Holiday Fun for Less
The holidays can be hectic, but they also present a multitude of opportunities for fun family togetherness. Check out some of these low or no cost ideas to make the holidays meaningful for you and your family:
- Tour the neighborhood to take in the Christmas lights
- Go ice-skating
- Take your kids to a coffee house for a hot chocolate treat
- Make fleece tie blankets for a local unit of Project Linus
- Feed the birds
- Go sledding
- Donate goods to a homeless shelter or a shelter for victims of domestic violence
- Host a neighborhood open house or potluck party
- Carol at a nursing home
- Use graham crackers and candy to make gingerbread houses
- Make and deliver cookies to shut-ins, fire houses, or other community establishments
- Help with a food drive
- Make homemade gifts and ornaments, either for yourself or for others
- Write letters or send postcards to far-flung family members
- Donate hats, gloves, or gently-used coats to the needy
- Take your family to a local park for a Christmas-themed photo shoot
- Have a holiday movie marathon
- Visit a living nativity
- Spend an afternoon helping with the animals at an animal shelter
- Donate to Toys for Tots or Shriners’ Hospitals
- Visit Santa
- Watch a holiday parade
- Visit a Christmas tree farm
- Organize a few families to host a progressive dinner
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