Fun for the whole countdown
The wait for Christmas is part of the fun. These pages fill it with games, puzzles and things to watch, for every age:
- Christmas trivia: 46 questions in rounds, including movies, songs, kids and hard trivia.
- Christmas jokes and riddles: cracker jokes, dad jokes, knock-knock jokes and riddles.
- Christmas anagrams: twenty word scrambles from easy to hard.
- New Christmas movies 2026 and classic Christmas movies for film nights.
- Christmas videos: Yule logs, carols, crafts and the Santa tracker.
- Kids countdown: sleeps until Santa with activities.
A Christmas games night
Put it all together for a games night: a round of trivia, a joke from each player, an anagram race, then a classic film with hot chocolate. Use the seconds until Christmas as a tiebreaker: closest guess wins.
Fun by age
- Under 6: the kids countdown, knock-knock jokes, and carols with the Jingle Bells button.
- 6 to 12: the kids' trivia round, easy anagrams, and craft videos.
- Teens: the movie trivia round and hard anagrams.
- Adults: hard trivia, riddles for adults, and a classic film night.
Make it a tradition
Fun becomes tradition when you repeat it. Pick one thing from this page to do every year: the same quiz night, the same film on the same evening, or a joke in every cracker. In a few years it will be the part of Christmas everyone looks forward to.
Christmas fun for classrooms
Teachers can run most of these pages straight from a phone or projector. Try a five-minute anagram warm-up, a trivia round on Fridays in December, or a "joke of the day" from the jokes and riddles page. Because every answer is hidden until tapped, the teacher stays in control of the reveal. For a quieter activity, a craft video from Christmas videos works well on the last afternoon of term, and the Christmas break countdown lets the class watch the days to the holidays fall.
Keep exploring
More countdowns, tools and Christmas reading on Christmas Days Left.