The Old Bohemian Homestead Christmas Plan
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This week in the Old Bohemian Christmas Plan, we’ll decide on our Christmas activities and gatherings.
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Decide on Christmas Activities and Gatherings
Ever feel like the holiday season flew right by before you could catch it? I know I have. Planning your Christmas activities and gatherings now can make all the difference in preventing a runaway Christmas.
By thinking ahead, you’ll have an answer to give when family members ask your plans. Too often, when you have to coordinate schedules, decisions get left up in the air until too late to plan them well and without stress. Don’t let this happen to you! In my own life, I’ve learned that planning Christmas activities and gatherings in advance means that relatives who don’t do this will often fit their plans around my schedule. If you have relatives you want to see at Christmas who leave you hanging until the last minute, this may help you too.
Leave a little flex in your schedule so you can give a little, though, and be careful about packing too much into one brief Christmas season. Make more out of less.
Organizing around the theme you chose last week helps you narrow the possibilities. If you want an old world Christmas, for example, you might schedule a horse-drawn sleigh ride but skip the lights extravaganza. If it’s a country Christmas for you, missing the Dickens fair in favor of cutting your own tree in a National Forest might be in order. Refer to your notes from last week, when you interviewed your family about what they wanted Christmas to be like this year. If you missed that step, just do it now.
50 Ideas for Christmas Activities and Gatherings
- Cut your own tree in the forest or in a Christmas tree lot.
- Observe an advent calendar, with small gifts or candies each day.
- Make an advent wreath and light it every Sunday, following Thanksgiving, on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas Day.
- Go Christmas caroling with friends. Follow with hot chocolate or toddies by the fire.
- Make a gingerbread house.
- Go Black Friday shopping.
- Make a Christmas wreath.
- Throw an old-fashioned wassailing party.
- Take a walk to see Christmas lights.
- Go on a drive to see Christmas lights.
- Watch a Christmas Play.
- Attend a singing Christmas tree event.
- Go to a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
- Take in a Christmas concert.
- Plan a family night to pop popcorn and watch your favorite Christmas movies.
- Give blankets to the homeless.
- Ride a Christmas train.
- Take pictures with Santa.
- Host a neighborhood Christmas party.
- Make Christmas cookies.
- Go to a Christmas sing-along.
- Listen to a bell choir playing Christmas melodies.
- Attend Christmas church services.
- Volunteer to sing in a Christmas choir.
- Make Christmas candy.
- Go on a horse-drawn carriage ride.
- Help in a community outreach to provide meals to the needy.
- Participate in a holiday giving tree and provide presents to those who can’t afford them.
- Hang an impressive display of Christmas lights and host a house lighting party.
- Go on a wagon ride.
- Throw a Christmas tree trimming ceremony.
- Celebrate all the feasts of Christmas.
- Observe the 12 Days of Christmas.
- Host a holiday potluck.
- Go on a sleigh ride.
- Act in a Christmas play.
- Take Christmas treats to your neighbors.
- Host Christmas Eve dinner.
- Host Christmas dinner.
- Participate in a cookie exchange.
- Hold a Christmas stocking gift exchange.
- Read Christmas books to your children and yourself.
- Go to The Nutcracker.
- See a Christmas nativity.
- Make a snowman.
- Go ice skating.
- Replace a traditional meal with a finger food party party.
- Throw a family-oriented New Year’s party.
- Take a Christmas vacation.
- Take a New Year’s vacation.
Prepare for Christmas
- Working with a calendar, finalize or at least rough in this year’s Christmas activities and gatherings.
- Start your Christmas planning binder. You’ll soon receive free printable worksheets and an Old Bohemian Christmas Plan calendar to help you organize.
- Make any needed reservations.
- Purchase tickets in advance.
- Pick up Christmas party invitations.
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