Winter Bucket List for Families

With this Winter Bucket List for Families, you will have 73 ideas for fun activities for the season. Includes links to help you plan.

Winter gives us so many ways to build new memories with our family. We can enjoy things we have done year after year too! Here is a Winter Bucket List for Families with 73 fun ideas to try!

I split the ideas into two lists; Free or mostly free activities and those that may or probably have a cost. Sometimes it may just be helpful to be able to easily see one list or the other.

Some of these activities are to do in the crisp, cold winter air or in the snow! Others are to do inside where it is warm and toasty! Some activities have to do with certain holidays and some don’t.

There are so many ideas here that it would be easy to get overwhelmed. Don’t let that happen! You don’t have to do them all! And remember, these are meant to do over three months’ time!

–Or some this year and some next-and some the next!

What is your favorite winter family activity? Did I list it here? If I missed it, please drop me a note in the comments and I will be sure to add it to the list!

I also have a Fall Bucket List for Families and Spring Bucket List for Families and will have a Summer list when it is time so stay tuned!

Follow my Winter Fun Pinterest Board for dozens of ideas from all around the web! I am constantly finding new things to add so there will be new things all the time! There are even more ideas there!

Free or Mostly Free Activities

Write a letter to Santa. See How to Write a Letter to Santa Claus” and get free Christmas printables.

Have a sleepover in front of the Christmas tree.

Sing Christmas Carols.

Go out to look at Christmas lights. Make it even more fun with a Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt.

Read the Christmas story. Read it in Luke 2:1-20 and/or Matthew 1:18-2:12.

Watch a Christmas movie. Here are 25 Days of Christmas Movies with Free Printable List. Their ratings are also included.

Send someone a Christmas card.

Play Christmas BINGO.

Visit Santa.

Take family photos.

Donate old towels and blankets to an animal shelter.

Make up a Christmas song or poem.

Do a Christmas puzzle.

Read a Christmas-y book. Here are 20 Must Read Christmas Books for Kids.

Make a Christmas Countdown Board. Here are 20 DIY Christmas Countdown Calendars.

Start a journal.

Make a Christmas Countdown Chain.

String popcorn garland for a tree.

Make friendship bracelets.

Make your own wrapping paper. Here are 10 Easy DIY Holiday Wrapping Paper Ideas your kids can help with.

Have a snowball fight.

Make snow angels.

Take pictures in the snow.

Cut snowflakes out of white paper and hang them from the ceilings. Here is a 4 minutes YouTube video to show. How to make Paper Snowflakes.

Build a blanket fort.

Read a winter book.

Spend a whole day in your favorite pj’s.

Write a family letter or email.

Listen to a new book on tape. (You don’t have to buy one; check out the library!)

Make New Year’s resolutions.

Eat Black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day.

Play a board game.

Make snow ice cream.

Make homemade Valentines.

Make a home movie.

Build a snowman.

Shovel snow.

Go caroling.

Watch a sunset.

Paint some snow.

Collect pine cones.

See if the groundhog sees his shadow. Follow along with Punxsutawney Phil at Groundhog.org. There is a countdown to when he will look for his shadow, a link to follow him on Instagram and much more information. You can find the Legend and Lore and History and Past Predictions all the way back to 1887!

Take a warm bubble bath.

Skype or Facetime with cousins or old friends.

Drink hot cocoa.

Learn something about snow you didn’t know. This Snow Unit Study will help.

May or Probably have a Cost

Go ice skating.

Make a hot chocolate bomb.

Go sledding.

Make personalized mugs.

Feed the birds. Here are 10 Easy Birdfeeders Kids Can Make.

Do a puzzle with a winter scene.

Make a new soup recipe. Here are 82 Homemade Soup Recipes.

Bake some bread.

Bake some cookies. Here are 60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes and there are links to collections for Low Carb, Gluten Free and Vegan Cookies in that post too!

Make pomanders from cloves and oranges. Here is How to Make Pomander Balls.

Go bowling.

Make a Christmas Craft. Here are 100 Christmas Crafts for Kids.

Make a Snow Globe. Here are 10 Snow Globes Kids Can Make.

Make gingerbread houses.

Bake treats for a friend or neighbor. Here are Almost 100 Christmas Desserts Kids can Make.

Decorate Christmas cookies. Here are 60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes.

Donate to a food pantry.

Buy and donate a toy to a child in need (toy drive).

Make a Christmas tree ornament. Here are 35 Christmas Ornaments Kids Can Make.

Make reindeer food. Here is a Wildlife and Bird Friendly Reindeer Food recipe with free labels.

Go on a sleigh ride.

Drink eggnog. Here is a recipe for Homemade Eggnog.

Be a secret Santa to someone.

Wear matching PJs with the family (or matching socks if money is tight).

Do a random act of kindness.

Hang some mistletoe.

Here is a printable Winter Bucket List for Families. It includes the list but you will still have to come here to the post to use any links.

How many did you do?
What was your favorite?

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