Ideas for Your Christmas Bucket List

Are you looking for ideas for your Christmas Bucket List, 25 Days of Serving, or 25 Days of Blessings? I have compiled a list of ideas for you. The list is divided into 4 categories: Serving, Giving, Encouraging, and Experiencing.

Have fun compiling your bucket list for this Christmas season!

Serving

Volunteer at a local food pantry or soup kitchen.
Read Christmas stories at a local preschool or children’s hospital.
Help with the children’s Christmas program at church
Take a meal to someone who is shut-in or to a family in need
Help someone carry their bags
Offer to go Christmas shopping with an elderly person or to do their shopping for them
Go Christmas caroling at a nursing home
Go to an elderly person’s home and help them clean and decorate for Christmas
Offer to babysit for a single mom so she can go Christmas shopping
Ring bells for the Salvation Army
Shovel snow for a neighbor, single mom, or an elderly person
Volunteer at a local pet shelter
Host a Christmas party for your neighbors
Pass out sack lunches to the homeless
Sign up to be a Big Brother or Big Sister
See a need and then fill it.

Giving

Put together manna bags to give to the homeless
Mail a holiday card and/or care package to soldiers stationed overseas
Put together care packages for college students to take with them when they head back to school
Send a “sunshine box” to a friend who needs some encouragement
Adopt a family in need.
Buy gifts for a child on an “Angel Tree”
Donate gifts to Toys for Tots
Adopt a missionary family and send them a holiday care package
Sponsor a child through World Vision or Compassion International.
Buy a cow, pig, goat, etc. through World Vision to help feed families in third world countries
Put extra change in a meter that’s about to expire
Pay for the order of the person behind you in line
Leave your server a generous tip (and don’t forget to add an encouraging note)
Donate blood
Donate clothing, household items, books, etc. that you don’t need
Bring treats to the office for your co-workers
Donate food & hygiene products to a local homeless shelter
Pass out candy canes or another Christmas candy when running errands.
Bake Christmas cookies and take to the local fire department or police department
Fill a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child
Contact your local women’s shelter and ask about donating presents for the families there.
Crochet or knit hats, scarves, and blankets and then donate
Host a Sole Hope Shoe Party
Donate supplies to a shelter or youth home
Plant a tree
Take a “sustenance basket” to a friend in the hospital

Encouraging Others

Give compliments
Smile
Take the time to really listen the next time you ask someone how they are
Make a personalized playlist for a family member or friend
Say “thank you”
Write a letter of appreciation to someone who has been a positive influence on you
Call a friend or family member that you haven’t spoken to in a while.
Sit with someone who is eating alone
Write a letter to a family member or friend that you haven’t contacted in a while.
Send Christmas cards
Post a Bible verse on social media
Share a post from your favorite blogger
Pick 5 people and leave an encouraging comment on Facebook or Twitter
Write a note or send a post letting someone know that you are praying for them
Pass out sets of Scripture cards
Make a friendship kit, sister kit, or “survival” kit
Sit next to someone who is sitting alone at church or invite them to sit with you
Invite your pastor’s family over for dinner
Offer a hug
Pay attention. Be present.
Visit your parents and grandparents
Leave a treat for your mail carrier