Christmas bucket list printable – 24 family ideas

24 cheap and simple things to do together this December, and a blank page for your family's own ideas. Type your family's name, print, and tick them off.

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Our Christmas bucket list

  • Bake and decorate Christmas cookies
  • Make a paper chain for the tree
  • Watch a Christmas movie in pajamas
  • Go for a walk to see the Christmas lights
  • Build a snowman (if it snows!)
  • Write letters to Santa
  • Make cards for Grandma and Grandpa
  • Sing carols together
  • Make hot chocolate with marshmallows
  • Read a Christmas book by the tree lights
  • Make a homemade gift for someone
  • Give away toys we no longer play with
  • Hang a feeder for the winter birds
  • Make an ornament for the tree
  • Decorate the tree together
  • Take a family photo in Santa hats
  • Have a board game night
  • Build a gingerbread house
  • Cut paper snowflakes for the windows
  • Have a Christmas picnic under the tree
  • Leave a kind note for a neighbor
  • Track Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve
  • Wear Christmas sweaters for a whole day
  • Put out cookies and milk for Santa

Our best memory:

Our Christmas bucket list

How to use the bucket list

Hang the list on the fridge on December 1 and tick off the ideas together, in any order, as the days go by. Nobody has to do all 24. The blank list is for your own ideas: let everyone in the family write in at least one.

How to print it

  1. Type your family's name at the top – or leave it empty and write it by hand.
  2. Print at 100% (not „Fit to page”) on A4 or Letter: two pages.
  3. Hang the list of ideas on the fridge or a door where everyone sees it.
  4. Let each person add one idea of their own to the blank list.
  5. Tick a box each time you do something, and write down your best memory at the end.

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