advent calenders

[Olive]

ok so i bought a large felt calender, its a tree with decorations, i assume we add a decoration each day?? it that how it works? i used to the cardboard one with the chocolate behind each day

[ubba82]

Sounds good to me! We have the choccy ones here.....

[danniellabella]

I just bought a chocolate one for DD...I found an ITNG one and couldn't resist

[Visitor7]

I got Nina a Dora one. But I don't know about the one you've got. Pity it didn't come with instructions

[Jennifer13]

I got one from church that has a little picture behind each day. We did the choccy one the year before too.

(MIL has given us one she made herself but EVERY day comes complete with a gift for DD, so we'll be putting that aside as 'inappropriate' for an already over-toyed 3 year old.)

[Queen]

Would be a decoration for each day! I brought a freddo one this year

[Just Me]

We have made an advent letter box and each day there is a letter in there with the activity we are doing for that day - here is my advent calendar - I am sooo excited about it:

1st - Gift for both kids - Christmas sticker book with Christmas story to do together.
2nd - Going to Lollipops with Grandma
3rd - Making Christmas cards
4th - Making rumballs
5th - Take the kids Christmas shopping for each other
6th - Christmas treasure hunt
7th - Making Christmas presents for family (DD1 is painting some plain canvas shopping bags I ordered over the internet and DS is painting some pictures for some photo coasters I got from Big W)
8th - Gift - Textas and colouring in Christmas book
9th - Going to the Movies
10th - Gift - Story of Christmas magnetic story book
11th - Making a gingerbread star tree
12th - Going to a waterslide park and picnic
13th - Carols by Candlelight and dinner at the beach (with Grandparents, Aunties, Uncles and Cousins)
14th - Making Christmas wrapping paper (I bought some stamps and got some butchers paper to do this)
15th - Going to the Beach with a picnic
16th - Making a decoration for the Christmas tree
17th - Dinner at Sizzler and looking at Christmas lights afterwards (extended family activity)
18th - Pizza and Christmas movie night
19th - Visit to Reef HQ and Museum of Tropical North Queensland
20th - Stable on the Strand
21st - Cooking marshmallow Christmas trees (Superfood Ideas Dec 09)
22nd - Gift - Christmas decoration to put on tree
23rd - Wrapping up Christmas presents and putting them under the tree
24th - Christmas eve breakfast out and Christmas eve party at our house

I am more than a little excited about December. Some of my friends just do a present everyday for December but that is a lot of presents and then Christmas is a bit of an anti-climax. I really like the idea of doing Christmas activities everyday. I also like that their presents, when they have them are all related to the Christmas story.

We have one letter box that we made with number on the front (on post-it notes) and we tear one off each day. We found the calendars, even the ones we make ourselves a bit too small or a bit too space consuming.

Anyway, that's what we are doing for advent. I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!