Here are 75 fun holiday tradition ideas!

1. Have a cookie exchange
2. Make gingerbread houses
3. Watch a Christmas movie as a family
4. Memorize and recite the Christmas story from Luke 2
5. Drive around looking at Christmas lights
6. Make baked goods for your neighbors
7. Visit a nursing home and sing Christmas carols
8. Have a kids Christmas party
9. Decorate your house together (inside and out)
10. Read a classic Christmas story like “A Christmas Carol”
11. Give a secret gift to someone in need
12. Make a special meal together
13. Go to a candlelight service on Christmas Eve
14. Cook up the same old family recipe ever Christmas Eve
15. Christmas caroling for shut-ins from your Church or community
16. Plan a cookie baking party
17. Go to a farm and cut your own Christmas tree
18. Decorate your tree while drinking eggnog and eating a special snack
19. Buy a new ornament for each child relating to a life event that year
20. Make a family keepsake craft or project
21. Allow the children to arrange the family Nativity scene
22. By an Advent devotional book to read throughout the season
23. Write a Christmas letter with family news from the year
24. Read the Christmas story… and the resurrection story
25. Participate in Operation Christmas Child
26. Contribute to the Knit Together In Love scarf project
27. Deliver cookies and treats to emergency service men and women
28. Give your pastor(s) a thank you and Christmas gift
29. Sing in a church or community Christmas choir
30. Open one gift on Christmas Eve
31. Buy or make new Pjs for Christmas morning
32. Have a special Christmas brunch
33. Skype loved ones who live far away
34. Decorate your tree the weekend after Thanksgiving
35. Choose an old Christmas recording (Bing Crosby, etc.) to start the season with
36. Play Christmas music in the house all season long
37. Listen to a Christmas radio station in the car
38. Do a Christmas countdown calendar
39. Take family photos
40. Video Christmas morning
41. Watch old home videos
42. Have a race to see who can get their Christmas shopping done first
43. Read about Christmas traditions in other countries
44. Find and read a book of Christmas legends
45. Let children circle gift ideas in store catalogs
46. Make and share a yearly Christmas list
47. Let kids draw names to decide who to buy a gift for
48. Give children “jobs” around the house to earn money to buy gifts
49. Sponsor a Child or special project from Allow the Children
50. Buy each child a fun new pare of sock or slippers for Christmas morning
51. Make ornaments for the tree
52. String a garland out of popcorn and cranberries
53. Make your own Christmas cards as a family
54. Make gift baskets with goodies for friends and family
55. Let the young kids do their Christmas shopping at the Dollar Store
56. Donate clothes or food to a shelter
57. Hide a gift or make a scavenger hunt for the kids on Christmas Eve
58. Host a wrapping party
59. Go see a live nativity
60. Go to a Christmas play or concert
61. Have kids act out the Christmas story
62. Have a game night with hot chocolate and cookies
63. Invite someone without family to Christmas dinner
64. Tell stories or have grandparents tell stories about past Christmases as a child
65. Campout in the family room with sleeping bags after you’ve decorated the tree
66. Memorize a Christmas poem or write your own
67. Construct a manger out of wood and place it under the tree
68. Make birthday card for Jesus
69. Make a birthday cake for Jesus
70. Have a birthday party for Jesus with the neighborhood kids
71. Look at old Christmas photo albums
72. Make Christmas treats for pets, wrap and place under the tree
73. Buy a mini tree at the dollar store for each child’s bedroom
74. Decorate a tree or house for an elderly person (after Christmas go back and help put the decorations away)
75. Secretly give gifts for the 12 Days of Christmas to a neighbor