Free Christmas Planner – 38 Printable Pages To Help You Prep For Christmas

Our printable Christmas planner is packed full of everything you need to help you get ready and organized in plenty of time to enjoy a stress-free holiday. And what's more, it’s completely FREE!

I'm pretty confident that this is one of the most comprehensive and useful Christmas planners around. I put it together after years of Christmas planning for my family and friends.

I promise that you won’t find a better Christmas planner anywhere. Grab your planner right now, and start planning today. Remember, it's totally free!

Get Organized For Christmas The Easy Way!

Whether you’re an earlier prepper who gets started in July or September, or whether you like to get started closer to the start of the holiday season, this 38 page planner has everything you need.

I know how easily the stress of planning the festive holiday can take the fun out of it. Which is why I’ve taken care to put together all the individual checklist, timeline, schedule, calendar, inventory and planning pages you need.

This planner has absolutely everything you need to help with planning, organizing, scheduling, gift-buying, budgeting, decorating, menu planning and cooking.

So, if you are someone who struggles with the overwhelming stresses of feeling underprepared for the festive season, then this printable Christmas planner is going to be exactly what you need.

The Best Christmas planner for busy moms

This Christmas planner sorts your holiday chaos without adding to it. It’s built for parents who need to track gifts, meals, and that one relative who’s suddenly vegan this year.

Unlike those tiny planners that give you three lines to organise your entire December, this one’s properly sized with actual space to write.

The simple but beautiful red and white design makes it feel less like a homework assignment and more like something you might actually want to pull out when you’re trying to remember if you already bought your nephew a gift.

It helps you:

• Track your shopping (so you don’t accidentally buy your daughter three sets of headphones)
• Plan your December schedule (before it plans you)
• Organise your holiday meals (beyond “buy all the cheese”)

All without making you feel like you need a separate planner to understand your planner.

You’ll find pages for planning the things you need to do, the food you need to buy, the recipes you need to make, and everything else from decorations, that all important budget, and much more.

Never sure where to start? I've got a super popular guide to Christmas planning over on my lifestyle website, Mumsmakelists.com:  My ultimate guide of 100+ Christmas Planning Tips.

The Christmas Planner That Gave Me My Holidays Back

It’s taken me years of practise to hone the skill of preparing for our family Christmas without ending up a shadow of myself come Christmas Day.

So I decided to create a Christmas planner that would cover absolutely everything I would need to do for the run-up to the big day.

Since using this planner, I’ve stopped having that 3am “did I forget something important?” panic. My Christmas shopping isn’t a chaotic last-minute scramble, and I’m not frantically baking cookies at midnight while questioning my life choices.

The best part? I actually enjoy December now. Instead of collapsing in an exhausted heap on Christmas Day, I’m present enough to laugh when the kids unwrap their gifts (and organised enough to remember where I stored the batteries).

If you’re tired of feeling like Christmas is something that happens to you rather than with you, this free printable planner might just save your holiday sanity too.

Whether you’re hosting extended family, a bunch of friends, something small for just your family unit, or a big ambitious gathering, this Christmas planner will help you plan ahead and stay organized.

Why It pays to start properly planning for Christmas

This planner is here to help guide you through everything you need to do.

So all those pre-Christmas panicky thoughts that pop into your head can be handled with calm and ease…

• How much is it all going to cost and can we afford it? What’s my budget?!
• What Christmas gifts do I need to buy and where will I get them from (that isn’t just Amazon in a last-minute panic!)
• Are my current Christmas decorations still usable, or do I need to do a refresh and restock?
• How big is my grocery list going to be and do I have everything I need in the pantry?
• Who is on the guest list for this year?
• Is Christmas dinner going to be the same as last year or do I need a new menu?
• Could I possibly make Christmas day potluck to ease my time in the kitchen?!

Use the planner sheets, checklists, recipe cards, and more to plan your meals, gifting, budgeting, and chores and start planning for this year’s Christmas now.

The most useful Christmas planner printable you’ll ever have

This thoughtfully designed 38 page printable Christmas planner has everything you need to help you make this Christmas the most well-planned and organized one yet.

You’ll be so organized and chilled by the time Christmas arrives that you will be able to really relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends.

Your Complete Christmas Command Centre (Without the Stress)

This Christmas planner handles everything from who’s bringing dessert to which child needs to feed the dog before presents.

Track your guest list, organise potluck contributions, plan your shopping, and create a cooking timeline that doesn’t require a Christmas miracle to accomplish.

And because Christmas involves approximately 10,000 moving parts, you’ll find budget trackers, gift lists, chore charts for the kids (so you’re not the only one working), recipe cards, and shopping lists all in one place.

How to Use It

Print just the pages you need and stick them in your existing planner, pop them in a binder, or magnetise them to your fridge where everyone can see them.

The pages come in 8.5″ x 11″ but work perfectly on A4 too. Need A5 for your handbag planner, you can print it out at that size too.

Right, let’s walk through the planner step by step so you can see what’s in it.

Weekly Planning Pages

There are three different week planning page layouts so you can choose the one that suits your needs best.

 

Daily Planning Page

And there’s a daily planning page for when you want to get more granular.

Master To Do List

I love a master to do list, it’s my basic go-to for when I want to quickly jot down all my tasks and tick them off quickly.

Calendar

Print a sheet for every month you are planning… so maybe start with September if you really want to get ahead.

