Late for Advent

We made an Advent calendar today and opened the first 2 packages.  Better late than never I guess.  It is not glamorous but it should do the trick.  It's made of  cling wrap, left over wrapping ribbon, some sweets we scrounged up and some post it notes.  Each day the kids get either a Werther's candy or 3 mini marshmallows (they alternate each day) and a note with an instruction to do something to enjoy the season. It kind of looks like white and gold sausage links :o)

Here are the activities I wrote in each one:

1. Enjoy a Werthers candy and give your mommy a kiss
2. Make a snow angel
3. Make paper snow flakes to decorate your room and our windows
4. Enjoy the Parade of Lights (our home town Christmas parade)
5. Search for things in the Christmas See What I See book (we'll be traveling that day, so I wanted something they could do in the car).
6. Sip hot chocolate with marshmallows
7. Help decorate the house for Christmas (we'll be doing this at my Grandma's house so we'll see what she has in mind).
8. Help with Christmas Baking
9. Sing as many Christmas carols as you know
10. Build a Snowman
11. Make an ornament for the tree
12. Drink some egg nog
13. Set up our Christmas town
14. Set up Nativity scene
15. Deliver Christmas Cards
16. Act out the Christmas Story
17. Light candles and pray for friends & family
18. Make ice sculpture sun catchers
19. Build ginger bread houses/men
20. Watch a Christmas Classic
21. Go skating
22. Drive around and see the lights
23. Go tobogganing
24. Open one small present
25. Read the Christmas story

Some of these may need to be saved and done on days that are more convenient.  If the snow doesn't work to build a snowman we'll have to do it another day.  I'm excited to see if we can get all these events done in 23 more days.  It should be fun.  Now I'm off to take a picture of a snow angel...