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.....

Shadow Puppets

I love a good puppet show and when I was a kid I used to make loads of shadow puppets and patterns on the wall. My step son's also loved it and we would spend hours making cutouts for a play on a wet day....

It's really easy and fun way of pretend play, making up stories and putting on a show with the kids for family & friends - you can even make popcorn & 'sell' tickets for the event to make it all a bit more fun.....

Check out this link for some great ideas......

Egg Box Sea Life

This little guy is really cool

We love all things related to the sea in our family - especially rock pooling so these little creatures were a great fun project to do.

Really easy to make and it encouraged some fun pretend play

With a bit of imagination you can make a whole 'rock pool full' of little critters.....

Here's the link to make these at practical parenting