Christmas Activities and Holiday Cheer!

This year, we could all use a little extra holiday spirit and in an effort to help keep us sane while stuck indoors, I've put together a list of Christmas activities, movies, and books your whole family can enjoy together. I will keep this list updated as more ideas come in!

Christmas activities

Unwrap a book a day

Windows at the grand America hotel

Take donations to the food bank

Bird seed ornaments

DIY ornaments or paint ornaments

Polar express party (print tickets!) or grinch party (green treats and sprite floats with lime ice cream)

Grinch house in Magna-they have a Whoville setup and you listen to the story on the radio and they give you candy canes!

Christmas in color

Baking/decorating cookies

Gingerbread houses

Build a snowman or snow castle

Snow paint(DIY off Pinterest)

Snowflake cutouts

Letters to Santa

Hot chocolate and drive around to see the city lights

Polar express

Ogden Christmas village

Festival of trees

Zoo lights

Candy cane hunt (hide candy canes throughout the house!)

Stocking decorating

Sledding

Zoom call family members you can't see this year and sing a Christmas carol

Make your own snow globe

Watch last years Disney Christmas Day Parade

Cross E Ranch

There are tons of free printables and DIY ideas on Pinterest such as making a Christmas tree out of ice cream cones, frosting, licorice and m&ms,

Christmas peppermint play dough, cinnamon ornaments, salt dough ornaments snow paint, finger paint Christmas tree craft, ETC!

Christmas Movies

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Mickey's Once/Twice Upon a Christmas

Mickey's Magical Christmas

Mickey's Christmas Carol

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Bad Santa

Home Alone

It's a Wonderful Life

Nativity

A Christmas Story

Santa Claus the Movie

Scrooged

Die Hard

Miracle on 34th Street

Love Actually

The Holiday

The Shop ARound the corner

While you were Sleepiong

The Grinch (cartoon + live!)

Christmas Vacation

The Night Before

Frosty The Snowman

The Santa Claus

Polar Express

Rudolph

Charlie Brown Christmas

Christmas Carol

A Very HArold + Kumar Christmas

Elliot

Jack Frost

The Star

Trolls Holiday

Jingle All the Way

Frozen (2 and shorts on Disney +)

The Magic Snowflake Arthur Christmas

Christmas

The Christmas Dragon

Santa PAws

Saving Santa

I'll be Home for Christmas

Noelle

Christmas Chronicles

Klaus

Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas

Christmas Books

Christmas Oranges

Dinosaur Christmas

Santa's Sleigh on it's way to Utah! How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Rudolph

Frosty the Snowman

Home Alone

A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs

Olivia Helps with Christmas

Snowglobe Wishes

The Little Reindeer

Little Blue Trucks Christmas

I am Max (grinch sequel)

That's not my Snowman

Silent Night

The Nutcracker

The Tree that's meant to be

The Reindeer Express

How Winston Delivered Christmas

Little Robin's Christmas

Pick a Pine Tree

Christmas Wish

You're my little Christmas Wish

Nativity (Usborne Flap book)

A Christmas Carol

The Night Before Christmas (classic edition)

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree

Bear Stays Up For Christmas

Red & LuLu

Christmas Farm

The Little Match Girl

The Little Drummer Boy

The Christmas Boot

Great Joy

The Christmas Magic

A Houseful of Christmas

A Homemade Together Christmas

Christmas Cookies-Bite Size Holiday Lessons

Christmas Day in the Morning

The Last Christmas Tree

Santa Clauses-Short poems from the North Pole

The 12 Days of Christmas

The Christmas Crocodile

Morris's disappearing bag

Rudy's Windy Christmas

Santa Claus, the World's Number One Toy Expert

Laugh-out-Loud Christmas Jokes for Kids

Winter Candle

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Walk this World at Christmas Time

My First Kwanzaa

A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World

The Story of Hanukkah