46 Festive & Fun Activities Your Family Can Enjoy at Home for Christmas

46 Festive & Fun Activities Your Family Can Enjoy at Home for Christmas

If there was ever a year to stock up on things to do at home for Christmas, this may be the year! Even if you get out to explore and enjoy the holiday season where you live, there will be a few down days of relaxed activities on the calendar.

Visiting friends & family, going to concerts, museums or the theatre may (or may not) be on your list. But with these forty-six (46!) resources there are absolutely enough to get you through December and much of January. Preschool to high school and everything in between! There are fun games, apps, recipes, and Christmas unit studies for everything from Shakespeare & Dickens to Photo Scavenger Hunts and 64 pages of coloring & journaling pages to help you celebrate the season with exciting activities and ways to connect as a family.

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Printables, Coloring & Notebooking Pages

There is always one person who would rather stay inside by the fire with a good book, a coloring page or a journaling activity. If you have someone like that in your house, these resources will keep them warm and bored-free for quite some time.

• 33 Color of Christmas Journaling Pages
• Fun Printables to Keep Kids Occupied During Christmas Break
• FREE Christmas Cookies Cut and Paste Activity Pack
• FREE Christmas Symbols Adult Coloring and Notebooking
• FREE Printable Christmas Countdown Calendar for Kids
• FREE Printable Christmas Coloring Pages
• FREE Christmas Devotional Journaling Pages Printable
• FREE Christmas Book to Record Memories
• 34 Christmas Coloring Pages

Art

Go on a walk, explore Christmas food from around the world. It’s all about having fun crafting and drawing. Christmas art can take your imagination to places you haven’t considered. For your artsy-craftsy kids, these activities will be so enjoyable. 

• FREE Christmas Foods Around the World Guided Drawing
• FREE Printable Sketchbook Prompts for Christmas
• Scripture Inspired Winter Photo Scavenger Hunt

Games To Play At Home For Christmas 

Family game night, movie night  & read alouds! Yep, that makes for a bundle of fun on cold winter evenings when everyone is done sledding skiing, and building snowmen.

• 70+ Christmas Themed Educational Games for Kids
• FREE Christmas Story Charades – Color and Black/White
• Games in Your Homeschool + ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas MadLib FREEBIE
• FREE Charades Game for Christmas
• Family Fun Night Christmas Games
• FREE Printable Christmas Movie Party Guide for the Season
• FREE Sudoku Christmas Puzzles
• Fun Downloadable Christmas Apps for the Holiday Season

Literature & Languages

Who doesn’t love a good book to read and learn about over the winter months? A Christmas themed book is always enjoyable at any age. Are your kids curious about what Christmas was like ‘in olden times’? Maybe they are already studying Shakespeare and Dickens and it just makes sense to enjoy learning about Christmas in Medieval or Victorian England. These resources, and a few more covering literature and languages, are perfect for the whole family to enjoy together.

• Christmas with Shakespeare & Dickens
• FREE Christmas Reading Passages
• 30-Day Christmas Bible Reading Plan
• Christmas Words for Kids in 3 Languages {Printable 3-Part Cards}
• A Christmas Carol FREE Printables and Unit Studies
• 14 FREE Pages of Christmas Copywork
• Lesson for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Bible Reading Plan and Christmas Book Countdown
• Printable Christmas 3-part cards

Get your 64 Pages of Christmas Coloring & Journaling Pages at the end of this post.

Cooking & Planning

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without planning, baking & cooking up a storm, is it? Make being at home for Christmas memorable by carving out some time for baking and having fun in the kitchen or making gifts together. If your kids are ready to have fun in the kitchen with you or you want to re-focus & intentionally prepare for a meaningful Christmas season with your family, these recipes and planners will help you make it the best Christmas ever. 

• 3 Ways to Prep Your Home & Heart for Christmas
• Holiday Recipes & Fun Activities For A Healthy And Affordable Holiday Season
• Gluten-Free Christmas Cookie Recipes
• FREE Printable Christmas Trees Advent Calendar
• Free Christmas Holiday Planner
• FREE Printable Baking Planner for Christmas
• FREE Ultimate Gift Advent Planner and Christmas Printables
• Exploring Family Christmas Traditions Your Family Will Love – FREE Printable
• Grain-FREE Christmas Cookies for the 25 Days of Christmas
• Discover 5 Clues to Putting Christ Back in Christmas {FREE Workshop}

Crafts & Gift Ideas

Finally, craft and gifts ideas are always good to have on hand. Grandparents and relatives love receiving gifts from family members that are keepsakes. Homemade ornaments, acts of service, and quality time together are perfect gifts to give.

• FREE Geography Christmas Ornament Craft
• FREE Homemade Christmas Ornament Crafts
• 60 Creative and Fun Christmas Ornaments Kids Can Make
• FREE Christmas Coupon Book
• Homemade Christmas Gifts with Mason Jars
• Acts of Service Advent Calendar for Christmas

Make It The Best Christmas Ever!

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