Category: Advent Activities

Write a note to someone you won’t see this Christmas and mail it to her or him. Emails and mass Christmas cards do not count.

Have a hot chocolate and game night tonight… heat up a few cups, add marshmallows and stir with a candy cane. Give your games a Christmas twist: Christmas Pictionary, Scrabble with only Christmas words, charades, or yelling “Happy Birthday Jesus” instead of Uno.

Pray for your immediate family… as a group and as individuals. To help you focus and be in the moment, write down your prayers as you pray them.

Pray for your children’s teachers and school administration. If you don’t have children, think of a teacher who really impacted you and pray for him or her. Then pray for one you didn’t like very much.

Go tele-caroling: Call a relative or two and sing a Christmas carol right when they answer. (Or enlist your children to do it for you/ with you.)