Free Christmas Bucket List Printables

Are you creating a Christmas Bucket List with the kids or even for yourself this year? Consider all the fun you can have this season and grab our free Christmas bucket list printables.

collection of Christmas bucket lists with decor and activities.

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Ready to have a fun Christmas with the family this holiday season? Remember it doesn’t just happen. You might need to make a Christmas bucket list.

Oh yes, spontanaeity is a good thing, but when you’ve got a lot going on with school, extracurriculars, work, and household responsibilites, you need to plan and prioritize your holiday activities. You really can’t do it all.

I’ve learned that it’s always good to include the kids and my husband in the Christmas planning.

After all, Mom is not a mind-reader. How will you know…

what Christmas movies the kids want to watch?
where they want to get the Christmas tree this year?
which kind of gingerbread house they want to decorate?
if anyone wants to help with the Christmas cards?
what everyone wants to do for Christmas Eve?
if everyone still enjoys looking at Christmas lights?
what Christmas carols to sing?
which Christmas books to read?
which Christmas cookies are the favorites?

You’re more likely to choose the fun Christmas activities everyone enjoys and get more buy-in even when they don’t, if you include your family in planning. This is easy to do when you create Christmas bucket lists together!

christmas fun worksheet with a list in the shape of a christmas tree.

What’s a Christmas Bucket List?

While the term bucket list started over two decades ago in a Jack Nicholson movie, the modern idea is simply a list of goals or fun experiences to achieve. (You can find our tips on making a Summer Bucket List and a Fall Bucket List when those seasons roll around.)

A Christmas bucket list is simply to list ideas of things you want to do this Christmas season.

Anyone can make a bucket list, but I find that to maximize my time with my kids each December, it helps that everyone creates one and then we compile them in a master list.

cranberry christmas book standing up on table with cranberry cookies on platter with mug and tea pot.

Christmas Bucket List Ideas

There is no end to the family Christmas activities you can add to your list. Pinterest is jam-packed with ideas.

Here’s our short list to get you started, but don’t forget our list of ways to bless others during the Christmas season. It includes loads of not-so random acts of kindness.

Choose or create advent calendars.
Decide on an advent devotional to read through.
Decorate your home for Christmas.
String popcorn and cranberries for a fun decoration.
Host a cookie decorating party. We love to make the Jesus nativity cookies!
Serve a special candlelight dinner for the family if you don’t already do Sunday dinner.
Decorate gingerbread houses.
Decorate the tree. If it’s fresh, don’t forget the ice cubes!
Do a Christmas puzzle together.
Visit a Christmas market.
Go light looking.
Sing Christmas carols in your neighborhood or a local retirement home.
Make a Christmas playlist of your favorite Christmas music.
Bake cookies and make Christmas fudge to give as gifts.
Host a game night for friends.
Watch Christmas movies.
Attend a tree lighting ceremony.
Make hot chocolate or peppermint milk.
Go on a nature walk.
Make and sign Christmas cards.
Make Christmas ornaments.
Buy gifts for a family in need.
Take a meal to an elderly friend or neighbor.
Read Christmas stories together.
Go ice skating.
Build a snowman. Have an indoor snowball fight if there’s no snow.
Make caramel apples.
Make gifts to give to friends and neighbors.
Make paper snowflakes.
Donate food to a local pantry.
Make citrus pomanders.
Create S’mores Kits to share with others.
Play a favorite board game.
Create Jesse Tree ornaments.
Fill a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child.
Make a Buche de Noel Cake.
Make Gingerbread People Paper Dolls.
Let the kids decorate wrapping paper.
Make ornaments from toys!
Craft Christmas place cards.