Hey everyone! I thought I'd add my Christmas Advent Calendar Activities to the mix! I know there are tons of great ideas out there, and mine aren't anything special, but it's something different from last year. This took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R (ever seen Sandlot?) to make and organize this list. My husband has a tricky work schedule so I had to coordinate each activity with his work schedule for each day. WOW! The number next to each is what day # it is. If it says (E) that means that activity was written on a paper to go in an envelope. If it says (gift) then that activity was wrapped as a gift. I'll post a picture of the completed set of activities that I displayed on my mantel!
Ø Play Christmas Clue (17) (this was Tyler's idea... just give the characters Christmas-y names!)
Ø Build a fort and have dinner in it (E)
(7)
Ø Cut out paper snowflakes (gift of coffee filters) (6)
Ø Make popcorn and watch a Christmas
movie (gift of 'Elf' and popcorn) (16)
Ø Hot cocoa and marshmallows (gift of cheap stuff!) (5)
Ø Make a Christmas craft (E)(10)
Ø ‘Don’t
eat frosty’ (gift of game and candy) (4)
Ø Make a card for someone and mail it
(gift of scrapbook paper and stickers)(9)
Ø Gingerbread cookies (gift of premade cookies with icing/candy)(15)
Ø Drive around and look at lights (E)(20)
Ø Read Christmas books (gift of books we already had, just hadn't brought out this season yet!) (2)
Ø Make a music video of a Christmas
song (E)(14)
Ø Play with Christmas play-dough (gift of red peppermint scented playdough)
(3)
Ø Make teacher presents (E) (8)
Ø December 21st: dinner by
candlelight on the longest night of the year! (gift of candles)(21)
Ø Christmas music dance party (E)(12)
Ø Make reindeer food (gift of oatmeal, sequins, glitter and Christmas sprinkles)(23)
Ø Act out the Nativity (E) (24)
Ø Sing Christmas carols (E) (13)
Ø Have a ‘snowball’ fight (gift... cereal box filled with crumpled up coffee filters)(11)
Ø Play Christmas charades and
Pictionary! (gift... mason jar filled with words)(22)
Ø Christmas light thumbprint art (E)(18)
Ø Christmas bingo (gift of, well, bingo!) (19)
Hope that gives you some fun ideas! Other ideas that we are doing, just not for our advent activies include:
-Make an elfyourself video
Merry Christmas!!!!