Ways to use this list
- School holiday mornings: put the activities you have supplies for on the wheel and let a different child spin each day of the break.
- A countdown to the 25th: turn on Remove the winner and spin once a day from 1 December, so no activity comes up twice before Christmas.
- Office or club party: the For adults button includes a festive quiz, a biscuit swap and a jumper contest that all fit into a lunch hour.
- Mixed groups and classrooms: everything here is about winter, kindness and fun at home, so it suits families who celebrate in different ways.
- Festive game night: act out ideas from the charades ideas generator, or press Christmas on the drawing game words page.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (46 entries)
- Bake gingerbread
- Decorate the tree
- Make paper snowflakes
- Watch a festive film
- Write cards to friends
- Build a snowman
- Go ice skating
- Make a gingerbread house
- Have a hot chocolate night
- Sing festive songs
- Make paper chains
- Walk to see the Christmas lights
- Do a festive jigsaw
- Make a door wreath
- Have a pyjama film day
- Make Christmas crackers
- Make a snow globe in a jar
- Take a winter nature walk
- Make salt dough decorations
- Donate toys you have outgrown
- Play a festive quiz
- Have a Christmas jumper day
- Make pine cone bird feeders
- Read a winter story by torchlight
- Do a kindness countdown
- Print your own wrapping paper
- Have a board game evening
- Make a festive playlist and dance
- Decorate biscuits with icing
- Build a blanket fort
- Hold a family talent show
- Have an indoor picnic
- Write a winter poem
- Play festive charades
- Do a festive scavenger hunt
- Make handprint cards
- Visit a Christmas market
- Put on a family pantomime
- Volunteer at a food bank
- Host a biscuit swap
- Hold a festive jumper contest
- Try a new festive recipe
- Make a time capsule for next year
- Write a letter to your future self
- Make orange and clove pomanders
- Draw names for Secret Santa
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Questions people ask
What are fun Christmas activities for kids at home?
Paper snowflakes, salt dough decorations, a snow globe in a jar, a blanket fort with a winter story, and decorating biscuits. Press For kids for the set; most need paper, glue and a little flour.
What Christmas activities can adults enjoy?
A Christmas market, a biscuit swap with neighbours, a festive quiz, a wreath-making evening, or an afternoon volunteering at a food bank. They are sociable without needing a big night out.
Which Christmas activities are free?
Walking to see the lights, a winter nature walk, making paper chains, a family talent show, festive songs and a kindness countdown cost nothing. Press Free at home for those.
How do I make a kindness countdown?
Write one small kind act for each day of December on its own line, such as making a card for a neighbour, and put the list in the picker. Turn on Remove the winner and draw one each morning.