Tomorrow the month of December begins, along with one of my favorite holiday traditions: the advent calendar. Although the advent calendar that I remember as a child from an awesome teacher in elementary school will always remain my ideal; I have incorporated various ways to help my little one count down to Christmas. My newest way was inspired by a wonderful and talented blogger Allison from
Oopsey Daisy. I met her here in Phoenix this year at Creative Estates. I read books to Madison every night before bed so the idea of reading a different Christmas story every night to count down the days to Christmas was right up my alley!
I wrapped each Christmas book and attached a numbered tag on for the days. Allison also incorporated an activity to do each day related with the daily book but I'm not that prepared this year. Maybe next year~a girl can have a dream right?
I don't own 24 Christmas books so I went out today to used book stores and thrift stores to buy more. I also went to the library to borrow Christmas books too . The library books aren't due back until December 20th so that works. We will read the library books first. Of course, I will read Twas The Night Before Christmas on December 24th!
Another way I count down the days is with our Kurt S. Adler Snoman Advent calendar. Madison is old enough now to understand this tradition and can put the ornaments on the tree each day. I also will put a small treat inside the box to make it extra special.
Lastly, we have the Eric Carle's Dream Snow Pop Up Calendar. This is new this year too so I'm looking forward to Madison opening up a window each day to add a new decoration to this wonderful pop up scene.
I think I have enough ways to help with the question ~is it Christmas yet? What do you do to count down the days until Christmas?
Tomorrow the month of December begins, along with one of my favorite holiday traditions: the advent calendar. Although the advent calendar that I remember as a child from an awesome teacher in elementary school will always remain my ideal; I have incorporated various ways to help my little one count down to Christmas. My newest way was inspired by a wonderful and talented blogger Allison from Oopsey Daisy. I met her here in Phoenix this year at Creative Estates. I read books to Madison every night before bed so the idea of reading a different Christmas story every night to count down the days to Christmas was right up my alley!
I wrapped each Christmas book and attached a numbered tag on for the days. Allison also incorporated an activity to do each day related with the daily book but I'm not that prepared this year. Maybe next year~a girl can have a dream right?
I don't own 24 Christmas books so I went out today to used book stores and thrift stores to buy more. I also went to the library to borrow Christmas books too . The library books aren't due back until December 20th so that works. We will read the library books first. Of course, I will read Twas The Night Before Christmas on December 24th!
Another way I count down the days is with our Kurt S. Adler Snoman Advent calendar. Madison is old enough now to understand this tradition and can put the ornaments on the tree each day. I also will put a small treat inside the box to make it extra special.
Lastly, we have the Eric Carle's Dream Snow Pop Up Calendar. This is new this year too so I'm looking forward to Madison opening up a window each day to add a new decoration to this wonderful pop up scene.
I think I have enough ways to help with the question ~is it Christmas yet? What do you do to count down the days until Christmas?
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