Advent Calendar Activities
Being confined gives me more opportunity to blog...
The kids want to have an Advent calendar this year. The only trouble with that is that we celebrate the twelve days of Christmas by opening one package every morning. A couple of years ago when we had an Advent calendar (by Playmobil) it was just too many days of opening presents.
Then today (or yesterday) I received Kids Craft Weekly in my email inbox. This issue had a link to an Advent Activity Calendar from the Kiddley archives. This is it, folks! Essentially every day there is some small-ish suggested activity.
I have made a list of activities, but I need a few more, particularly if the weather is as nasty as it often is. Here's my working list (some are from the list in the link and some are my own):
We do also light Advent lanterns every night during Advent and we have a liturgy that we say together that David came up with a couple of years ago.
The kids want to have an Advent calendar this year. The only trouble with that is that we celebrate the twelve days of Christmas by opening one package every morning. A couple of years ago when we had an Advent calendar (by Playmobil) it was just too many days of opening presents.
Then today (or yesterday) I received Kids Craft Weekly in my email inbox. This issue had a link to an Advent Activity Calendar from the Kiddley archives. This is it, folks! Essentially every day there is some small-ish suggested activity.
I have made a list of activities, but I need a few more, particularly if the weather is as nasty as it often is. Here's my working list (some are from the list in the link and some are my own):
- Paint everyone's toenails
- Make hot chocolate
- Bake cookies
- Build a fort
- Have a play bath
- Give everyone a wild hairstyle
- Go walk in the woods
- Take pictures of each other
- Play UNO (even Clara plays UNO)
- Make a giant picture
- Make paper snowflakes
- Write letters to far away friends
- Make a wind boat
- Thank someone for being nice
- Make a shining star
- Have pancakes for dinner
- Make fingerprint people and animals
- String cranberries for the tree outside (maybe not a good idea since there is a family of raccoons living next door)
- Dress fancy for dinner
- Play soccer
We do also light Advent lanterns every night during Advent and we have a liturgy that we say together that David came up with a couple of years ago.
Comments
-make paper chains
-make Peanut Butter Pinecones for birds
-Make salt dough ornaments
-Write a winter poem
-"To brighten someone's day, find toys to give away!"
-Sing Christmas Carols
-Walk/drive around to see Christmas lights
-Fill the table with candles and oil lamps and light them all at once!
-Make origami tree decorations
-Take old towels/linens to the animal shelter
-Practice (anonymous)random acts of kindness
I like your Advent ideas also.
Nadia
~Making cards for the neighbours in our complex
~Getting our Christmas tree
~Sorting thru our toys and giving some away
~Making teacher presents
Some ideas I liked that involved even less planning (since 37 days of specific things to do sounds like it could be a little much for me too...):
--getting out the Christmas books
--getting the Christmas tree
--gathering supplies for making presents...
i.e. things are we going to be doing anyway
Hope you are feeling better!
Catherine