Christmas with teens

[Cantchoosenickname]

I’m looking for ideas for things to do with older teens at Christmas.

Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated!

We usually do ice skating in Hyde Park which they love. Christmas markets are always fun too.

Watching with interest. It’s hard to get my teen and pre teen interested in anything that’s not gaming or their friends/girlfriend.

Ohhh I love both of those ideas! Thank you! There’ll be a Christmas market we can go to nearby. I’m going to check for ice skating!

Teen boys in particular!

Pub
Midnight mass
Back to pub
sleep until 2pm
eat
sleep all afternoon
drinking games

simple.

We found that jager bombs were popular with older teens and those over 85 on christmas evening.

Cant beat a bit of cards against humanity.

Soon you'll be able to see if the Coca Cola Christmas truck is stopping near you this year.
Hold a gingerbread house making competition or work together to make a gingerbread village.
Go and see a film. There's a new Grinch coming out this year and another Fantastic Beasts.

Do you mean Christmas day, or around Christmas?
I make my own wreath, so DD is coming foraging with me for holly etc. It’s always a laugh. She never helps with the wreath itself, she just makes a hot chocolate and watches me, giving directives.

I make christmas biscuits, she just likes cutting the shapes, then assembling them together, we natter.

This year I am taking her to a christmas play followed by afternoon tea in a place with a fireplace, according to her, they make good cakes.
It’s a long standing tradition to see a panto, we’re 5 families, we book ‘the children’s seats away from ours.
We have a walk on boxing day and new year’s day we have a walk on the beach, we get fish and chips. The walks are done with her childhood friends, they revert to being 2 and go along with whatever we ask them to do.

Left to their own devices, they won’t do anything but sit on the sofa on their ipads.

I’m looking for ideas for throughout the Christmas period. Generally they’re quite happy just left to potter on Christmas Day.

Not especially christmassy, but we did an escape room last year and they loved it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/3050264-Ideas-for-making-Christmas-fun-for-teenagers-older-children

We did the mean santa thing last year, inspired by the thread I8toys has just linked. It went down really well, everybody had a good laugh.

I like the firepit idea too.

Cant beat a bit of cards against humanity

I bought this , my DS ( nearly 19yo) says "I;m not playing that with my Mother "

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Awww bless the poster who suggested making a gingerbread village with teens

Somewhere between gingerbread men and cards organist humanity is called for

Or cards against humanity! Not sure where organist came from

I'm taking mine on an overnight city break to go to a Christmas market and for Christmas shopping.

We are visiting a Xmas market, and now my teen son has finally (though not completely) convinced me that Die Hard is a Xmas mOviedo, we are going to see that also.

That should have said movie 😳

Exploding kittens game?
An escape room of you want to get out the house?