Welcome to Create the Holidays (formerly Create Christmas) – a series of festive ideas!
We started this series in 2012 to share seasonal holiday recipes, crafts, printables, and ideas.
There will be posts for Christmas, Hanukkah (Chanukah), Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, New Year, and all the other things celebrated during the winter months!
Create the Holidays (formerly Create Christmas)
Anything we share on The Purple Pumpkin Blog that is winter holiday or Christmas-related is part of this series. In Create the Holidays, you’ll find various recipes, crafts, printables, and other seasonal ideas!
This page is the central hub for the Winter Holiday and Christmas series. Click through each year to see all the ideas for that year—enjoy!
Create the Holidays 2024
This year, we are including Thanksgiving in the Winter Holiday series!
Create the Holidays 2023
There were a few new-style printables, including movie trivia and emoji games! We also shared lots of treats for the Holidays.
Create the Holidays 2022
We shared a host of Christmas party printables, new printable Christmas characters to build, Kwanzaa printables, charcuterie board ideas, and many recipes and crafts.
Create the Holidays 2021
A variety of holiday appetizers, cocktails, crafts, and printables.
Create the Holidays 2020
I shared a ton of recipes for winter and the holidays, as well as great crafts and printables.
Create Christmas 2019
There were many fun paper crafts, including Disney ornaments, build-a-Christmas characters, and winter animals. There were cake recipes, cocktails, mocktails, and other drinks, and some crafts were also thrown in for good measure!
Create Christmas 2018
It’s the year of the roundups! This means a lot of ideas not only from The Purple Pumpkin Blog but also from the blogging community at large. I turned one of my Christmas characters into a felt ornament and had planned to do more, but time ran away from me…
Create Christmas 2017
Billed as one of the worst years of my life, it meant that my blog suffered. We also took a much-needed family holiday for two weeks in December, accounting for the lack of posts. But there were cocktails, mocktails, and Christmas Eve box ideas for adults.
Create Christmas 2016
2016 was a bad year for me, and it reflected on my blog, too. But I still got some Christmas ideas, with several free printables, including 3 different Olafs!
Create Christmas 2015
This year, my cute, chubby characters were introduced, and they appear in my free printables.
Create Christmas 2014
This was the year that it became “Create Christmas”! There were more sweet Christmas recipes this year; I think it was the first year I included New Year’s in the series.
Create Christmas 2013
I shared a variety of alternative (to turkey) Christmas recipes, as well as some festive crafts and printables.
Create Christmas 2012
My first Christmas series was “Cook, Craft, Create Christmas”. I shared Christmas recipes, handmade gift ideas, printables, and crafts.