During this Christmas season there are a few activities in which you and your family can participate for free:
Visit the Christmas light displays at a Mormon temple (for visitors and residents in the Salt Lake City, UT area or Mesa, AZ area). While these light displays are on Mormon temple grounds, the majority of these light displays and choir events are non-denominational. In fact, there are often choirs singing from congregations of various faiths. The number of lights range in the tens to hundreds of thousands. There are also nativity scenes and presentations inside the visitor’s centers.
There are likely many local Churches that are offering events during the Christmas season, including dinners and concerts. One of my particular favorites is a Handel’s Messiah sing-along.
Go on a Christmas light tour around your city. There are many home owners who create some spectacular light displays during the Christmas season. Some with tens of thousands of lights that flash and dance to music. Try finding a map of all the light displays in your area by going to a website for a local newspaper or news TV station. Here is one that I found for the Phoenix, AZ area where I live.
Find free things to do at the About.com website for your specific city. About.com has multiple pages on various topics which are maintained by individual guides. The specific website for your city is probably maintained by a guide who lives nearby and finds just such activities for the holiday season in your area. Here is the one for Phoenix as an example.
Volunteer at a local food bank or charity. The holiday season is a great time of year to offer service to those who are less fortunate than ourselves. It’s nice to receive gifts, but a family can learn the true meaning of Christmas by serving together. There is no better way to honor the Individual whose birth we are celebrating. And it’s something you can do at absolutely no charge.
Free Christmas activities, arts & crafts and photos with Santa at Bass Pro Shops. Bass Pro Shops announced in their Black Friday ad that they’d have these free events up until December 24th.
Free Activities Online:
Send funny digital Christmas card to your friends and family with Elf Yourself. You can upload your own faces into the card.
If Elf Yourself wasn’t enough, then you can try other free options at Jib Jab or StoryBots. Jib Jab is a little more for adults than kids.
Try finding some funny Christmas videos on YouTube. Here are a couple that I know from previous years: Trigger Happy TV Chimney Sweep, Trigger Happy TV Snowman, and Bohemian Rhapsody Christmas.
Find Christmas specials and other holiday videos that you can watch for free on Hulu for the Holidays.
There are probably limitless Christmas activities you can find online. These are simply some of the very entertaining ones that I’ve seen before.
Have a merry Christmas filled with joy and free activities.
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