Christmas Activities for Kids: The much awaited Christmas weekend is less than a week away! Christmas is a cherished holiday celebrated globally. This festival is an event of joy, tradition, and togetherness. Celebrated each year on December 25th, it marks the birth of Jesus Christ, uniting people in festive spirit. Schools and homes are laden with twinkling lights and stars, festive décor, and the iconic green Christmas tree. People exchange gifts with warmth and generosity, sing Christmas carols, cook and enjoy delicious meals and desserts, spreading festive joy all around. Beyond religious significance, Christmas is a symbol of love, kindness, and the timeless joy of giving and receiving.
Christmas Activities for Kids
In this article, we have shared some fun, entertaining, easy yet engaging Christmas activities for kids.
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Activity 1: Christmas Cards
During Christmas festivities, one of the most obvious activities for kids to engage in is making lovely hand-made cards for their family, friends, siblings and other neighbours, relatives and teachers. Use crayons, pencil colours, stencils, stickers, some glitters, etc. to make the most festive Christmas card ever! Encourage your child to unleash their creativity in their cards and watch them create something magical.
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Activity 2: Christmas Tree Decoration
What is Christmas without a Christmas tree, right? Be it a giant conifer or a small piece of trimmed pine tree, decorate it with Christmas balls, lights, snow-like cotton balls, candy sticks, socks with more candies, and surround it with gifts for friends and family. Kids would love doing this!
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Activity 3: Custom Christmas T-shirts
What better way to celebrate than wearing the celebration, haha! This Christmas, encourage kids to take a plain white shirt and a bunch of acrylic colours with a paintbrush. All they have to do is draw Christmas-related figures, such as Santa, and Santa’s Cap. Santa’s reindeer, Christmas trees, snow, etc., on the t-shirt. You can even gift these custom t-shirts to your near and dear ones.
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Activity 4: Bake Cookies and Christmas Cake
Discuss and choose some cookie recipes and cakes. Explain to the kids about cooking or baking with parents or other siblings and adults at home. Spend your time measuring, mixing, and decorating the delicacies. Nothing tastes better than warm cookies and creamy cake on Christmas, especially when they are made by little angels!
Activity 5: Write a Letter
Christmas and New Year are fun and joyous times, spent with family and friends, looking back at the year gone by. This Christmas, write a letter of gratitude to your partner, parents, and friends and thank them for their contributions to your life. Also, ask your kids to do the same. Help them think of all the instances where people around them assist them. This will inculcate positive thinking and gratitude in the children.
Activity 6: Christmas Manger Decoration
Manger is a cattle pen or a space for domesticated cattles such as sheeps, cows, goats, etc. to eat and rest in. The birth of Jesus in manger symbolises the popular Christian belief that Jesus' love is the food for our soul.
Jesus Christ, whose birth is celebrated as Christmas, was born in a manger. In Bethlehem, when Mary and Joseph couldn't find a place to stay at any inn, they had to adjust in the harsh setting outdoors. Mary, while giving birth to Jesus, used a manger as a makeshift crib as the hay made it soft, the box lifted the baby off the ground, and the high sides kept him safe.
Children can not only have real fun decorating the Christmas crib using hay, miniature baby Jesus, cattles, shepherds and angels but they can also learn a lot about the festival and its significance.
Activity 7: Bible Reading
Gospel is a treasure of moral takeaways. There could be no better day to introduce kids to the Gospel than Christmas. Depending upon the age of the children, adults can decide what kind of lessons the kids should be getting and accordingly choose the parts.
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