Advent Activities

Whilst it's fun to just open the advent calender and light the candles why not come up with a list of advent activities that your can do each day together in the lead up to Christmas.....

I have been looking for ideas....... here are a few of my favourite..... click on the link for each one to go to their blogs....

and finally......

What ever you choose today have a great advent.....

Advent Candle Art

I thought today we would have a go at decorating our own advent candles - we will need four, one for each advent weekend before Christmas.

I had a look on the net, go old google, and found some great ideas. I decided to follow this post from redtedart

Why don't you all a have a go you've go a few days to get ready!

Advent Calender Fillers

Well we've made our calender, or come up with a design idea anyway, so now what are we going to put in it?

Here are a few simple ideas that I have found .....

you could add finger puppets......

or Lego men.......

or fun socks.......

a new Christmas tree decoration for each day.....

buy one puzzle and add a few pieces for each day......

Hide a gift or two and then make a treasure map. Cut the map into 24 pieces so they get 

one part of the map each day and a big treasure hunt on the 24th....

advent promises

Hope this has given you some ideas that not just a chocolate each day........

Kids Crafts - Advent

Children love the anticipation of Christmas and there is nothing more exciting than counting down the days leading up to that big event......

So instead of buying a chocolate filled Advent Calendar why not make your own - with the kids help of course......

Here are a few easy but effective ideas to inspire you that you can all make leading up to the start of Advent...

all these ideas are really simple and you probably have most of the materials to hand - obviously minus the gifts inside.......

if you want more ideas check out pinterest there's loads of ideas there......