Christmas Bucket List Activity Jar – Let's Live and Learn

There is something about a new season that makes me so excited! I especially look forward to doing fun holiday activities with my family and am so excited to be able to include Henry in them this winter!

I love the ever so popular seasonal bucket lists that float around social media this time of year–but sometimes looking at those lists can seem a little overwhelming–which completely defeats the idea of a fun bucket list, right?! I wanted to make something similar that would encourage us to enjoy some festive activities, but didn’t seem daunting–so I created this holiday activity jar!

You can add as many or as few sticks as you would like and the best part is– the sticks are color coded! I used the green sticks to denote an activity that we would go do, the “white” sticks are activities that involve making something and the red sticks are easy, no prep activities! You don’t have to color coordinate, but if you do, it allows your little ones to still randomly choose an activity while being something that fits in that day’s schedule. If it is a busy weekday night you could have them grab a red stick, but if it is a weekend with nothing to do, you could have them choose a green stick and go on a holiday adventure!

Create a Christmas Bucket List Activity jar for your family! An easy DIY to encourage festive activities throughout the season with a free printable label!

Ideas for green sticks:

Go on a drive and look at Christmas lights
Visit Santa!
Go ice skating
Take Christmas cards to a nursing home
Volunteer at a food bank
Go sledding
Cut down your own Christmas tree
Make a snowman
Go Christmas shopping for a family member or friend
Go shopping for a toy to donate to a toy drive
Go caroling

Ideas for “white” sticks:

Make a gingerbread house
Decorate Christmas cookies
Make Christmas cards
Make hot chocolate
Make paper snowflakes
Make Christmas cookies for a neighbor
Make ornaments for your tree
Make a homemade gift

Ideas for red sticks:

Christmas song dance party
Sing Christmas songs
Watch a Christmas movie
Read Christmas books
Gather toys to donate
Write a letter to Santa
Make a fire
Wrap presents
Build a fort
Color a Christmas coloring book

To make your jar, simply write activities on the popsicle sticks, put them in a jar and tape your label to the jar!

I hope this inspires you to enjoy some festive activities with your family this holiday season! If you make a jar, I would love to see it– tag me on Instagram!

You can find your free printable labels by clicking on the image below.