The Christmas holidays are almost here! One of my favourite parts about Christmas is that it brings everyone together – so in the lead up to the holiday, why not dedicate some time to have some fun and create new memories with your loved ones? Here are the Top 7 Christmas Festive Activities To Try in 2022.
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1. Make Christmas Cookies
We can all agree that one of the best parts of the holiday season are all the sweet treats! Christmas cookies are always a treat at Christmas time and they are super easy for kids to make. Check out these cookie recipes for some inspiration. Don’t forget to make some extra cookies for Santa and his helpers!
2. Christmas Light Viewing
There’s nothing more magical and calming than driving around the suburbs and gazing at Christmas lights. There are many streets where you and your family can enjoy Christmas light displays. Sydneysiders can check them out here.
3. Matching Pyjamas
Helping many get into the festive spirit, matching Christmas pyjamas have become increasingly popular over the years. Spend the big day in the best matching Christmas pyjamas – a fun and exciting way to get the whole family involved. So, if you are planning for those family snaps, you need to get in early as they can sell out pretty quickly.
4. Play Kris Kringle a.k.a Secret Santa
Kris Kringle has become one of the most popular traditions to celebrate with family, friends and co-workers in the spirit of the Christmas holidays – its fun and easy to organise. Simply, bring a group together, and let each participant write down their name on a piece of paper, fold it and put it in a box or container. Shake the hat to shuffle the names around, then give each participant a chance to pick out a name. Next, set a budget fow how much each participant should spend.
There is also the option of using an online Kris Kringle generator instead. The great thing about this option is that you know you’ll never draw yourself; you can set exclusions and even add another member to the group later. Fancy stuff, I know!
5. Donate Toys
Christmas is a special holiday to many people around the world, and the ones who truly enjoy it the most are children. It is a great idea to donate preloved toys at Christmas, so the less fortunate kids can enjoy it too. Wondering where to donate toys this Christmas? Here are 10 charities looking for donations this festive season.
6. Make a Gingerbread House
What’s better than getting together with your loved ones and spending some quality time making gingerbread houses? This is a fun, hands-on activity that will get everyone in the Christmas spirit, and the kids will LOVE it! The best part of all is getting to eat your creation when you’re finished! How’s that for a Christmas activity?
7. Watch Christmas Movies
With the holiday season just around the corner, there’s not a better time to start winding down and relaxing. What better way to do that than with Christmas movies? These are the movies that take us back to our childhood memories, and capture that special feeling.
Here are my 10 top Christmas movies to binge-watch this holiday season:
With their daughter, Blair, away in Peru, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas all together until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate it at the last minute.
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.
One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City – and the same criminals are not far behind.
A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for eight years, but it might come to an end if he doesn’t find a Mrs. Claus.
Santa, a.k.a. Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
What festive activities will you be trying out this Christmas holiday season?
