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Our Advent Calendar this year

November 27, 2010 By Melanie Roberts 7 Comments

This morning I told you about Advent Calendars and what ours looked like last year, well I finished this years and thought I would share it real quick, too. Here is the Advent Calendar post if you like to check it out.
Each year I come up with different ideas for the calendar.
It’s so simple.
What you need:
  1. 23 Christmas Goodie bags with tie strings
  2. 24 little gifts, candies, toys ( I went to the Dollar spot and bought pencils, paper etc.)
  3. a Tub, bowl, basket anything to put the bags in
  4. a bigger item, could even be PJ’s, movie, DVD, Cd, coloring book etc., wrapped

How to make it:
  1. Fill each goodie bag, however you like
  2. In the bottom of the container put your “bigger ” gift, make sure it’ warped, on top add all the goodie bags.
  3. If you like, you can number each bag.
  4. That’s it, now each day your little one will pull a bag and start the count down to Christmas. Till he/she gets to the end and see’s the “bigger” present then it’s Christmas Eve….
  5. If you decide to add numbers, you can still put them all in randomly and let your little one look for the number each day, helps them start counting and number recognition as well…
  6. For the little, little ones I would leave the numbers off and just have them pick a baggie each day…

Merry Christmas

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Comments

  1. Grace says

    November 27, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    This is a great idea! Maybe I’ll give it a try.

    Fellow Blog Hopper:)

    Reply
  2. Marenda says

    November 28, 2010 at 6:52 am

    Love this idea. I really like it. Think I will try it this year.

    Reply
    • mausekind says

      November 28, 2010 at 7:03 am

      It is so much fun for the kids… and it can e soo cheap go to the Dollar store or add candy…. šŸ™‚ use your imagination…. would love to hear what you come up with

      Reply
  3. Donna D says

    August 26, 2011 at 10:26 am

    Love this idea. I have 15 grandkids, I would need a tub! lol
    Most of the time I hang extra candy canes on the tree for them to pick off when they visit, but this is a much better ideal! They would love it!
    Im going to do this fot them this year. Thank You for the idea.

    Reply
    • CrazyMom says

      August 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm

      You are soo welcome.. it is soo much fun :0)

      Reply
  4. Jessica P says

    December 23, 2011 at 2:08 am

    Wow what a cute idea! Your kids have the best Christmases EVER, I can tell šŸ™‚

    Reply

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  1. Our Advent Calendar says:
    November 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    […] our German tradition, we create an Advents Calendar, you can check out our previous year calendars HERE or HERE. This year I decided to do something a bit different. I went and bought Acrylic fillable […]

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