“I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands.” – Buddy, Elf

 25 Days of Fun Christmas Activities For Kids! 🎄 

The holiday countdown is on with our 25 Christmas Activities To Do With Your Kids!  With just 25 days until Christmas, my kids are already brimming with excitement, we have been since Halloween! (Christmas glee is a real thing!) Our family wanted to make this year extra special by participating in Christmas activities every day leading up to Christmas! Major Christmas vibes are in the air! 🍬  

The kids and I have searched far and wide in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and The Hunter for The BEST Christmas Holiday Activities For Kids (Bricks 4 Kidz included of course!) to create an unforgettable experience.  Get ready to be inspired by our holiday activity list of Christmas joy. Grab a pen and jot down your favourites, to make your own list!  Let’s make this Christmas truly spectacular! 🎄

Day 1 – Singing a Christmas Karaoke or Carols 🎤

Change the channel on your television, it’s time to click into some Christmas karaoke. It doesn’t matter if you can’t sing, this is the season for kindness, so all get to join in the activities. Raise your voice!

Kids favourite karaoke songs include; Jingle Bell Rock, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, Feliz Navidad, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, All I Want For Christmas Is You, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! These songs will have the kids and family singing their hearts out.

Don’t underestimate the power of the karaoke machine to bring in Christmas Merriment. Sing King – YouTube has plenty of karaoke options including Christmas songs.

For caroling, here is a list of Christmas Carols running throughout Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and The Hunter.
Where to Enjoy 2023 Christmas Carols in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie & Hunter – Newy with Kids
Where to Enjoy 2023 Christmas Carols in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie & Hunter – Newy with Kids

Day 2 – Try Out Some Christmas Baking 🍪

Christmas is the ideal time to try out baking a new recipe. Fill your home with delicious aromas.  Let’s face it, the kiddies will want the sweet goodies but there are plenty of healthy sugar replacement options these days… if you don’t want the kids bouncing off the walls!

Try delicious recipes like; scrumptious chocolate chip cookies, warming Christmas puddings, spicy gingerbread, melting peppermint bark, rich brownies, sweet macarons, cinnamon, and Christmas rolls. Here are some recipe ideas to explore both the healthy and the sugary sweet! Baking is a favourite time-old Christmas activity. 🍰

Click on deserts in Healthy Recipes That Help Improve Your Health – Dr. Axe (draxe.com)
Christmas Cake – Healthy Kids (healthy-kids.com.au)
Indulgent Christmas Recipes To Make With Kids | 30+ Recipes – Bake Play Smile. 

Day 3 – Crafting All Things Christmas With Kids 🎨 

Try crafting with paint, pencils, paper, LEGO®️, pinecones, popsicle sticks, and mason jars!  Paper snowflakes are very simple to create and you can display them on your windows. Or stencil your windows!

Create Christmas trees out of popsicle sticks. Decorating them with green paint with glitter and a gold star to look great on top.  Painting Mason jars in Christmas style makes for a lovely lolly jar. Make an inexpensive homemade gift! 🎁

Express emotion with colour. Pretty Christmas artwork brightens the home! You can do so much with LEGO®️ too, why not build Santa, a Christmas tree, Ruldolph, or a bell!  Check out the ones we did earlier.

Try your hand at making Christmas cards to give to nanna, aunty, or a relative.  Not only are you having a fun Christmas activity with the kids you are creating a decorative Christmas scene that will create merriment all holiday long.  Crafting is a wonderful creative Christmas activity. Sending a letter to Santa is also a super exciting for the kids! Santa Mail – Australia Post (auspost.com.au)

Artsy websites with some Christmas craft and sensory play ideas:
Over 100 DIY Christmas Craft Ideas For All Ages – The Organised Housewife
25 Easy Christmas Crafts for All Ages – Crazy Little Projects

Day 4 – Trail Christmas Lights in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and The Hunter 🌟

