Easy Christmas Activities to Do With a Preschooler

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December is here, which means Buddy and I have started our advent activity chain. I spend some time in late November deciding on some activities to do with Buddy every day. Some are complicated, such as making a gingerbread house, and some are much more simple. (You can read more about this activity and get a list of ideas here.) I want to focus on the easiest ones to do here, as well as some slightly more complicated ones that are our favorites. I’m sure that I’m not the only parent who wants to do special holiday activities, but doesn’t have a ton of time to prepare them. These are all activities we’ve done and loved, or are ones on our to do list this year.

Make Christmas cards
Play with jingle bells – I saw this post from And Next Comes L’s blog, where they play with magna-tiles and jingle bells, and I can’t wait to try it!
Practice using scissors with a Christmas cutting box
Have a Christmas dance party
Decorate a play doh Christmas tree
Learn Jingle Bells and make a video to share
Make salt dough ornaments
Make cinnamon applesauce ornaments
Play a Christmas game – Some ones I’m considering for this year are Jingle Bell Toss from Playground Parkbench and the Santa Hat Stacking Game from Lalymom.
Make a Christmas painting
Build a fort and read Christmas stories
Throw indoor snowballs
Play with cotton ball “snow”
Create a Christmas scene with stickers
Color a Christmas picture
Practice fine motor skills and decorate a tree with playdoh or pom poms – There is a great, free printable on You Clever Monkey’s blog.
Go to the library and check out Christmas books
Walk down the street and look at Christmas lights
Play outside in the snow followed by a cup of hot cocoa
Decorate a gingerbread house – this last one isn’t very easy, but it’s one of my favorite things to do this time of year, so I had to include it! (Wilton has preassembled gingerbread house kits (affiliate link) that do make the process much easier!)