I love it! I will hang it on the mantle in between our regular stockings. I bought a few treats to sneak in on some of the less-exciting days - mini candy-canes, small bags of gummy treats, etc. There will also be occasional days that have small presents associated with them. For example, I'm thinking Day 1 might involve some new X-mas books. And for the "Christmas dance party" day, I found a Christmas sing-a-long DVD with songs from the classic Christmas movies (Rudolph, Frosty, etc.). I've been scouring the internets for ideas, and here is the list I came up with so far - obviously I'll need to sit down with our calendar and narrow it down.
- Have hot chocolate with all the fixings
- Write and mail letters to Santa
- Use puppets to tell Christmas bedtime story
- Special food (e.g., chocolate chip pancakes or other big breakfast, etc.)
- Make decorations for the tree
- Drink hot chocolate from Xmas mugs
- take a picture in our santa/elf hats
- Have a camp out /indoor picnic around the christmas tree
- Wrap a toy and take it to a charity christmas tree
- Make handmade something for relatives (crafts) - cards or crafts to mail to family
- Christmas dance party
- Christmas movies
- Wildlife park
- Walk/Drive to see the Christmas lights (drive in PJs with hot chocolate/apple cider)
- Special christmas Eve activities (open new PJs, put out reindeer food, cookies for santa, etc.)
- visiting particular people or having people over
- make/decorate sugar cookies
- put up tree/christmas decorations
- make paper snowflakes (and decorate the house/windows with them?)
- wrap presents or prep daycare teacher presents
- christmas craft/collage/coloring pages
- special activities (library, x-mas parties, etc.)
- some kind of visiting/give-aways to neighbours, family, etc. (ornaments, cookies, etc.)
- christmas picture with santa at the mall
- food to food bank
- skating
- santa claus parades?
- make a gingerbread house
- make x-mas birdfeeders
- winter walk with hot chocolate or apple cider
- Big Man's birthday/birthday party
- go to the bookstore and pick out a new christmas book
- make christmas rice krispie squares
- family swim
- go to the video store to rent a christmas movie
- get christmas movies/books from the library
- special Dec 1 gift (new Xmas book?)
I freaking love this idea. I am with you on the icky chocolate thing. Costco sells Lindor ones but really this idea is so much better. I am going to start on this tonight. Thanks!
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