Christmas lights are popping up everywhere, and the kids love it!  There are plenty of websites that showcase where you can find the best lights for your area.  Nothing worse than turning up to a street with nothing much happening on Chrissy Eve. Plan your annual Christmas lights outing to make sure it’s a light spectacular. For Christmas Lights in your area visit:

Christmas Lights in the Hunter
Christmas Lights in the Hunter | Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Hunter Vally Christmas Lights Map

Christmas Lights Trail & Map: Newcastle, Lake Macquarie
2023 Christmas Lights Trail & Map: Newcastle, Lake Macquarie & Hunter Valley – Newy with Kids

Christmas Lights in the Hunter Facebook Page has lots of up date information of what’s exciting light activity is happening.

Visiting Christmas light displays helps children to become culturally acquainted with traditions. It’s connecting with the community, sensory, inspirational, and oozes creativity making it a great family activity! 👨‍👩

Day 5 – Ice Skating Chrissy Style ⛸️ 🎄  

Wish you had snow at Christmas? Well, you can… in a modified way! Deck out your kids in a Christmas beanie and head to the Hunter Ice Skating Ring. For some of us, a white Christmas is merely a dream.  For my family, this wish makes it to the top of the list. Live out that white Christmas fantasy! 

Ice skating is a fantastic Christmas activity for kids. It creates a magical ambiance, skating to classical Christmas tunes. 🎶 It also promotes physical fitness which helps kids develop balance. Ice skating is a great opportunity to spend enjoyable time with family and friends. 👪

Here are public ice skating times for Hunter Ice Skating
Session Times (hiss.com.au)

Day 6 – Slurping Chrissy Festive Drinks 😋 

Dedicate an evening to making delicious festive drinks with the kids.  Sip on hot chocolate made special with marshmallows, cream and sprinkles or apple cider all warmed up with spices like cinnamon and cloves. Try non-alcoholic Eggnog (with a sprinkle of nutmeg). Have you tried gingerbread hot milk? Yummy.

There are so many special beverage options available. Be sure to include the extra fancy sprucing to make it feel extra special. The kids will enjoy sipping on their delish drinks with their parents. In raining weather adults might like to enjoy some mulled wine. In the Summer, try making all these invigorating Chrissy drinks iced!

Tasty Christmas drink recipes for you
60 Holly Jolly Christmas Drinks for Kids (confessionsofparenting.com)
Christmas Drinks for Kids – Fun Family Vibes

Day 7 – Connecting Through Family Puzzle Time 🧩

Puzzling is a great Christmas activity!  It might not be everyone’s cup of tea but it becomes everyone’s OBSESSION! When puzzling with younger children choosing a puzzle with fewer puzzle pieces will make it easier for them keeping them more engaged. It should be challenging enough to also keep the adults intrigued. A puzzle of around 500 pieces to 1000 pieces (older kids) is a good choice.

Christmas puzzles are plentiful online but if you want to pick one up the same day give Kmart or TK Maxx a try. TK Maxx has some cool Christmas puzzles this year (1000-piece Elf puzzle and winter wonderland puzzle) and fun games (National Lampoons bingo and card games) for the whole family.  Deck out your coffee table with puzzle pieces… yule adore it!

Christmas Jigsaw Puzzles – Puzzle Palace Australia – Buy Online

12More 25 Christmas Activities For The Kids in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and The Hunter Is Coming Next Week! 🎁

We hope you enjoyed our Christmas activity list for the first week of Christmas! We are planning activities now for next week and we will be sure to share some more ideas soon!

Join us on this frenzied Christmas activity adventure! What fun will you be having leading up to Christmas?! ✨

Build models of Santa and of his elf helpers direct from the North Pole! 🎅🏻🧝 

If you’re looking for a Holiday Activity for the Kids independent of mum and dad, why not enrol your child in for a Full Day of Christmas BRICK Fun!

Discover more here – Summer Holiday Workshops including Christmas Bricktacular Here