While Winterfest in The Sims series is a reoccurring holiday that can happen anytime you’re playing the game, the real-world holiday season only comes around once a year! To ring in this special time of year, any time of year, in your game, these Sims 4 Holiday Mods will give your sims a wide array of new opportunities, activities, items, and so much more!
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Install Instructions
Please review our Mods & CC Installation & Maintenance guide. A simplified version is…
To add the items to your game on Windows, follow this folder path:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods
To add the items to your game on MacOS, follow this folder path:
Macintosh HD/Users/User/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
Once you’ve downloaded the files, make sure you have an extraction program installed. These can include 7Zip, Winrar, etc. After that, highlight one or multiple zipped/compressed files and select “Extract Here”. Drag the extracted contents to your Mods folder. You can also sort them into their own folders within your Mods folder, but it is recommended to not nest them too many levels deep as it can cause longer loading times, and some CC items and mods stop working when too deep within folders.
Tip: While many creators provide additional files, like .txt/ReadMe, .jpg/.png files, and more possible file types for previews or instructions, it is best practice to not put those into your Mods folder as they can also lead to longer load times and excessive clutter. Creators will often specify any files that need to be put into the folder, along with where, so primarily focus on .package and .ts4script files!
The Sims 4 Holiday Mods
Cozy Winter Outings by Midnitetech
This Sims 4 Holiday mod by creator Midnitetech adds new rabbitholes, gifts, unique items, buffs, and activities your sims can do to ring in this special time of the year, especially Winterfest. Sims can visit cafes with their family to warm up with a hot coffee, or visit a winter market and check items off their list! Per Midnitetech, the full list of activities includes…
- Walk The Winter Lights Trail
- Visit the Cozy Kettle Cafe
- Explore Lantern Lane Winter Market
- Go Tree Shopping
- Shop for Winterfest Gifts
- Catch a Festive Flix Feature
- Join the Neighborhood Snow Day
- Go Candlelit Caroling
This mods gives your sims a wide array of activities to do by themselves, with that special someone, or with their whole household!
Requirements
The Sims 4 Holiday Celebration Pack Free DLC
Lot51 Core Library
Core library is used by modders as a base mod to avoid conflicts between mods, as well as easily add gameplay features. It does not change anything in the game on its own.
Holiday Hassle by Thatssojordy
Thatssojordy has added a great Sims 4 Holiday mod that gives your sims new interactions between their family and household members during a multitude of holidays present on the calendar. If you don’t have The Sims 4 Seasons DLC but still want to celebrate in your game, Thatssojordy created TWO versions; One is base game compatible and shows all the interactions at once, and the second requires Seasons and only shows certain interactions during the appropriate season.
There are a multitude of interactions, including asking those close to you what they really want for their Winterfest present, asking whether Father Winter is really real, and discussing family recipes or healthy recipes to make for Harvestfest.
Requirements
Lot51 Core Library
Core library is used by modders as a base mod to avoid conflicts between mods, as well as easily add gameplay features. It does not change anything in the game on its own.
More Holiday Traditions by MSQSims
If the traditions available while creating custom holidays with The Sims 4 Seasons have felt slightly limited or stale, MSQSims created an expansion of holiday traditions so you can really create whatever holiday you want! With a heavy focus on finding collectibles and other gameplay features that are so common in every save, you can give your sims a real boost of joy from completing these traditions any day of the year!
Requirements
The Sims 4 Seasons DLC
Surprise Holidays Be Gone! By Simmytime
Do you enjoy Winterfest and Love Day, but have grown tired of the random Neighborhood Brawl, Lottery Day, or TV Season Premiere popping up out of nowhere? Sick of your sims getting sad because they weren’t able to scrap with their neighbors or go out to get dinner on a random Tuesday? Simmytime had that exact same thought, and created a mod that disables those random pop-up holidays that can cause you to stray from the plans you had for that day.
Requirements
The Sims 4 Seasons DLC
Sims 4 Happy Holiday Stuff by Simsi45
With converted items originally available in The Sims 4 Happy Holiday Stuff, Simsi45 brings in a wave of nostalgia to your Sims’ Winterfest with 27+ new items, converted from The Sims 2! Decorate your home for the season with festive stars, new paintings, light-up deer for your lawn, nutcrackers, and so much more!
Let’s Grow a Christmas Tree by icemunmun
Icemunmun, known for their custom food mods, has a Sims 4 Holiday mod that allows your sims to grow their own Christmas Tree! It functions differently than the tree provided by The Sims 4 Seasons, or The Sims 4 Holiday Celebration Pack; This tree grows ornaments, candy canes, and sugar stars your sims can eat or replant! This mod is base game compatible!
Interactive Gift Boxes & Chocolate Holiday Calendar by Arnie
As part of their Holiday Calendar Event of 2024, Arnie released multiple Sims 4 Holiday mods leading up to the 25th to expand your sims’ available activities and items! The two we wanted to focus on are primarily the Interactive Gift Boxes and Chocolate Holiday Calendar!
Arnie’s Interactive Gift Boxes allow you to place multiple customizable gift boxes anywhere you want, store gifts for the intended sims within them, instead of playing guessing games with the Sims 4 Seasons gift piles! Sims can rename the boxes, view the inventory, or purchase gifts online from their menus before opening them on Winterfest!
Similar to a real-world advent calendar, the Chocolate Holiday Calendar is intended to be set up at the beginning of your Winterfest season. As taking candies from the calendar have a 24-hour cooldown, you can have your sim open a new window and enjoy a little treat every single day leading up to Winterfest!
Christmas Set by Strangestorytellersims
If you’re getting bored of the original decorations and items provided in The Sims 4 Seasons, Strangestorytellersims created new overrides that recolor the gift piles, holiday tree, garland, decoration box, and more newer textures and more appropriate color schemes!
Requirements
The Sims 4 Seasons DLC
Thank you to gallery user @NikStmk for the lot used in our images!
Do you have any special plans around this time of the year, or any traditions you’re looking forward to! Let us know! Make sure to follow The Sims Community for more mod showcases, and we hope you have a safe and happy holidays!❄️
