This year we have three different advent calendars. Yes, you read that right. THREE. We {love} Christmastime and want December to be a month of fun, a month of giving, a month of tradition, and a month of memories. Now that Ryan is two, we are starting in on all the fun!
Our first advent calendar is our book calendar.
Each night before bed, Ryan grabs a present, opens it, yells "book!", then we read it together. It's so much fun! Each book is about Christmas or winter. We had about 4 Christmas books to start with, so I knew I needed 19 more. I started gathering them about a month ago from garage sales, thrift stores, and used book stores. Of course there were a few classics we needed that I bought new from Amazon (The Polar Express, to name one). Then I wrapped them all up and used Christmas colored washi tape to attach these numbers from Living Locurto. I stuck them all in a cute Christmas box I bought at Hobby Lobby for 50% off!
Our next advent is our scripture advent.
Inside each chevron bag is a printed out scripture from this 25 Days of Scripture list. I also stuck a mini Kit Kat in each bag for Ryan. This advent I bought off of Groopdealz earlier this year. Super easy to put together and so cute!
Finally, our last advent is our activity advent.
I found cute holiday countdown printables from iheartorganizing and used those to list our activities. We do one a day.
Our list includes:
Watch a Christmas movie
Pick out a Christmas tree
Make gingerbread houses
Decorate tree
Do a Christmas craft
Go see the Zoolights
Watch a Christmas movie, sleepover style
Have a Christmas music pajama dance party by the tree
Buy an angel tree gift or another service project
Go see Santa
Go elfing
Throw a Christmas Cookie Decorating Party for Ry and friends
Visit Temple Lights and Organ Stop
Ward Christmas Party
Make Christmas deliveries
Go look at Christmas lights
Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Day
Make Christmas Cookies
Fun Christmas breakfast for dinner & movie
Play in snow
Ride the Polar Express
Sing Happy Birthday to Jesus & act out the Nativity
Breakfast with cousins
What do you do for Christmas?
K your the CUTEST MOM in the World! Thank you for sharing ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is SO fun! I love the idea of all three! The books would be so fun at bedtime and of course the scriptures are perfect! LOVE all of them!
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