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Which festive moment are your children most excited about? Tell Cadbury and you could win a £200 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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AngelieMumsnet · 01/12/2015 11:41

With Cadbury launching their biggest ever advent calendar, Cadbury would like to know which moment over the festive period your DCs are most excited about.

Here's what they say "This year we’re launching Cadbury’s biggest ever advent calendar and setting out to bring even more joy to the countdown this Christmas. 24 trucks, 24 doors, opening daily in 24 different locations, we’re ringing joyful festive surprises to the nation on the countdown to Christmas. While we’re counting down, we’re also keen to hear from Mumsnetters about which festive moment your kids can't wait for"

Find out about the Cadbury advent calendar by watching the video below:

So which festive moment are your DCs most excited about? You might be thrilled at the prospect of some time relaxing at home with your family, but if you asked your children - what would their response be? Perhaps they're dying to decorate the Christmas tree? Or take centre stage at their school nativity play? We're looking for the moments and treats that make Christmas for them, alongside the thrillingness of ripping wrapping off (lots of) presents.

Whichever festive moment your DCs can't wait for, Cadbury would love to hear about it.

Everyone who posts a comment will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £200 Love2Shop voucher.

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Hoon · 02/12/2015 20:27

Amazingly my 6 year old dd keeps saying how excited she is about Christmas and snuggling in our bed first thing in the morning. I think she really means that she is excited to open her Christmas stocking presents which we normally do at the crack of dawn in bed as we can't manage to move yet, but its making me feel warm and gooey that she enjoys it so much.

missp0603 · 02/12/2015 20:36

Everyday he is so excited to open a drawer on his advent truck and find a chocolate and maybe a note from the elves which lead him on a treasure hunt to find a bug!

chumbler · 02/12/2015 20:38

My baby was really excited to choose something for the tree!

vivianallman · 02/12/2015 20:46

getting the tree up just after the eldest birthday as always been a tradition... so that gets the juices flowing and we have a tree assembling day when all the trees are sorted with their specific boxes of baubles and we decorate them all... we also have a special day when the garden lights are put out.... and then... it's advent and the cadburys chocolate advent calendar is out and ready to be opened on the 1st and then every day until christmas day.. it all goes on and on until christmas eve the plate is put out for santa with his bar of cadburys fruit and nut :) his can of lager and mince pie and carrots for the reindeers..... awesome... we love it...

HappyMum4 · 02/12/2015 20:47

My four are most looking forward to carols on the green in the village we live in, last year they brought a real donkey and the children could have rides! We have hot chocolate (or a cheeky mulled wine!) and mince pies, then the local vicar starts the carolling. Santa comes thanks to The Lions.

CombineBananaFister · 02/12/2015 20:50

He's looking forward to his xmas show at school. He loves singing and dancing so this gives him an excuse (not that he should need one) to sing his little heart out. What he lacks in talent he makes up for enthusiasm Grin

AbeSaidYes · 02/12/2015 20:54

Dad (4) says he sometimes forgets to wash his hands, but always remembers to use the towel and never forgets his lines... 'We are the three Kings'. He is most looking forward to the school concert and all the singing. Also the making of mince pies.

His birthday is three days before Christmas so it's basically party central at our house for a week.

BabyGanoush · 02/12/2015 20:59

Opening their stockings and starting the day with chocolate.

I love stockings too, it takes me ages to put them together and find enough things to put in, but so worth it!

StuffYouAllInTheCrust · 02/12/2015 21:03

My eldest DD is excited for our Christmas Eve 'picmic' as she likes to call it. We do a mini hot buffet and treats but put a blanket on the floor and eat off paper plates, she loves it! My youngest DD (2) doesn't understand Christmas yet but is very excited about her advent calendar - anything chocolate related will keep her happy! We're also doing a Christmas Eve box this year, pj's, chocolate, Christmas movie and reindeer food to sprinkle on the lawn - but it's me that's excited for that! Grin

boo36 · 02/12/2015 21:19

My three children can't wait to decorate the Christmas tree!

mumblebumble · 02/12/2015 21:19

Haha DS is all about the presents! This is his first year where he's written a christmas list and has asked for lots of tat I wouldn't normally buy him Grin

TheSpottedZebra · 02/12/2015 21:20

(Apart from presents)

They're really looking forward to the whole family being round the dinner table, and us 'doing cheers', and having crackers and party poppers. They like food and noise, basically.

