A Christmas Bucket List- 2024

You know what time of year it is! It is Christmastime. As I'm sure you know this is my favorite time of the year. I love everything about Christmas, the decorations, the emphasis on giving, the food, the smells, the movies, the music, the weather, and of course the focus on Jesus. 

But, unfortunately it can be very easy to miss out on the things that we want to do since the holiday season is also full of shopping, parties, work, midterms and finals. To avoid the chaos, as you probably also know by now, I make a bucket list. This years bucket list is designed to not only help me do the fun seasonal things I would like to do, but also helps me remember that this season is about how Jesus humbled himself by coming to the earth as a baby to ultimately save us.
    
My favorite kind of bucket list is a bingo bucket list, but check boxes, moodboards, or plain old lists work great too.

Bucket List Tips

I have a few tips to how to make the most of your bucket list. The first is no matter what style you choose, is to put it up somehwere where you’ll see it everyday. This makes you so much more likely to do the things on your list. 

Next, make the ideas attainable, things you can do any day you want or that take minimal planning.

​And finally, take pictures! These can be of the things on your bucket list or just things you do through the month. Taking pictures solidifies in my mind that something happened and it helps preserve memories.

My Bucket List

My bucket list turned out so cute! I just used Sharpie gel pens and alcohol markers. I decided to go darker (and more vintagey) with the red border and green bow. And the doodles are just that, doodles. I freehand them, but if you want it to look a certain way, you can follow tutorials. I am no artist, but I enjoy doing these small drawings because this bucket list is just for me (and I show you, but I know you won’t judge. Take this as a reminder to not judge yourself so hard on things that are just for fun!)

​Bucket List Ideas

Now onto the actual activities!

• Make fancy hot cocoa (this could be homemade, or just with lots of toppings.)
  
• Take cute pictures with your friends (this could be out in the snow, at church, by a Christmas tree, candids at a party, at a coffee shop, or while Christmas shopping. It’s just about taking a little time to create some pinteresty memories with your girls.)
  
• Buy a new winter hat or mittens
  
• Have a Christmas candlelit reading night (light candles, have a cup of your favorite festive drink, and cozy up with a Christmas book.)
  
• Buy or get out your Christmas PJ’s
  
• Make garlands (paper chains, orange, cranberry and popcorn)
  
• Make diy ornaments
  
• Go to a Christmas church service or Choir event
  
• Go on a drive looking for Christmas lights
  
• Dance in the kitchen to Ella Fitzgerald (this can be a solo activity or done with company.)
  
• Pick a bouquet of winter greenery and berries
  
• Write a Christmas short story or poem
  
• Do a Christmas devotional
  
• Do a festive Starbucks run
  
• Read at a coffee shop
  

• Bake cinnamon rolls
  
• Go to a Christmas craft fair or market
  
• Go ice skating or sledding or both
  
• Make a bracket of all the cheesy Christmas movies you watch this year
  
• Buy or make an advent calendar for yourself or someone else
  
• Catch snowflakes on your tongue (or alternately, dance in the snow)
  
• Decorate a gingerbread house
  
• Have a movie night themed around your favorite Christmas movie (mine is White Christmas)
  
• Have a night where you and your friends and family sing hymns by firelight
  
• Make Victorian Christmas cards (these get wild)
  
• Keep up with a Vlogmas series
  
• Romanticize wrapping Christmas gifts
  
• Buy Christmas Eve gifts for your family
  
• Make burr baskets for the people close to you
  
• Tie bows on everything (2024 is the year of the bow and we all know it.)
  
• Read and study Old Testament prophecy about Jesus
  
• Go to the library or bookstore and create a Christmas TBR
  
• Make a new-to-you holiday drink
  
• Send letters to people
  
• Watch or go see the Nutcracker
  
• Do a random act of kindness
  
• Have a slumber party near the Christmas tree
  

• Learn about Christmas traditions through history
  
• Learn about how Chrismtas is celebrated around the world
  
• Buy a bunch of interesting (or foreign) holiday snacks and make a dessert charcuterie board
  
• Drink tea by the fireplace
  
• Go skiing
  
• Make a gratitude list
  
• Binge Hallmark movies
  
• Take a walk while listening to classical Christmas music
  
• Make your ultimate Christmas playlist
  
• Bake Christmas cookies
  
• Make a day out of Christmas shopping.
  

So there are some ideas to get you started! What are some things you would like to do this Christmas? Let me know in the comments!!

Belle Thomas

Belle is the writer and dreamer behind An Old Fashioned Girl. She is passionate about reminding girls of their identity in Christ, classic books, history, Louisa May Alcott, and earl grey tea. ​​​​​