December 1st Boxes: 33 Ideas For An Enjoyable Holiday Season

33 Fun Ideas for Your December 1st Boxes

December is such a special and eventful month. There is so much to do and so much to look forward to, I’ve even wrote about things to do in the month of December, checkout 37 Exciting Things To Do In December for a list of exciting activities for the month of December.

My family loves celebrating Christmas and look forward to it every year, especially my little ones. And while they are still young, I am always looking for ways to create new family traditions they can grow up with that will create a lifetime of joyous memories for them.

We started the tradition of decorating gingerbread houses, and we’ve added advent calendars to our yearly Christmas family festivities, but this year one tradition I am really looking forward to is creating December 1st boxes for each person in our family.

I know this newly adapted tradition will make the month of December even more exciting for my family. The December boxes will be given to each family member on the first day of December with Christmas-themed items and activities that will keep them occupied this holiday season, especially since the kids will be out of school and will be spending a great deal of time at home.

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What is a December 1st Box?

A December 1st box is a unique box that each family member receives on the 1st day of December. This box is filled with Christmas-themed items that will make the Christmas season extra special for your family, especially the kiddos who will look forward to these boxes every year.

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How to Create a December 1st Box

You can use large wooden crates, Santa’s Christmas sack, storage bins, a tote bags, clear plastic boxes, foldable cubes, or whatever you have that can hold your December 1st items.

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What can I add to my December 1st Boxes?

If you are making your December 1st boxes for the first time and looking for ideas on what items to add to the boxes, here are some of the Christmas-themed items that I will be adding to my family’s December 1st boxes. I will not add all of these items to each box, each family member’s Christmas box will filled with different items, In other words, no two boxes will be have the same items.

33 Items to Add to Your Christmas Boxes

1) An advent calendar:

An advent calendar is a fun way to count down the days to Christmas. Last year, my sister and her boyfriend gifted our family a chocolate advent calendars from Trader Joe’s. This calendar had twenty-four pockets that held twenty-four small pieces of Christmas-themed shaped chocolates. Every morning or night, but mostly morning, we opened one window/pocket of the calendar to see which Christmas-themed shape the piece of chocolate would be. We did this everyday from December 1st to December 24th (Christmas Eve)! Such a sweet treat! My kids absolutely loved it and we are looking forward to doing this again this year.

2) Christmas books:

Reading books to your family this time of year will only increase their excitement about the holiday season. Don’t forget to read about the birth of Jesus Christ.

3) Christmas movies for every Friday night until Christmas

4) Festive Christmas sweaters

5) 2-3 pairs of Christmas pajamas

6) Christmas hats

7) Christmas scarf

8) A pair of gloves

9) Christmas socks

10) Christmas slippers

11) Gingerbread kits

12) A special Christmas ornaments

13) Hot chocolate packets

14) A Christmas Mug