1. Get your friends together to string popcorn and cranberries while watching animated kids' classics like A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
2. Offer free babysitting for a busy mom in your church while she goes shopping.
3. Pile the family in the car and drive around your town looking at Christmas lights.
4. Drop anonymous notes on your teachers' desks thanking them for sharing their gift of teaching with you. You may want to include a message about the greatest gift of all, Jesus!
5. Make a nativity scene from snow; if you live near a sunny beach, sand-sculpt the nativity scene.
6. Check with your local animal shelter and see if you and your friends can help give the animals their baths. Bring red and green ribbon to give them bows when you're done.
7. Grab your siblings for a fun day of shopping for your parents. After you've purchased the gifts, find a good place to sit and watch people. Try and guess who they're shopping for and what they bought.
8. Try a holiday recipe from a different culture, like Mexican wedding cookies or Norwegian lefse.
9. Read the Christmas story (Matthew 1 and Luke 2:1-20) several times before Christmas; write down some new insights God gives you as you read.
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