I start in October. You can use my Christmas Planning Checklist to see how I breakdown all the things that need covering off.

Mind Your Money

One of the most important aspects of planning for Christmas is knowing what your budget is, keeping track of that budget and, of course, saving towards that budget.

So I find a budget tracker comes in super useful, as does a savings tracker to keep focused on stashing the cash to go towards the festive season.

Household Management

Of course housework and chores don’t go away just because the festive season is incoming!

In fact, it often means there is more to do and less time to do it in!

So get organised with this housework tasks planner and then use the chore chart to share the load with other capable members of your household.

Appointments

You might well use your phone to keep track of appointments, but sometimes when there’s a lot going on, it’s good to have a visual image right there in front of you – the fridge is always a good place or a command centre – where you can take a quick look at where you need to be and when.

Christmas Eve is crunch point for getting all the final prep done ahead of the big day on the 25th.

It’s also a bit of a juggle day, as you’ll likely also want to be having some fun and making those magical memories with your family come the evening itself.

So this Christmas Eve Planner can help you stay on task.

Christmas Day Planner

Much like Christmas Eve, the big day itself can do with some careful planning and management, so that you can actually enjoy it.

Taking the time to plan the non-negotiables is time well spent that will be repaid in fun and enjoyment on the day.

Guest List

Whether you are planning a big gathering for Christmas day or parties, family reunions and get togethers during the festive season, this guest list tracker will keep you one step ahead of who is coming and if they have any special requirements.

Party Planner

I find this sheet invaluable for doing a quick party plan for all the gatherings I organise over the holiday season. I am sure you find it comes in useful too.

My roundup of Christmas Party Theme Ideas is super popular at this time of year!

Potluck Planner

I love hosting a potluck, it’s a great way to bring a real sense of shared agency to making a get together wonderful.

I also love attending potlucks and really appreciate it when the host has a solid plan of who is bringing what. So this potluck planner is a super useful sheet to have.

Food Planning

So here we are, the heart of most festive season gatherings… the food!

Here is a selection of useful printable planning sheets you can choose from to help you stay on track with all the food (and drink!) requirements through the Christmas period.

Kitchen Inventory

Use this sheet to do a thorough stocktake in your kitchen and pantry.

Holiday recipe cards

Here are two varations of recipe cards you can use to write out your festive season recipes.

Grocery Lists

And here are two variations of grocery lists you can use to take the pain out of all the grocery shopping.

Dinner menu

Plan each lunch, brunch or dinner party menu meticulously with this dinner menu planner. It has its own grocery list too.

Shopping List

Sometimes all you need is a generic shopping list to add a range of different items to ahead of nipping out to the shops… well here’s a printable template just for that purpose.

Christmas Card List

I must admit we send a receive a dwindling amount of Christmas cards as the years go on, it all started to change in 2020, when we realised that it’s not always a necessary chore.

But if you are still big on sending cards to friends and family, here’s a list to keep track and make sure you don’t forget to send a card to Great Uncle Stanley!

Gifting

Alongside food, gifts can be a huge part of Christmas, especially if you have lots of kids excitedly awaiting Santa Claus!

So here are some useful printables for keeping track of planning who you are buying gifts for, what you are going to buy them, where you are going to buy the gifts and how much you are spending.

Christmas Decorations

Whether you go for a minimal smattering of decorations or rival NYC shop windows for fanciness, these Christmas Decor planners are super useful.

Decorations Inventory

I always start by taking stock of what we’ve actually got in the way of decorations.

If I am really on my game at the end of Christmas I also take note of what’s reached the end of its life and will need replacing.

So this inventory is really handy.

Decorations Inspiration

I am partial to creating a Pinterest board for my Christmas decor inspiration. But this sheet is great for printing out a few pieces of inspo to have on my command centre wall.

Follow me on Pinterest to see what I am saving to my boards.

Decor Shopping Planner

There is something so fun about buying new Christmas decorations. I love to get the family involved with choosing too, we have certain tree decorations chosen by each of us that make for nostalgic moments each year.

Christmas Bucket List

One of the things I love most at the start of each festive season is sitting down with my family and coming up with our bucket list of the things we’d love to do.

I make sure there is a mix of bigger stuff and smaller stuff on the list, there is usually a big splurge, like a show, but then smaller things that don’t cost a dime, but are equally special.

Christmas Movies To Watch

I don’t know about your family, but mine gets super excited about watching movies together, especially during Betwixtmass, that in between times period after Boxing Day and before New Year’s Eve, when you officially get to relax and not feel guilty for sofa surfing day after day.

So what better way to make sure that everyone gets their fix, beit Home Alone 2, Die Hard or The Holiday… 

Note Sheet

I included this because it is always useful to have a simple note sheet printable to use on repeat.

Gratitude Sheet

And I am rounding off the Christmas Planner with this gratitude sheet. Use it with your family, use it for yourself.

There’s so much going on in the world and in all our lives at the moment, so it’s important to take a moment to focus on the positives and give thanks.

Get the christmas planner bundle

There are two ways to get the Christmas Planner pages from this bundle.

Either open each image to get the large version and save it to your computer.

Alternatively, if you’d like the whole bundle in one go as a high quality PDF, pop your email address in the form below and it’ll be in your inbox before you know it.

And that’s a wrap! 38 useful printable sheets to help you make this Christmas the one where you get organized early so that you can truly enjoy the festive period!

 

 

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