help! I need more activities for my advent calendar
Here are the activities I used last year (some with added links to help you out) …
- decorate the Christmas tree
- make a Christmas milkshake
- read a Christmas book
- write a letter to Santa – if you are in Australia here are the details for posting your letter
- watch a Christmas movie
- go to Carols by Candlelight
- make the house smell like Christmas - try this Gumnut potpourri
- go and see Santa
- make your own flavour of ice-cream
- buy a gift for a child in need and put it under the wishing tree
- buy a new Christmas decoration (another family tradition of ours - to buy a decoration for each child each year, they will take these when they leave home)
- start a family puzzle
- make a Christmas CD/find some new Christmas music
- make some Christmas decorations – try some of the ideas in the sharing Christmas decorations roundup
- have a special breakfast (I’m thinking Christmas-shape pancakes)
- make Christmas treats (biscuits, chocolate balls or similar)
- take a drive to see Christmas lights
- wrap presents
- look under your pillow for a Christmas treat
- have a slideshow of 2010 photos
- take a family Christmas photo
- put out milk and biscuits for Santa
- go to playgroup Christmas party
- make gift tags/cards – try some of the ideas in the sharing Christmas – cards, gifts and wrapping roundup
- take silly Christmas photos
- hunt for signs of the season (more about this in a post soon)
- play Christmas games – such as the Christmas dice game I made last year or some of these games at Activity Village
- track Santa online on Christmas Eve at Norad tracks Santa
- making a Christmas tree and decorating it
- marshmallow Christmas puddings (with chocolate, jaffas and mint leaves)
- making paper cranes
- making a Christmas collage from magazine clippings
- have a treasure hunt (with picture clues and gold chocolate coins as the treasure)
Comments
Is there anywhere near you taking food donations for Christmas? Our local shopping centre management does a big food drive in December. Last year and the year before Annie and I went around Coles and she chose breakfast, lunch and dinner food (non perishable) for one family for Christmas.
You could do that on a smaller scale. Or donate food to the local animal shelter so the animals have something special for Christmas too.
It sure has been fun thinking up activities to keep us busy and thinking about giving during this season.
I really like your idea of the Gumnut potpourri.
See you at the conference!
Thread red and green straws to make a chain for the Christmas tree.
Make White Christmas or rocky road.
(There's a link to you in this post)