The Ultimate Winter Bucket List For Families – 100 Awesome Ideas
Inside: the ultimate holiday bucket list – 100 fun winter ideas for families
My twins looked out the window, mesmerized by the tiny pieces of white clouds falling down from the sky. Their little brother was watching, too. This was the first time in their conscious lives they saw snow. Living in the south, we do get cold weather, but it’s a real treat when there’s anything that remotely resembles snow.
It snowed twice more that winter season, which was more white goodness than we could ever ask for. We had just enough snow to make decent-looking snow angels and a small snowman with the whole family.
We didn’t have sleds or mittens, so we used laundry baskets and double socks on our hands to slide down the hill and play in the snow.
I love making memories with kids, and even though we don’t always get snow this time of year, we have a great time every year because there are so many more ideas for fun things to do in the winter months.
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No matter if you live in a warm climate or if you get snowed in often, these fun ideas will keep the family fun going all winter long.
100 Things to do With Your Family in the Winter
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- Bake a pie
- Go bowling
- Make s
’mores - Feed the birds
- Go snow tubing
- Make hot cocoa
- Roast chestnuts
- Have a tea party
- Enjoy a campfire
- Look at old photos
- Have a pajama day
- Get Elf on the Shelf
- Mail letters to Santa
- Cook dinner together
- Go see Disney on Ice
- Go to a hockey game
- Go to a winter festival
- Stay up past midnight
- Go Christmas caroling
- Play with instant snow
- Go see the Nutcracker
- Have a role-switch day
- Decorate for Christmas
- Get an advent calendar
- Have a “no screen” day
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Have an indoor Nerf war
- Host a Christmas dinner
- Take pictures with Santa
- Make a popcorn garland
- Make spiced apple cider
- Visit an indoor waterpark
- Have a silly dress-up day
- See a live Christmas play
- Have breakfast for dinner
- Go to a Holiday Craft Fair
- Watch a Christmas movie
- Wear Santa hats in public
- Cut out paper snowflakes
- Have a family reading day
- Have a “sleep-in” morning
- Build a gingerbread house
- Start a new family tradition
- Take a Christmas light tour
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- Camp out in the living room
- Build a blanket fort together
- Play a new fun holiday game
- Do a random act of kindness
- Make a Christmas countdown
- Host a cookie exchange party
- Do a family winter photoshoot
- Write a letter to your older self
- Learn to cook in an Instant Pot
- Attend a tree lighting ceremony
- Have story time by the fireplace
- Donate winter coats to a shelter
- Have a family board game night
- Make a DIY salt dough ornament
- Set family goals for the new year
- Send a care package to a soldier
- Buy groceries for a family in need
- Catch snowflakes with your tongue
- Make up your own Christmas Carol
- Have a picnic by the Christmas tree
- Fill an Operation Christmas Child box
- Pint family photos and make a collage
- Bake and decorate Christmas cookies
- Host an Ugly Christmas Sweater party
- Write handwritten letters to each other
- Feed someone’s expired parking meter
- Build a giant puzzle and glue it together
- Decorate your own Christmas stockings
- Buy Christmas gifts for someone in need
- Attend a midnight Christmas Eve Service
- Get a new book (or a few) to read together
- Support artisans by buying handmade gifts
- Decorate wrapped Christmas gifts together
- Make a pinecone wreath for your front door
- Blow bubbles outside and watch them freeze
- Go see the latest family movie at the theater
- Take a Christmas photo in matching pajamas
- Invite a family in need to have dinner with you
- Have a Home Alone movie-watching marathon
- Swim in hot springs or an outdoor heated pool
- Leave a nice surprise on a neighbor’s driveway
- Write thank-you notes to friends and loved ones
- Declutter closets and donate clothes to a charity
- Visit a tree farm and pick out your Christmas tree
- Learn to say “Merry Christmas” in another language
- Make or order holiday cards for friends and family
- Have a Christmas music dance party in the living room
- Make a photo album with pictures from the previous year
- Invite friends over and perform a Christmas play for them
- Have an indoor snowball fight using socks rolled into balls
- Bring Christmas cookies and candy canes to kids at the hospital
- Invite another family over and play charades against each other
- Bundle up and take an evening walk to look at neighborhood lights
- Paint your freshly snowed-in yard with water and food coloring in spray bottles
- Drive around your neighborhood to look at houses decorated with Christmas lights. Bonus points if you make a DIY “first place” certificate and tape it to the mailbox with the best lights.
What to do With this Winter Bucket List for Families
Use these ideas to create your family’s custom list and beat the winter blues. Make everyone a cup of hot chocolate and have each member of the family go through these winter bucket list ideas and pick a few of their favorites.
Then combine those favorites into a personalized list that will feel custom-made just for your family. All you have to do then is pick an activity from your family’s winter bucket list and have fun!
Check these fun activities off the list as you complete them, and see how many you can do in one winter. Turn it into your annual winter bucket list and do it again next year.
Make it even more fun by trying to beat last year’s score. Bonus points if you take pictures of your activities and make a yearly scrapbook with that year’s checklist. So fun!
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