Every year on the last day of term at Primary school, school finished at lunchtime and that was always the day we went and chose our Christmas tree at a local farm shop type place.
As the farm shop also had a cafe/coffee shop we had lunch too, so that was the majority of the afternoon taken up.
we would let the tree ' rest ' over night
and thus we decorated the tree on the first full day of the school Xmas holidays.
in South Devon there is a children's attraction ' Pennywell Farm ' and they have visit Santa and a Nativity - and some of the children actually get to join in ! not every child there but around 6/8 are chosen at random to take part.
We went every year on the Sunday before Xmas.
One of the local National Trust type places also held a Saturday morning ' make your own Christmas Wreath ' can't remember which one but that became a tradition too.
The 5pm Christingle service in a local Church , it became a tradition to have a Xmas Eve roast so it would be in the oven so that was ready-ish by the time we got home, after a quick pop into the local Co-op which is opposite the Church for ' treats ' / snacks to eat during the dvd that would have been in dd's Xmas Eve box along with a book.
Pantomime on Boxing day, we are fortunate enough to have 2 theatres in the area so always went to one.
and yes we have been to Lapland too, I believe dd was 6 at the time.