Dare I say it - Christmas isn't that far away! If you are anything like me, that is very exciting! If you are a bit of a grinch, feel free to book mark this page to read in early December :-) I love Christmas and always have. It may have something to do with the fact that it is my birthday 2 days before Christmas as well, so it has always been my favourite time of the year.
This year I have decided that we needed a new kind of countdown to Christmas in our house - when they were little we had a tree that had little doors on it, and each day they could open a door and hang the little bell from it on the tree, this worked well with one toddler and one baby but as soon as they could argue about whose turn it was it kinda all fell over!
This year, I plan to have each envelope to have an activity or fun thing to do/look forward to for each day.
All the items were easily available - I did make the little envelopes, but I'm sure they would be easy to source. The frame is a cheap photo frame from Kmart, the butchers twine is from Spotlight, the 1-25 cards and the stick on decals are from The Stationary Warehouse and the little pegs are from Lincraft. I'm sure you could find these items in many other stores as well.
Ideas for the cards on the inside:
Help ice the Christmas cake
Make palmier hearts for after the candle light carol
service tonight (a Christmas eve Tradition in our family)
Make some invites and plan a Christmas
party (I have pre-invited the parents of this party, so they already have it booked in, so the fact that they get 4 days notice from the invites is ok)
Make a cinnamon ornaments wreath for the front hall way
Make the family and friends Christmas cards
Paint/stamp some brown paper to make our own Christmas paper
Make food presents for the Grandparents/Aunts/Uncles
Hide Rudolf's nose – ongoing until
Christmas eve (a game where you hide a red ball in the house, and the first person to find it hides it somewhere else)
Bake some rice krispie ornament treats
Make gingerbread houses
Put up the Christmas tree and decorate it
Make something to wear to the Santa
parade
Host a Christmas party for our friends
Flour fight! We don't get snow at this time of year, so why not get messy with flour?
Santa beards with shaving foam and take some photos!
Family picnic under the Christmas tree
and read the Christmas story under the tree
Toast some marshmallows
Do you have any family traditions you would like to share that I could add to this list??
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