What did everyone have in their advent calendars today then?

[SnowMuchToBits]

For those who have the traditional ones with pictures -

I had a Santa, and ds had a Christmas pudding.

6yo DD:

1st
Playmobile one - a bird cage
Chocolate one - chocolate sweet; picture behind door - Hannah Montana singing

2nd
Playmobile one - a parrot
Chocolate one - chocolate star; picture behind door - words saying "Glam Rocker"

3rd
Playmobile one - a little flower bed with flowers in it
Chocolate one - chocolate star; picture behind door - Hannah Montana singing

today - 3rd Dec - a container - so I'm thinking myrrh,gold,frankinscence

1st dec xmas tree
2nd dec bauble
3rd dec xmas pudding.

I love the old fashioned picture calendars. They have to have lots of glitter on them though.

Today we had:-

Lego calendar - a small table, frying pan and mug (Lsgo man is now having a cup of tea)

Ds's calendar - a reindeer (1 point to him)
My calendar - a Victorian style picture of a girl in a red coat holding a snowball, with the following written underneath:-

"A Merry Christmas. 'Tis Christmas with the snow and holly, so everyone is bright and jolly." (no points to me)

dd had a holly wreath with a large red bow

Thank you Anna! ... ds & dd & I all think it so in the 'real spirit of' etc. I got one for dd's class too and it seems popular - sweet earnest 7-8 year old girls.

Yesterday was batricidal soap for under-resourced hospitals.
Today was some feed for African livestock. Apparently there is a baby chick one day.

Oh that's a brilliant idea - is it sufficiently non-religious to pass muster in my DD's French school? They do sell Christmas biscuits and have a Christmas tree and talk about FC, so it's not as if Christmas were a total no-go area... I love the "real spirit of" thing

Bink - thanks for linking that advent calendar.

Completely unreligious, save that no.24 is referential, being a little hat for a preemie baby.

Thank you for liking our calendar - I was a bit nervous I'd invite scorn for being over-earnest. As there is no chocolate at all involved

I think it's a great idea and have bookmarked it for next year.
DS1 would like it very much, having developed a social conscience fairly recently...

We have gone down the chocolate route this year, but what is fantastic about it is that, for the first time ever, DS2 (who has autism) has got the idea of advent calendars. Needs prompting, but will open the door himself. And this morning he asked DS1 for 'sweet' when he saw him opening his own. Yaaaay !

That's sounds just the ticket - will definitely put your advent calendar on my 2009 Christmas to do list.

We are currently having conversations in the Parents' Association about just how we can mark Christmas at school in an appropriately non-religious but also non-commercial way. It isn't easy and so far all we have really thought of is a toy collection for a children's hospital or orphanage.

ok - 4th December - an owl

4th December

Lego calendar - Lego girl minifigure with an ice cream.

Ds's calendar - a drum (no points)
My calendar - some dogs (no points)

4th December

arty - mistletoe
general - robin

We had ... a box of matches. Which seems faintly unecological: surely there is a more sustainable form of fire-starting tool - clockwork, or solarly energised, or something. There wasn't any helpful context about who/where it was going to help either. Fabulous principle as it is, it could do with a wee bit more mise-en-scene.

Now we have another calendar, submitted by FIL who is an emeritus person, from the Bodleian & featuring archetypes of children's vintage book design. So far we have had, among others: a snowball fight scene, confidently dated to 1862; and a mediaeval person warming its long bendy pale feet at a fireside.

(Advent calendars with footnotes.)

Bink, I think we've got the same one! Was it mistletoe today (Thursday)?

nothing as I haven't finished sewing it yet

today - 5th December - some sheep

Don't know yet dd1(2.8) does it at bedtime, otherwise she spends the whole day wanting to open all the doors.

Last nights was a fox (Xmas fox?!)

5th December -

Lego calaendar - a freezer with parasol above it (for yesterday's ice cream, I assume)
My calendar - some festive cats (no points)
Ds's calendar - a Santa (one point)

ds1 has a windsor castle (don't ask!) and today he had a corgi with a santa hat on he was most confused!

ds1 - barrel and planks of wood that together make a table (playmobil)

ds2 - picture of santa's festive bloomers

Friday
chocolate (hahahaha - DS doesn't like it so he shoves it in my mouth at 5.50!)
Playmobil - a little deer and a blobby think that I think is badger food

Ds hasn't opened today's yet, but so far he's had a candle, a dove, some holly and a shepherd.

Yes 80schick - mistletoe, & a languid faux Raphaelite angel today.

Iodine, in the other one.