After years of searching, I've finally found a wooden Advent Calender that I am in love with!!!
Advent Calendar
Now to fill it! As the boys are still young for little toys like yoyos, lollies/chocolates, activities like Christmas light watching (the boys are in bed before it's dark!), this is my 25 days of Christmas advent Calender activities suitable for 15 month old toddlers (and the family)!!
1. Take photos with Santa
2. Start wearing Christmas Pyjamas
3. Finger paint Christmas cards/wrapping paper
4. Read Christmas stories
5. Feed the birds some bird seed
6. Make salt dough hand print Christmas ornaments
Non Thermomix - http://www.mommymoment.ca/2013/04/salt-dough-handprint.html
Thermomix - http://www.trtlmt.com.au/salt-dough/
7. Sing and dance to Christmas carols
8. Take Christmas themed photos at home
9. Make homemade hot chocolate with marshmallows (their first taste of hot chocolate!) https://thermobexta.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/thermobextas-heartwarming-hot-chocolate/
10. Check out Christmas displays at a shopping centre
11. Stocking game - place toys in Christmas stockings and get them to pull them out one by one to play with
12. Have a picnic in the backyard with Christmas themed food
13. Go the beach and make sandcastles
14. Make little canvas paintings for presents - use painters tape, and tape a shape/initial on a canvas, and finger print on top - when dry, peel off the painters tape!
15. Play with bubbles
17. Make Christmas shapes out of red and green playdough
18. Feed the fish some bread
19. Run in the sprinklers in the garden
20. Play with Christmas stickers
22. Play with red and green balloons
23. Tree/Star shaped pancakes for breakfast
24. Watch a Christmas themed movie as a family with popcorn
25. Take family photos in front of the tree and open presents!!
I cut out little cards to write the activities on to put inside the Advent Calendar boxes - Christmas shapes - I placed 3 colours of paper together and cut them together once to save time!
Write the No.'s 1 to 25 onto the shapes
Write down the activities (see my list above)
Place them in the corresponding box
Advent Calendar all ready to go for December!!
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