While we are not religious, we do have an advent calendar. Or, a countdown to Christmas calendar, I guess you could say. It's the same one that hung on the wall when I was a kid. It has a pocket for the 24 days before Christmas and traditionally, it had little candy bars in every pocket. Since we don't let the kids eat candy, I decided this year to put a little Christmas activity in each pocket. Clearly, some of these are super basic, but here's what I came up with. These aren't in any order, I will order them up according to TV programming schedules, travel plans, etc. As they get older, I hope to add more service related ones, but at 1 and 3 years old, I don't think they would get it. Day 1 will be meeting our elf, as rumor has it an "Elf on the Shelf" will be joining our family this year. And, hopefully the tree is going up on Day 2.
Let the season begin!
2. Watch Charlie Brown Christmas.
3. Watch Frosty the Snowman.
4. Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
5. Watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
6. Visit family for Richmond Christmas.
7. Sit on Santa's lap.
8. Take a walk to see Christmas lights.
9. Make sugar cookies.
10. Go to the Rolesville Christmas parade.
11. Have appetizers for dinner, with hot chocolate and Dunkin' Donuts for dessert.
12. Buy your sibling a Christmas gift.
13. Make an ornament for the tree.
14. Listen to Christmas music with dinner.
15. Have snowman pancakes for breakfast.
16. Make reindeer food.
17. Decorate a gingerbread house.
18. Read Christmas stories before bed.
19. Meet an elf from the North Pole.
20. Decorate the tree.
21. Do a Christmas craft.
22. Learn a Christmas carol and Skype with the grandparents and sing it to them.
23. Wear Christmas pajamas to bed.
24. Color a picture for Santa.
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