If your kids are like mine, they are already asking, "How many days till Christmas?" Of course, a traditional way to count down is to use a lovely advent calendar with little windows to open each day. For some reason this has never worked for us. Either I forget to buy a calendar, or the windows get torn off, or we forget to check it each day.
I've seen some beautiful ideas for homemade alternatives around the blogosphere that range from 24 envelopes with a holiday activity inside, to 24 stockings, and so on.
However, I'm into easy. Simple. When I make things too complicated, they just don't get done. So I'm recycling the paper chain idea. Each of my kids made a paper chain with 24 links, out of old wrapping paper. Each day during December they get to tear a chain off, and they have a visual idea of how many more days till Christmas.
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I LOVE the idea of Jesse Tree. and I can also remmeber enjoying, growing up, turning our toys into the part of "acting out" the Christmas story.
So I wonder if toys can be used the ame way for the Jesse Tree. Finding something every day to represent that day's subject, etc.
Hmmmm...I hadn't even thought of a Jesse Tree. We may have to try that next year.
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