Three Fun and Easy Activities to do at Home for the Holidays with Your Loved Ones
Please enjoy this blog post by guest writer Erica Johns.
The holiday season is usually known for being tons of fun, but it can be hard sometimes to think of things to do inside. This becomes a problem when we aren’t quite feeling up to bracing the cold winter weather. Here are three ideas so that you can have fun with your friends, family, or a significant other, while staying warm!
Cookie Decorating
Who doesn’t love a good Christmas cookie? However, this idea can go much further than just your typical activity of baking cookies. I recommend adding an element of competition while decorating. Make sure you are stocked up on decorating supplies. Starting with the frosting, you should have at least a few flavors of frosting for the base, as well as many colors of gel frosting for smaller designs. Then moving on to toppings, chocolate chips and a variety of sprinkles are always a good idea. However, my personal favorite are the little candy letters, getting to write little messages on your cookies can be a lot of fun. Then, pick an unbiased judge, and see who can create the best decorated cookies! It might even be fun to have categories; most colorful, tastiest, most creative, etc.
Another fun twist on this idea would be a Cookie Swap Party. You can invite over some of your friends, asking them each to either come with a dozen of their freshly baked cookies, or their recipes. You can bake together, or trade cookies! This is also a great opportunity to implement an element of competition; who has the best tasting cookie? There also is a chance for categories such as, most flavorful, most unique, etc.
Gingerbread Houses
Now, you may feel like this is too much baking after you have just spent a lot of time thinking about cookies. However, this idea actually doesn’t include baking.
Grocery stores carry gingerbread houses, where all of the parts are pre-made, they only require assembling! This is fun because after you simply put the parts together, you can decorate the house, and even make little gingerbread men to live there. Similar to the cookie decorating idea, this is a great chance to create a competition for the best looking gingerbread house.
Christmas Movies
This idea, unlike the others, requires zero frosting, or any other baking ingredient for that matter. Netflix, as well as many other streaming platforms carry multiple Christmas movie classics. My personal favorite being How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Cuddle up with a bunch of blankets, some loved ones, a fire in the fireplace, and a good cup of peppermint hot chocolate to enjoy a good movie! You could even make a marathon out of it, how many can you watch in a row?
Conclusion: There are many things you can do with the people you care about, especially during the holiday season. The possibilities are endless, both inside and outside, sometimes you just have to get creative!
