night
Give experience gifts
Stay up until midnight on Christmas Eve
Research Christmas traditions from other countries and choose one to try
Make homemade dog treats
Go to see the Christmas windows near you
Make salt dough ornaments
Create snowglobes from mason jars
Make eggnog
Hang Christmas garlands
Do a Christmas cross-stitch
Find a fun way to display your Christmas cards
Make birdseed ornaments for the birds in your garden
More Bucket List Inspiration
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- Best Friend Bucket List
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- Summer Bucket List
Christmas Bucket List
I hope you love these bucket list ideas to make your Christmas season even more special and memorable!
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