Thursday, November 18, 2010

Advent Calendars

I think I'm starting to collect advent calendars. I keep thinking of all these fun ideas and hearing about great ideas that others have done and I just have to make them... it will be a full time job just keeping up with all the advent calendars next month, but at least this way all 3 kids can rotate advent calendars and have something to take off or add every day:)

Here are a few of them:

This is 2 12x12 pages. You use an exacto knife to cute the windows open and then you have another 12x12 behind it so when you open the windows there are pictures of the kids, things to do like "take a Christmas picture" "share your favorite Christmas memory" "go look at Christmas lights" etc. Of course, all the windows can be personalized so you can have them say whatever you want.

This is the darling tree from total class creative. Same place I got the darling pumpkins. The idea with this one is that each day until Christmas the kids will add an ornament to the tree and by Christmas the tree will fully decorated with darling ornaments with the kids pictures on them. There are lots of other fun things you can do with these trees. Check out total class creative blog, they have super cute things.

These countdown blocks are also made with 2 12x12 pages and a 7 in 2x4 and 2 4x4 blocks. You can get the wood at Home Depot and then cut them to size.


This is a darling one, it's 2 12x12 pages. You glue the main page to a cookie sheet (found at the dollar store) and then cut out the 25 presents and put a magnet on the back and you're ready to go. My friend Michelle Bell a fellow HM Consultant came up with this brilliant idea:) Each day you take off a present and there is a number behind it. Then you just stick the present on the back of the cookie sheet so you don't lose them.. super cute, super easy!

My friend Janet Shaw gave me another brilliant idea today with this same cookie sheet idea, except it's with a mini muffin sheet. Then you can put a treat inside the space. I'm excited to make one and when I do I'll post pictures:)

1 comment:

Shelby said...

All of those are so cute! Thanks for sharing some really great ideas (and for making the tree darling)!
Shelby