DIY Saturday: Christmas Advent Calendar

Can you believe tomorrow is December 1st!? We are super excited! Our Christmas shopping is just about done. Now I am just waiting for a quite night with my husband to put some Christmas music on, drink some hot chocolate or egg nog and get wrapping! Our tradition is to decorate the Sunday after Thanksgiving, so that is what we will be doing tomorrow! Last year we also did an activity advent calendar and had so much fun with it that we decided to put it on our lists of traditions. I finalized our activity list the other night. Some things are special to Utah, but I thought I would share it with you! I cut my envelopes out from my Silhouette Cameo and then print out each activity to put in each envelope, clothes pin them to a ribbon and viola! (I will add a picture tomorrow once it is hanging) I realize not everyone has a cutting machine... any craft store or scrapbook carries cute envelopes or you can pick up some cute scrapbook paper and make your own... here is a link to a tutorial for handmade envelopes:

http://whoopsiedaisiesdays.blogspot.com/2008/08/free-handmade-envelope-tutorial.html

or these may be other good options as well...

Advent Activities: 

Lights on Temple Square

Decorate edible Christmas Trees

Candy Cane Hunt

Deliver Neighbor Gifts

Sing Christmas Songs around the Christmas Tree

Grand America Window Displays

Live Nativity

Make paper crowns and talk about the 

wise men and the gifts they brought Jesus.

String a popcorn garland for the tree.

drive around to look at the Christmas lights- don’t forget the hot chocolate

dance party to Christmas Music

drink hot chocolate and stir with candy canes

Make a snow globe

Elves at Gardner Village 

Santa Train at Heber Valley Railway 

Live Reindeer at Thanksgiving Point

Christmas Carol Sing Along Energy Solutions Arena

picture with Santa at Trolley Square

perform a random act of kindness

tell the christmas story using the toy nativity

wrap a christmas gift 

Make a birthday cake for Jesus

Christmas Party with the cousins 

Make gingerbread playdough 

bake cookies for Santa & read The Night Before Christmas 

Other Christmas activities:

Check out and read Christmas Stories

“Paint” the snow

have a snowball fight

make a snowman

watch a Christmas movie

hand & footprint reindeer

make an ornament 

paint wrapping paper (butcher paper to be used to wrap)

paint the snow