Things To Do This Christmas

Ever wonder what you can do around the holidays when you’re bored? Living in a small state or a small-town can be hard to come up with things to do any time of year, but I can assure you there are ALWAYS things to do around Christmas! This might be a long list (I just loved seeing these ideas come to life) so bear with me.  

• Decorating- My family, friends, and I love to decorate together. It’s a form of bonding, knowing more about each other’s style and making memories that’ll last a lifetime.

• Picking a Christmas tree (real or fake) and decorating it

• Watching classic Christmas movies- It’s a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, The Grinch who Stole Christmas

• Drinking hot chocolate

• Going to a Christmas parade- Every year of high school I was in the band, and I got to march in the Christmas parade. It was so much fun that I go back annually to admire other people in the parade.

• Watching fireworks

• Baking cookies

• Drinking eggnog- There’s plenty of good recipes on Pinterest!

• Saving money for presents

• Wrapping presents

• Make a Christmas Shoe Box/donate- I’ve written another article about Christmas Shoe Box. If you haven’t read it, it’s a program where you put necessities and toys for children in other countries who have never gotten a Christmas present before. (See my article "Season of Giving").

• Have a Christmas photoshoot with friends or by yourself 

• Go to a Christmas party/throw your own

• Play dirty Santa/white elephant or other games

• Ugly sweater contest

• Take a picture with your friends or family and create a Christmas card

• Site-see Christmas lights

• Go to a Christmas play

• Write a letter to an old friend or a family member

• Ice Skating- I know there’s an ice skating rink in Shreveport, La at the local mall. I’ve only been once when I was a kid, but I hope to do it again soon.

• Take a weekend to drive somewhere where you can see snow - I’m used to never really seeing snow or not a whole lot of it, so my friends and I usually drive to another city or state to site-see and have snowball fights! There is a lot of things to do this Christmas in general, not just here in Ruston, La. I hope this gave you a few good ideas this holiday season, so you won’t feel bored or not have any fun/memorable plans. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather, so you don’t catch a cold. Hopefully, it won’t be long before we can get back to our normal lives without social distancing(#covid2020).