21 Easy, Cheap, and Fun! Ways to Celebrate Winter Solstice in a Pandemic

1. Make your own moon and stars or Goddess cookie cutters, from aluminum (soda pop) cans:  here's an example of a Goddess from http://buntwerkstatt.at/ausstecher-selber-machen/ (use google translate to read it in English, if you prefer); you can also use these to cut out shapes in clays, like Fimo, Sculpey, or air-dry clays
2. Make cookies; maybe spritz or sugar cookie cut-outs
3. Make a food from your ancestors, like pierogies or gumbo or shepard's pie, and lay out an altar dedicated to them
4. Stay up all night: longest night observance vigil
5. Go for a walk the day of solstice eve & also on solstice day
6. Write out your Resolutions for the upcoming year; also think about your word/phrase for the year...mine might be "kind"; 2020's was 'embodiment'
7. Browse your inspiration file/sources, and work on your post-Pandemic bucket list for 2021, and beyond
8. Research archaeological astronomical sights, like Stone Henge, the Grange, mounds (like wood henge) and view celebrations online
9. Decorate a cake with Stone Henge
10. Gingerbread houses: you can make these from scratch, a kit, or even graham crackers, or toaster pastries (like Nature's Path or Pop Tarts)
11. Buy or bake (or burn) a Buche de Noel / Yule log
12. Yule carols
13. Tarot reading, online or your own cards, or order from someone locally or online
14. Read 2021 astrological predictions for your sign
15. Buy/find yourself a crystal/stone, starting a tradition of a crystal per Sabbat
16. Plant some seeds
17. Find/make some pagan themed calendars, bullet journals, altared*journals, a BOS  (Book of Shadows (& Light!)) &/or daily planners
18. Other Solstice-y crafts you like—maybe needle or yarn crafts, sigil creation for 2021, yule spells in an ornament, wreath making, yule decor, sewing a dream bag, making a poppet, writing a BOS page, crafting with salt-dough, painting your creative visions,  while watching pagan/inspirational movies or videos
19. Light some Candles and winter-y incense
20. Compost &/or organize and purge things
21. Ritual bath and ritual