We have 100 holiday ideas!! There is no place like home for the holidays. Christmas carols, wrapping paper, crafts, a flickering fire, decorating the tree all bring cheer to the season especially when shared with friends and family.  Of course the kids love the time off from school and the adults typically get a few extra days to laze around.  What happens when you are out of things to do? Well, we have just the list for you.  Here are 100 holiday ideas of what to do with that spare time!

1. Attend a Christmas Parade
2. Go ice skating
3. Make homemade Christmas tree decorations – string popcorn or cranberries
4. Make reindeer for the tree using corks
5. Drink hot chocolate
6. Enjoy a good book by the fire
7. Go to a festival
8. Watch a Hallmark Christmas movie or A Charlie Brown Christmas
9. Try to find the Elf on the Shelf
10. Play Monopoly
11. Play cards – Go Fish is always a favorite
12. Color – yes like in a coloring book
13. Choose a tree from a Christmas tree farm
14. Bake sugar cookies
15. Buy sugar cookies from the store and decorate them
16. Send Christmas or New Year’s cards
17. Add some nog to the egg nog
18. Attend the Nutcracker ballet
19. Wrap presents and see how many bows you can reuse or make
20. Make your own wrapping paper with brown paper bags and paint
21. Handwrite a note to your grandparents or parents
22. Call your best friend from high school
23. Shop local
24. Visit a local coffee shop
25. Try a new recipe
26. Host a cookie swap
27. Volunteer at a shelter
28. Clean out a closet and take a box of clothes to Goodwill
29. Make cookies for Santa
30. Make reindeer food
31. Make snowflakes from construction paper
32. Enjoy a Home Alone marathon
33. Decorate the Christmas tree
34. Enjoy a bubble bath
35. Make Christmas tree pancakes
36. Decorate pancakes with icing
37. Take a walk
38. Go for a hike
39. Play frisbee
40. Build a snowman (ok, we know, it has to snow)
41. Take a online class
42. Mail a letter to Santa
43. Go Christmas Caroling
44. Attend a tree lighting ceremony
45. Pop popcorn over a fire
46. Volunteer
47. Make a wreath for your front door
48. Hang stockings
49. Attend a Christmas eve church service
50. Make a snow angel
51. Read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
52. Build a gingerbread house
53. Go thrift shopping for an ugly Christmas sweater
54. Send holiday cards to the military
55. Go to the movies
56. Surprise your neighbors with cookies
57. Make Christmas crafts
58. Write a letter to Santa
59. Track Santa via NORAD
60. Host game night
61. Get Chinese take out
62. Exchange one small gift
63. Drive the neighborhood and look at Christmas lights
64. Decorate a window
65. Make a Christmas tree out of everyday objects
66. Feed the birds
67. Feed the deer
68. Plan your spring garden
69. Go sledding or snow skiing
70. Drop off food at a food bank
71. Host an ugly sweater contest
72. Put a puzzle together
73. Clean out a drawer in the kitchen
74. Put a train together under the tree
75. Personalize everyone’s stockings
76. Create a hot chocolate buffet
77. Make an amazing charcuterie board
78. Create an advent calendar
79. Make a Christmas eve box
80. Host a craft party
81. Organize a scavenger hunt
82. Dress up the dogs
83. Dress up the cat
84. Tell some Christmas jokes
85. Make a festive Christmas bunch
86. Create festive aromas – hot apple cider with cinnamon or an orange pomander
87. Create festive drinks – alcoholic or non-alcoholic
88. Discover some fun Christmas apps
89. Make pine cone decorations for the home
90. Make peanut butter and bird seed pine cones for the birds
91. Hang some mistletoe and steal a kiss
92. Get the kids to help address or sign the holiday cards
93. Bake pies — mmmmmm
94. Get a mini Christmas tree for the kids to decorate their own
95. Learn a magic trick
96. Look at old photo albums
97. Arrange old photos
98. Make play dough
99. Make cute Santa strawberries
100. Visit an elderly neighbor

For more ideas, check out our Holiday Fun Around Atlanta post.