Family Action has created a festive calendar of activities for families to do together throughout December to add the gift of kindness this year.

Family Advent Calendar Activities
In response to a post-lockdown survey which said families valued spending more quality time together during the pandemic, Family Action has created a calendar to help you prioritise time and celebrate festive family traditions with those you love throughout December. Given the challenging year families across the UK have had, spending quality time and making treasured memories with family is more important than ever: it?s what Christmas is all about!
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Give Back This Christmas
Family Action emphasise the importance of things to do together a family, especially thinking of others ? and the idea of the calendar is to create a new family tradition of giving something back, whether that?s to each other or the local community. Every family is different and they suggest different hobbies with both big and small time commitments to help you create meaningful moments together and spread Christmas cheer as you enjoy a magical schedule of old and new traditions through your free printable Christmas Calendar. Jade Dixon, the author of the Not Your Average Family blog, started in 2016 after she became special guardian of her young niece and nephew when their mother died suddenly.
She said: ?Traditions are really important to our family. We have long-standing ones which allow us all to remember...