- Shop for Christmas gifts for the children at The Haven
- Put up and decorate the tree (always on the 14th after Daddy's Birthday!!)
- Make mini gingerbread houses (a work in progress as we can't get graham crackers here and that was the idea that I saw....... watch this space!)
- Go Ice skating or to snow play, depending on deals and offers!
- Go for a walk to see the lighted houses near Granny and Grandpa's house
- Make marshmallows
- Make new ornaments for the tiny Christmas trees and decorate the trees
- Make ice-candles
- Make ice-cream cone Christmas trees to eat
- Treat the birds
- Decorate the Christmas cake
- m&m's Christmas story
- Christmas tree play dough
- Write letters to Santa (something for me, something for someone else, something for the world)
- Make reindeer food
- Learn a new Christmas carol
- Make hand print ornaments
- Make paper chains (we always do this, it's a tradition in our house!)
- Make lolly stick snowflakes for the walls
- Have a family pow-wow and say nice things about each other - write them down to keep!
- Make mince pies and give to the local people we know who are in need (Jack (92) is first on the list, he always carried a boneo in his pocket for our dog, and he was the only person she never barked at as she rushed out to sit and beg waiting for her treat then scuttled off again without a backward glance - pure cupboard love but we have come to love Jack and after a bout of pneumonia earlier this year, we no longer see him take his daily walk and we miss him!)
- Go to the Christmas tree festival at Church
- Make paper snowflakes
- Enjoy hot chocolate with all the trimmings!
I might pop the odd sweet or chocolate in there to make the children giggle, like red smarties for Rudolph's nose and chocolate coated raisins for reindeer poo! I'm really happy I did this this year and I'm looking forwards to it! Have fun making yours!
What a lovely idea! I think I love advent more than Christmas. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree Dana, I always get other things sorted so we can focus on enjoying advent together, we made a Jesse tree last year which was fun but I'm really looking forwards to this! Jen x
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