Dec. 12, 2008 - Some of our favorite ways to count down to Christmas
Herre are some more of our favorite countdown ideas....
Last year, I saw this idea, so it isn't a real old idea in our house, but how about singing a Christmas Carol everyday til Christmas? I actually wrote down the titles and put them in our advent calendar, along with an activity a day. I'm hoping the girls will enjoy it.
I just printed out the carols from my Advent Basket of Joy file (another post!). I have 26 of them typed and beautiful, even dated, so we say, "It's Dec. 3rd, so we need to sing *O Little Town of Bethleham.*', and so on.
I'm going to put them in our Hymn Binder under Christmas to make it easy to find them and to use them.
A friend was telling me her countdown idea. She has 3 different trees with numbered ornaments. One is felt, another paper and the third is an actual little tree with numbered ornaments. She has 3 children, so that is why she has three trees. Each day, her children love putting their ornament on their tree. I thought that was a pretty neat idea.
Oh, and one more thing. I have been putting together an Advent Basket of Joy. One of my daughters was helping me wrap presents and said, "Wow, this would be fun. I wish someone would make it for us." Smile
So, I thought about it - I'm not doing a little gift every day, but I have bought a few things through the year and this December, that would be good to use. I added them into our Advent Calendar, too. Today is the 11th, and we will be doing Christmas Mad Libs. Each of them gets a book today. I also have a couple ornament kits, a small box of chocolates and fuzzy Christmas Stickers to color. Nothing big, but just a little something to make them smile.
By the way, if you don't have any Mad Libs books bought (I usually get ours through Scholastic - they are great for grammar practice), go here Mad Libs Online to print some out.
