Easy Activity Advent Calendar Ideas

If you are looking for some easy activities to add to your advent calendar, these will be easy to add in with little effort and lots of fun.

All of these activities are perfect for adding more connection and calm into a busy holiday. Finding ideas to fill your month does not have to be difficult. Check out the ideas below and download the free printable with more ideas at the end of the post.

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Cheap, free, and easy advent Ideas

We always sprinkle in many free, cheap or easy activities into the month for sanity(mine) sake. I think some of these are actually our favorites.

Give each other crazy hairstyles…then take a bubble bath to wash all the product out.

Sing Christmas Carols at dinner.  We have a few CD’s to pop in.  This one is a favorite.

Cook breakfast for dinner and then have a picnic by the tree.

Have hot cocoa and marshmallows.  Get out the special mugs. We have made it from scratch, but the instant kind works perfectly.

Make Christmas cards with stamps and don’t forget to decorate the envelopes. We cut shapes from carrots and potatoes and create some real keepsake cards.

Don’t forget yourself!! This year one of the activities is getting a baby sitter for a night –my kids LOVE this. And I love it too.  It means a night for my husband and I to go out to eat or get some Christmas shopping done together.

More Easy, Cheap or Free Advent activities:

• Have a family game night. ( We love Labyrinth, Monopoly, Payday, and Memory)
• Spend time working on a puzzle together.
• Create structures with gumdrops and toothpicks
• Eat a red and green dinner.
• Trim the tree and listen to Christmas music.
• Decorate cookies with friends.
• Go to a playground.
• Have a picnic dinner under the tree.
• Drive around to see the Christmas lights.
• Enjoy hot cocoa and marshmallows.
• Take a night hike around the neighborhood.
• Bring cookies to the neighbors.
• Make your own wrapping paper. We love to print with bubble wrap.
• Spend $5.00 on books at Goodwill.
• Do something nice for your brother.
• Decorate your room for the holidays.
• Make homemade sparkle playdoh.
• Go to the Library and check out holiday books
• Donate food to a Little Free Pantry

Download our printable of more Easy Cheap or Free Advent Activities here