Holiday > 20+ Holiday Traditions

Bring your family together for fun holiday traditions you can include at any point during the holiday season. Regardless of your family's interests and values, there is something for everyone here!

Discover these ideas for over 20 holiday traditions, and begin one this year!

• Watch a holiday movie together as a family


• Have Grandma/Grandpa read the kids "The Night Before Christmas" (or alternate holiday story)


• Bust open and share the Peppermint Pig™ (a holiday tradition with Saratoga roots!)


• Make and decorate gingerbread houses


• Bake and/or decorate cookies together


• Celebrate with an Advent calendar with a gift each day leading up to Christmas


• Light the Menorah together every night of Hanukkah


• Put on a Nativity skit


• Read the Christmas story together


• Enjoy a candy cane hot cocoa night


• Go to church as a family


• Volunteer at a local soup kitchen


• Make a charitable donation in lieu of / in addition to gifts


• Drop a gift anonymously at someone's doorstep


• Sing carols at home or go out caroling


• Visit a senior home or hospital


• Have a family member dress as Santa


• Mysteriously have a bag of joke gifts anonymously appear each year


• Play a slideshow of pictures from previous holidays of years past


• Put on a festive puppet show


• Decorate the home together with lights (or go out light sighting!)


• Pick out and/or cut your own tree and decorate as a family


• Do a holiday craft together

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