We’ve got a fabric advent calendar that we use and every day the mousie moves closer to Christmas. I saw a neat idea on the net (I think it was my montessori journey’s blog) where they put a little chocolate nugget in each pocket. We won’t do that for many reasons, the main one is that some people’s mother would probably eat all the kids’ chocolate.
This year we’ve also got a non-traditional advent calendar. We’ve started this grass hair growing panda bear and hopefully by Christmas he’ll have some hair. Jaylene’s taking a picture of it every day.
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December 2, 2008 at 12:07 am
Lorna
We love your advent calendars Jaylene! Mousie is going on a very exciting journey. We are looking forward to seeing Panda grow his hair. Happy Advent from Snufkin and Moomintroll (those aren’t our real names!)
December 8, 2008 at 7:51 am
Bobbie
Love your advent calendar!! I love no chocolate ones!! I banned those lift the flap with a white pocked marked -who knows how long these things are made in advance- advent calendars!!
This year we made our own paper ones and insert a daily activity to be done and so far the kids are loving it!!
but a move a “something” closer to christmas would be even easier for Me!! wink wink