5 Holidays Activities for Family Members of All Ages
Hooray for the holidays! It’s the most wonderful time of year where families come together to celebrate the holiday season. We’ve listed five fun holiday activities for family members of all ages.
Christmas Cookies
Come together as a family to bake with love for the holidays. You all can bake gingerbread cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, shortbread cookies, and much more. You all will be able to decorate different cookies with sprinkles and create holiday shapes like snowmen, candy canes, and Christmas trees with cookie cutters. Just don’t forget to leave out some Christmas cookies and milk for Santa.
Watching a Christmas Movie
There are a ton of Christmas movies to watch together as a family. Grab some popcorn with hot chocolate and check out the list below:
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Home Alone
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
- Jack Frost
- Elf
- The Santa Clause
- The Santa Clause 2
- The Muppets Christmas Carol
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Polar Express
- A Christmas Carol
- And so much more!
Singing Christmas Carols
There are lots of Christmas carols to sing together as a family. Whether you sing at home or go door to door, check out the list below:
- Deck the Halls
- O Christmas Tree
- We Wish you a Merry Christmas
- Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
- Jingle Bells
- 12 Days of Christmas
- Silent Night
- Frosty the Snowman
- And so much more!
Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Nothing says fun and yum like building and decorating gingerbread houses. You can simply go to a grocery store and pick out all of the ingredients you need such as gingerbread cookies, graham crackers, marshmallows, gumdrops, M&M’s, Skittles, candy canes, chocolate Hershey kisses, sprinkles, peppermints, licorice, regular pretzels, chocolate covered pretzels, whip cream and much more. Once you get all of the ingredients together, gather the family around to make the gingerbread houses. You can even hold a contest on who has the best gingerbread house even though everyone is a winner, it’s all about having fun and spending quality time together as a family.
Holiday Lights Tour
Most neighborhoods are all lit up for the holidays with lights and decorations. As a family, you all can get in the car and drive around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights at different homes, parks, and businesses. If you all don’t feel like driving or being in the car, you can simply walk around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights and
decorations at different parks, homes, and businesses. People can be super creative, and it would be nice to spend some time together while picking out the most beautiful lights and Christmas decorations on people’s houses, on their roofs, and in their yards. You all can pick out your favorite and/or hold a contest between each other to see who had the best-lit property in the neighborhood.
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