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Ideas to go in Advent Calendar Please

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PeekABooPinky101 · 23/10/2015 18:30

Apologies in advance, as I am sure this has been done before, I've had a quick look but couldn't see it.

Dd is 2.5 at Christmas, I've made her an advent calendar. I don't want to fill it with just chocolate - I've got some nice tags and ribbon to pop in the non chocolate pouches.
What can I put on them?

I've done a letter for Santa one, a Christmas Eve one, I'll do one for going to see Santa when I figure out whenwe are going " and a couple of other general ones to fit in with the lead up to Christmas - but what else can I do wise and experienced world of mn.

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BiddyPop · 28/10/2015 09:30

I do free printable colouring sheets (and now activity sheets as DD is older) from the net for some days.

Other activities include:

Make a paper chain for the hall/your bedroom

Make a Christmas Card each for your Grandparents

Do a tidy out of the toys with Mum, to throw out broken things and make space for any presents you are lucky enough to get

Make a pomander (I put holes in the orange with a skewer and let her have a bowl of cloves to stick in)

Make Christmas cookies together

Have a Christmas picnic - watching a dvd in the sitting room with a carpet picnic (popcorn, hot choc and curled up under a duvet)

Go see Santa

Go to do your Christmas shopping and see the "Live Crib"

Make potato print wrapping paper

Make/assemble and decorate a ginger bread house (Ikea do great kits - its more about making a great mess and eating sweets in our house than creating art!)

Buy the tree

Decorate the tree

Visit Auntie X to deliver presents

Go for a walk in the woods to see the birds and animals and trees in winter (and collect pine cones/holly etc for decorating/crafting)

Make some crackers using a kit/toilet rolls

Learn a new Christmas song or joke

Go for a walk with a torch/drive in the car to see the Christmas lights nearby (pick a route in advance to get the well-decorated houses locally)

Make a bookmark (Santa always brings a book in our house)

Make paper snowflakes

Tidy your room/make your bed yourself (or help Mum)

Write to Santa

Help with the housework day

Wrap up all your presents (from the child - Dad may need to take 5 minutes to be involved in wrapping yours!)

A couple of days, I would do a treasure hunt around the house for a small present - DD loves chasing around hunting for it!

I don't do ALL of those every year, but I keep a list of ideas so that I can have a few things to pick between on different days, to suit the weather and whatever else is going on. Some are pure fun and Christmas magic, some are more prosaic but part of getting ready for Christmas and DD was always happy to do them in that context.

BiddyPop · 28/10/2015 09:30

Help Mum post the cards today

BiddyPop · 28/10/2015 09:35

On Christmas Eve, it included:
Hang your stocking and track Santa on Norad or SantaUpdate.com
And to help light the Christmas candle (youngest in the household does that job)

nocutsnobuttsnococonuts · 28/10/2015 11:16

im also doing tsum tsum's in the advent calendar this year (bulk bought loads when disney store had a 20% off code. might mix it up with other bits too as dont have enough for 1 each every day ... maybe some of the squishy ones from the entertainer too.

previous years ive done moshi monster figures and lego figures. best bit was when dd tried to take a bite out of the moshi monsters as she thought it was chocolate!! Grin

PeekABooPinky101 · 28/10/2015 13:37

Brilliant - thank you all! Must remember to make a not of these for years to come too!!

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