ABC's of Advent - alphabet review
Adopt a Family - or prepare boxes for the poor
Advent Angels (hidden service for others) - sometimes called 'Kris Kringel' - tell angel stories, be an earth angel
Advent Calendar - make with window, pockets, plain calendar, journal
Advent Wreath - create with 4 candles (3 purple or blue, 1 pink), pray each Sunday and weekday
Backpack - fill with age-appropriate supplies for the Advent journey
Banners/Door Hangers - announcing the coming of Christ
Bible - place in a prominent position, open to Annunciation
Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas - culminating in a 12th night party
Christ Child's Birthday Cake - bake and give to the Christ child
Christ Light - put a Christ Light in the window (light December 25)
Christmas Cards - write and sign cards
Christmas Day Guessing Game - pick a card, explain the key word' clues
Christmas Pageant - prepare costumes, tell story, rehearse
Christmas Pageant - read the Christmas story or act out in mime with narrator
Cookies and Carols - bake cookies and practice carols with friends
Create a Crèche - use puppets, spools of thread, marionettes, shadow puppets
December 6/St. Nicholas Feast Day - receive tangerines, nuts, small gift
December 8/Immaculate Conception - place statue of Mary out, read, tell story of Mary, show a video,
praise God as in Magnificat story
December 16/Novena of Las Posada - visit each other's homes and pray together
December 17/O Antiphons - count down to Christmas
Decorate the Tree - don't light until Christmas, Eve, if possible
Family Flags - or flags of countries in need of prayers
Hang Stockings - on December 5th, the eve of St. Nicholas' feast day/ write letter
Hanukkah Story - show menorah, tell story of another Festival of Lights
Invitations - write to Christmas guests (or receive from your hosts)
Jesse Tree - symbols (one a day) from the Old Testament
Lectionary - themes and focal points change each Sunday, display a symbolic centerpiece
Our Lady of Guadalupe - tell story, read, book, show video
Reconciliation - prepare yourself for the feast of Christmas
St. Lucy - tell story, do service for another
Story of St. Francis - tell the story of how the crèche came to be
Story Sunday - tell the story of the Annunciation - Mary and Elizabeth
Tablecloth Keepsake - have guests sign and date Christmas tablecloth (embroider names later) - use it year to year or use colored placemats with scenes from the Christ child's birth
Twelve Days of Christmas - discuss the true meaning of the song
Visit Family Graves - pay homage to loved ones
Wonder Baskets - collect the good things of the earth (rocks, twigs, leaves) and praise God; lit your blessings

Have Fun!

Special thanks for Glorio Doino for creating this list and Janet Waring for adding to it.