Activity Advent Calendar

A friend of mine on facebook posted this idea last week and I've been working away on my own activity advent calendar ever since. I had pictured creating something simple - paper notes clipped to a string with clothespins. However, I decided to act on the crafty urges that usually hit me around Christmas time, and before I knew it I had embarked on my most ambitious hand-stitched craft ever!

I really wanted to make a calendar that was focused more on giving than receiving, so here are the 25 things I came up with.

1. Write a letter to Santa (Send to: Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0, Canada and he'll write back! No postage required!)
2. Put up Christmas decorations
3. Write and mail Christmas cards to your friends and family
4. Make your own Christmas board game 
5. Open new Christmas pajamas
6. Make a gingerbread house
7. Decorate our Christmas tree
8. Bake Christmas cookies for your friends and neighbours
9. Deliver cookies
10. Make a Christmas gift for your grandparents
11. Make room for new toys! Pack up toys you don't play with anymore and donate them.
12. Watch a Christmas movie
13. Deliver mini candy canes to Senior's home
14. Invite friends over for apple cider and Christmas board game - Annapolis Royal
15. Breakfast with Santa - Clementsport Legion
16. Christmas shopping for your cousins
17. Make your own snow globes
18. Look for Christmas books at the library
19. Wrap presents
20. Home for the holidays! Make a Christmas craft on the ferry
21. Family Christmas carol sing-a-long
22. Go skating
23. Invite friends over for a Christmas party - Fredericton
24. Christmas Eve! Hang up your stocking and make cookies for Santa
25. Merry Christmas!