25 free things to do at Christmas

Unfortunately the cost of living crisis isn't going away this Christmas. In fact, millions of families are having to change the way they do Xmas. I have created a 25 day advent of free things to do which still embraces the festivities but doesn't leave you in mountains of debt!

Throughout December, I will be documenting each activity over on my TikTok.  Plus, I am also doing VLOGMAS over there! So you can see what we get up to daily!

Things to do this Christmas that are free!

Think about Christmas as a Chlid. What were your happiest memories? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the panto's, discos, winter wondland, grotto visits etc... But something I enjoyed just as much (if not more) was snuggling up with my family with a box of Xmas choccies and watching all our favourite festive films. Lets not forget, it was only two years ago all we wanted was to be together for Christmas. So lets not get swept up into the consumer Christmas, buy second hand, make gifts, do free activities... Christmas isn't about how much money you can spend. 

Making a 'free things to do' advent

I went to an event recently, and I was inundated with a whole range of different advent calendars; toys, make up, books... even sex toys! What ever happened to a 99p cheap chocolate advent calendar? So it inspired me to make my own! I bought a few mini chocolates and some labels and came up with 25 free things to do this Christmas. Of course, if you don't want to commitment you dont have to turn these ideas into an advent calendar... but lots of the ideas are pretty low maintenance and can be swapped around to suit you.  `

25 free things to do this Christmas

• Put your Christmas decorations up!
• Go on a walk to collect pine cones 
• Decorate pine cones like Christmas trees
• Write and send a letter to Santa
• Clear out & donate all the unused toys in your house ready for Father Christmas to come
• Christmas PJ's and movie marathon
• Make homemade Xmas cards
• Bake and decorate ginger bread men
• Christmas jumper day (8th of December)
• Make salt dough decorations for the tree
• Go to your local garden centre & look at their light displays
• Print some Xmas colouring sheets
• Visit the library and read Xmas books 
• Bake reindeer brownies
• Have a movie themed dinner and movie night
• Walk around the neighbourhood to see the Xmas lights
• Make paper snowflakes
• Make reindeer food
• Make Christmas trees out of ice cream cones
• Make paperchains
• Build an Xmas fort & snuggle up & eat chocolate coins
• Wrap presents!
• Bake Xmas cookies 
• Have a home Xmas disco
• Go to an Xmas eve church service 

But nothing is completely free...

Very true... it is very hard to find 26 activities that are completely free. However, everything on the list are super low maintenance and only require things you probably already have in your cupboards.