Make a gingerbread house

Sing Christmas carols together

Purge toys and donate them to a thrift store. (A great way to make room for new Christmas toys!)

Make and decorate Christmas cookies

Put together a Christmas music playlist

Make homemade ornaments for the tree

Stamp or paint your own wrapping paper

Put up the Christmas tree

Visit an old age home. Play games or sing them some of the carols you've learned.

Take boxes of your baked treats to the neighbours

Do some Christmas baking - eg White Christmas, rum balls, truffles, fruit mince tarts

Browse on Pinterest for Christmas craft ideas and make one together

Make your own Christmas crackers. Have fun filling them with homemade treats or novelty gifts.

Buy a present for an underprivileged child and donate it to the Wishing Tree

Throw a Christmas party for friends and have a Secret Santa gift exchange. For lots of laughs, play with White Elephant rules

Watch a Christmas movie as a family with hot chocolate and popcorn

Go on a Christmas lights tour

Read the Christmas story in the Bible

Purge old or outgrown clothes and donate them to charity.

Go to a Christmas parade

Have a Christmas dance party to songs like Jingle Bell Rock

Make paper snowflakes

Make a Christmas wreath

Make a life-sized cut-out of the kids, write messages on them and mail them in a tube to distant family who won't be with you for Christmas

Make Christmas cards

Do a Christmas family photo shoot

Light candles and sing Silent Night

Do a Christmas scavenger hunt in the car

Display the Christmas cards you receive

Have your picture taken with Santa

Wrap presents together

opportunity to order personalised photo gifts of the kids for the grandparents too!) well!)

Order a photo book of your favourite photos from the year. (Now's a great

Organise your children's school artworks, report cards, awards and school photos from the year using a school memory box system

Make a personalised bauble for each family member

Make peg angels for the tree

Write a letter to Santa

Make the Christmas pudding together

Plan your Christmas Day menu

Read a traditional Christmas story such as "A Christmas Carol"

Decorate a Christmas shirt with fabric paints

Make snow globes

Have a candy-cane hunt

Put up lights on the house

Make a nativity scene. You could use dolls, peg people, even Lego.

Go see a Christmas play or attend a carols service

Make "reindeer food" to sprinkle on the lawn. Rolled oats and red glitter is a good combination.

Make Christmassy hot chocolate - add peppermint, or a Chai spice mix

Take the kids shopping so they can use their pocket money to buy a small gift for their siblings

Make home made gifts for each other

Make a fairy light canvas

Make your own gift tags

Make sugared almonds or spiced nuts

Reflect on the year: what did you do well? What would you change next year?

Collect pine cones and spray paint them gold, silver or white

Make Christmas-scented candles: tie cinnamon sticks, rosemary sprigs and / or slices of dried orange around a candle with ribbon or twine

Have each family member write down their best memory of the year, and put them in a memory box.

Have a family memory show set up a slideshow of photos from the past year and run it through the TV or a projector. Talk about your best memories of 2015 together.

Write a list of everything you're grateful for