Advent should be a time full of enjoyment and time for the ones you love, and not money worries and stress. Whenever I have given the children advent calendars with a gift every day, they have started getting higher and higher expectations to the gifts, and let's face it. They have enough plastic toys that have only been played with once.
Here are some ideas for an activity calendar that both will save money, but also bring back the joy. Make sure to time the activities with your schedules, so you don't put time consuming activities on busy days.
Fun and games
- Game night
- Play Jenga or another game
- Children decides day
- Treasure hunt
- Play Chubby bunny - who can fit the most marshmallows in their mouth
- Practice Christmas carols
- Money collector - hide lots of gold coins and let them find them
- Have fondue
- Write letters to Santa
- Read a Christmas story
- Have a gelli baff (slimy bath)
- Lego night - kids and adults build something together
- Movie night
- Have a carnival - everybody dress up
Decorate
- Decorate the Christmas tree
- Decorate your own room
- Decorate your own window
- Wrap presents
Go out...
- Go to the library and borrow some Christmas books
- Have a picnic in the forest
- Build a snow man
- Go to a Christmas market
- Go to a playground
- See a Christmas play
- Go for a sleigh ride
- Watch a Christmas movie at the cinema
- Go to the swimming pool
- Go to a Christmas concert
- Blow ice soap bubbles - if the weather is cold enough
- Go for a flashlight walk
- Drive on a light safari - see who has got the nicest Christmas decorations
- Go skating or skiing
- Make a snow lantern
- Go shopping for Christmas gifts
- Play hide and go seek outside
- Make dinner on a camp fire
- Go have dinner/lunch in a restaurant/cafe
- Visit Santa
Make and bake
- Make Christmas paper with a potato stamp
- Make bath bombs
- Make a desert
- Make Christmas cards
- Bake cookies
- Make a gingerbread house
- Make a shrink plastic keyring
- Make gift tags
- Homemade bird food ornaments
- Make bead necklaces
- Make marsipan
- Make hot chocolate
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