DIY Kid's Holiday Activity Box

Create a fun Holiday Activity Box for a child to enjoy for the entire month of December! Fill with a combination of purchased and free printable activities. Links to all of the fun free printables I used for our box!

Box of toddler Christmas activities sits on a green table surface.

Hello! December first is right around the corner so today I’m sharing a fun gift I created for my son – a kid’s holiday activity box! I will be giving it to my son on St. Nicholas Day, which is December 5th but it would also be perfect for December 1st. The box is an entire month worth of themed activities!

I have to admit, this gift is for me as much as it is for my son! My little one loves doing activities and sometimes it is hard to find time to prepare things each day – especially in December. This activity box is a whole month’s worth of things for us to do – all prepared and ready to go! So while this is a gift for my son, it is also a gift for me to have everything ready for the month and prepared! I know he is going to be super excited when he opens it!

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To make a Kid’s Holiday Activity Box you need to start with a fun box – mine happens to be a Christmas box I received as part of a gift a few years ago. Fill the box with anything and everything you think your child may like!

Below is a list of all the fun things in our activity box. A lot of it came from the Target dollar section – they have some great holiday stuff! The rest of the activities came from blogs I found online. You can fill this box with purchased items, free printable activities or a mix of both like I did.

When I started doing activities with my son, I found wonderful blogs and websites that offered free printables on their sites. I am so grateful to have new things to print off to keep him busy and entertained. We work from preschool work books, but it is also fun to have these printed matching games and puzzles.

For this Holiday Activity Box, I even found printable games that will get him moving around – perfect for cold or rainy days! Most of the things in our box are geared towards toddlers or preschoolers, but this gift would work for any age depending on what “activities” or craft supplies you include.

I am excited to see how our month goes with things prepared in advance. If this turns out to be wonderful, I may try to do it every month! To create this without it being too time consuming, I started by pinning things on a “Toddler Christmas Activities“ board. Then one night I printed and prepared it all. So it was easier than I thought to plan ahead :)