Loula117 · 02/12/2015 21:32

Mine also very excited by the opening of the advent calendar, and looking forward to the first mince pies. We all LOVE the choosing and putting up of the tree, will probably be weekend after this. I have a gazillion baubles, and they get the wooden and metal ones, whereas I put up my vintage glass ones.

AGrinWithoutACat · 02/12/2015 21:38

The DCs love getting the tree out and decorating the house, last year we bought some lights for the Windows in their bedrooms which they love. This year we are adding some solar lights in the garden and might get curtain lights for the living room window and some led candles

They adore all of our Christmas rituals, last year we had a Lego advent calendar for the first time which through the magic of Christmas they shared really well so we are repeating that this year

Gingerbread, sweets, stockings, making gifts & decorations - it's all good [santa]

mummyeme · 02/12/2015 21:40

My dd (11) can't wait to get the Christmas tree! It will definitely be the biggest one there and we'll both be holding our breaths in hope that it's not too tall. Hanging chocolate decorations are a must and I'm sure there'll be dangling wrappers carefully shaped and filled to look like they've never been touched when really she had a sudden impulse to eat one when no one could see (don't know where she'd get that from ;)

MadameJosephine · 02/12/2015 21:45

My 3yo DD is really excited about her nursery nativity play. She's going to be the 'rater' (narrator) and has been learning her lines every evening (it's not until 15 dec so I may tire of them a bit by then but she is super cute). She's also looking forward to her big brother coming home from uni for Christmas. We decorated the tree last night with him looking on and directing operations over Skype, the wonders of modern technology!

QuickQuickSloe · 02/12/2015 21:51

Ice skating on Christmas Eve. Last year the space station flew over and he was convinced it was Santa!

gazzalw · 02/12/2015 22:05

Putting up the Christmas tree, breaking up from school for Christmas AND seeing a panto

muckprincess80 · 02/12/2015 22:06

This year my boys are 2 & 4 and so everything is magical to them. We have had the decs up since the last weekend in Nov and are going away for a tots festive break the week before crimbo and secretly mum and dad are more excited than the boys

Poppiesway · 02/12/2015 22:13

The bag of chocolate coins in the bottom of ds2's stocking.. He's already eyeing them up in supermarket. I would say i don't know why he has such a thing for them.. But I can remember my dgp giving me a bag of chocolate coins when I was his age, and they were fabulous. Christmas isn't Christmas without a bag of chocolate coins in the bottom of my DC stockings!!Xmas Blush

duggerlugs · 02/12/2015 22:17

My 14 month old has discovered the advent calendar doesn't just have one chocolate. I am looking forward to seeing if it lasts. Also looking forward to see how many Christmas ornaments survive...Two down already and tree went up yesterday.

NunoBettencourt · 02/12/2015 22:19

Looking forward to decorating the tree, DS has a birthday before Xmas so excited for that at the moment. Plus the new Star Wars film comes out soon so that's on the list!

They also love making mince pies for us to scoff warm out the oven.

Then Christmas Eve and our watching polar express tradition. Plus sending the Christmas lists for Santa up the chimney. And of course the presents!

leanneth · 02/12/2015 22:19

Ds is very excited about his nativity performance! He's been practising singing every day!

ScarlettDarling · 02/12/2015 22:27

Scattering magic dust on the driveway on Christmas eve to help Santa find our house. Then bath and new pyjamas before getting out Santa's treat and a carrot for Rudolph!

Muchtoomuchtodo · 02/12/2015 22:50

Ours love going to get the tree. We go to a place where we pick it, the. It gets sawn down and we take it home so it's really fresh.
Once we're home I put the Christmas CD's on and start singing (which they claim to hate but I know otherwise Xmas Wink ) while we decorate the tree and the house.

Writing to Santa is a big thing and getting letters back is still very exciting (they're 7 and 10 now)

Last year seeing the ISS fly over was great - ds1 was starting to waver in his belief and this was perfect timing!