75 Ideas to inspire you to try something new this Christmas. This list is filled with fun, holiday ideas for family fun at Christmas time! Find some new ideas to add to your yearly family Christmas traditions.

My favorite part of Christmas is all of the special traditions our family does each year. My fondest memories as a Child center around the Christmas season. Having a hard time finding that special tradition or two for your family?

Here is a list with 75 Family Christmas Traditions for you to choose from!

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