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Wednesday 30 November 2011

An Advent Calendar

This year we have a new family tradition - a homemade advent calendar. In past years we have done the store bought chocolate advent, and last year Master D was over it in about 4 days (and did I mention, it was chocolate?!).

For our new advent calendar I found some cute lil envelopes and stenciled on the numbers.


Next we drew pictures incorporating the numbers (or tried to anyway!). We were inspired to try this by some of the beautiful Waldorf alphabets we have seen.


Husband of mine drew some lovely pictures, but sort of forgot about the whole - Christmas themed thing??? Well they look lovely anyway!


In each envelope there is a slip of paper, mostly cut from Christmas cards from last year, with an activity.


We've included things like writing to Santa, Christmas crafts & baking, making our gingerbread house and many others.


To put it all together I strung up some wool in the shape of a Christmas tree and pegged the envelopes on.


We are so looking forward to our Christmas countdown!

Warm wishes, Kelly

10 comments:

  1. Carrie30 November 2011 at 13:20

    What a wonderful idea! I love how it incorporated the whole family.

    Just wanted to let you know that I'm passing on another award to you. Check it out at http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/another-award.html. Hope all is well!!

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  2. Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com)1 December 2011 at 11:56

    Super cute! I love the originality =-) Thanks for linking up to TGIF! See you next week,
    Beth =-)

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  3. Anya2 December 2011 at 18:10

    Home made calendars are the best! We are doing one this year too, kids love it :)

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  4. no spring chicken2 December 2011 at 19:11

    So simple, yet so special...

    Blessings, Debbie

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  5. Kelly @ Here Comes the Sun3 December 2011 at 05:39

    I love this idea! I always have big plans to make our advent calendar but we still have a store-bought one. Thanks for linking up to Fabulous Friday!

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  6. Carrie3 December 2011 at 11:56

    Thank you for sharing yet another wonderful idea at Sharing Saturday!

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  7. Jaime3 December 2011 at 15:26

    It's all just so very cute. The envelopes. The number-pictures. The big star. All of it. I really like the idea of just having activities.

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  8. Happy Whimsical Hearts3 December 2011 at 16:21

    Thank you everyone for your lovely comments :-)warm wishes, Kelly

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  9. April's Homemaking4 December 2011 at 16:53

    What a great idea to use envelopes, I love the way it turned out. My kids are teens now, and we are still doing the chocolate sort. I love the idea of writing activities in the envelope, what fun this would be to make!

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  10. Unknown5 December 2011 at 01:34

    That is so fun!! We do an activity each day too, but our papers just go in a storebought calendar. I love your homemade one...I especially like how you incorporated the numbers into the wintery pictures! Thanks for linking it to Shine on Fridays!

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