100 Christmas Bucket List Ideas
According to the dictionary, a bucket list is “a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish over a lifetime.” Most people have made a bucket list without even realizing it. Every time you say “I want to try that” or “I would like to go there someday,” you’re basically just adding something new to your bucket list!
But have you ever made a bucket list just for Christmas? I happen to make one every year, but I’m rarely able to mark all of my goals off by the end of the season. One of the great things about a bucket list though, is that your goals can stay on it as long as you want!
My bucket list for this Christmas season includes:
- Go to Dollywood
- Have a Christmas Scavenger Hunt
- Take Ugly Sweater Photos
- Have a sing-along
- Christmas lights
- Read the Nativity Story
- Attend a Church play or local event
Just in case you need new ideas for your own Christmas Bucket List, I’ve written down 100 of them! And included a “fill in the blank” bucket list printable too!
100 Christmas Bucket List Ideas
100 Ideas For Your Christmas Bucket List
- Have a Christmas movie marathon
- Perform Random Acts of Kindness
- Write letters to Santa
- Send Christmas Cards
- Be a Secret Santa
- Spend extra time with people you love
- Put decorations in every room
- Sit by the fire and drink hot cider
- Go to a Christmas concert
- Buy local—shop from small businesses/independent artists
- Listen to Christmas music every day
- Make an Advent Calendar
- Deliver treats to local police and fire departments
- Have a Christmas Treat or Sock exchange party
- Go ice skating
- Take a drive to look at Christmas lights
- Have a Christmas Scavenger Hunt
- Host an Ugly Sweater Party
- Read the Nativity Story
- Go caroling
- Make your own ornaments
- Build a gingerbread house
- Play in the snow
- Decorate the tree together
- Send cards or treats to people in the military
- Attend a Christmas play
- Open your home to people you know who can’t make a trip to be with family
- Make a Christmas snow globe
- Go sledding
- Read Christmas books
- Try a new recipe for your next Christmas gathering
- Make Blessings bags and give them to anyone who looks like they could use a blessing
- Donate gently used clothes and toys to a shelter or other charity
- Call someone just to chat
- Write letters to people and pretend it’s from Santa
- Hug somebody
- Hand out candy canes to random people
- Visit a Christmas tree farm
- Do volunteer work
- Feed a reindeer
- Ride in a one-horse open sleigh
- Have a snowball fight
- Make paper snowflakes
- Visit a historical site for a candlelight Christmas tour
- Adopt a child or family to give gifts to
- Have a Fondue Night with friends
- Build a blanket fort
- Wear a Santa hat for a whole day
- Make homemade hot chocolate
- Have a Happy Birthday Jesus party
- Buy new pajamas for Christmas Eve
- Take the time to have a date with your significant other
- Start a new tradition
- Take treats to your co-workers
- Make sausage balls
- String popcorn or cranberries
- Have a gift wrapping “party”
- Participate in a monthly photo challenge on social media
- Have a carpet picnic beside the tree
- Read “The Night Before Christmas”
- Make your own wish list
- Make your own Ugly Christmas Sweater
- Visit a live Nativity
- Have your picture taken with Santa Claus
- Make “magic” reindeer food
- Arrange an indoor treasure hunt
- Hang lights and decorate outside
- Make a pan of fudge and share it with someone
- Drink some eggnog
- Have a Christmas carol Karaoke night
- Make homemade potpourri
- Research how other countries celebrate Christmas
- Make snow cream
- Build a snow fort
- Have a family game night in matching pajamas
- Decorate cookies
- Have a White Elephant party
- Take an overnight trip for fun or romance
- Wear Christmas-themed clothes
- Attend a tree lighting ceremony
- Make homemade gift tags
- Write your own Hallmark Christmas movie
- Donate a new toy to charity
- Have a Grinch dinner with “Roast Beast” and “Who Pudding”
- Attend a Christmas parade
- Call the North Pole
- Make snow angels
- Hang some mistletoe
- Wear a Rudolph nose
- Host a Christmas craft party
- Donate to a coat drive
- Catch snowflakes on your tongue
- Make peppermint bark
- Hike in the woods
- Go a whole day without electronics
- Make frozen bubbles
- Soak in an outdoor hot tub
- Visit a place that is part of your childhood memories…Share it with others
- Cook a pot of Cassoulet
- Make a bucket list
How many things will you be putting on your Christmas Bucket List this year?!?
