25 Fun Ways to Spend the Holidays

These are just a few ideas. I’m sure there are many ideas you can think of on your own. Make the gift specific to the individual. Put love and kindness into that gift, enough to last the whole New Year long.

1. Take a Cruise, to anywhere you like; and bring your whole family with you.
2. Have a “Dinner-go-Round,” where each course is served at a different person’s house, and gifts can be opened at each house.
3. Have a “Scavenger Hunt” and select a really good prize for the winner.
4. Decorate someone else’s house for the holidays.
5. Go do something wild; like white water rafting, or learning to sky dive.
6. Have a family picture taken with each family getting a copy of the portrait.
7. Spend the holidays in a different city than where you live.
8. Re-enact the Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving, with every one dress as Pilgrim or Native American.
9. Share your holiday meals with someone less fortunate than yourself.
10. Buy someone an airline ticket to come visit you this holiday.
11. Celebrate all the holidays that fall in the month of November and December. Talk about the holiday and what it means to those who celebrate it.
12. Have a “no gifts” holiday where you help at a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or hospital. Donate your money to a charity of your/their choice in someone else’s name.
13. Make a small Christmas tree for someone you know who doesn’t have one.
14. Have a count down party for the New Year’s arrival.
15. Have a Pot Luck Dinner where everyone brings a different dish, including desert and anything else they can think of. (Including paper plates so no one is stuck doing the dishes).
16. Take a train ride across the USA with your whole family. (You don’t have to share your cabin with them).
17. Rent an RV and travel around the country at your own pace.
18. Visit sick children in the hospital and spend time with them reading stories or just having fun; gifts optional.
19. Visit an old folk’s home and orchestrate a holiday sing-a-long.
20. Go to Disney World, or Land, whichever one you’re closest to.
21. Visit a different country for the holidays and share in their traditions.
22. Prepare a coupon book for each family member to cash in whenever they choose.
23. Give your employee’s, if you have any, an extra day or two off
24. Go to a concert, play, opera, or an art museum and get a membership for the whole next year.
25. Give an unsuspecting person a gift with no strings attached.