Advent Calendar

This year I took on a great idea I read about in a magazine. Instead of having a traditional advent calendar with candy treats, we have come up with 24 activities. The first day was a bust because Maya was sick, however, we have had so much fun. So far we watched a Christmas movie, decorated the Christmas tree, made a Gingerbread house, done a Christmas craft, made Snowman pancakes, gone to see Santa, gone to a Christmas party and wrote a letter to Santa. Tonight is day 9 (we try to do our activity together each night) and it looks like we will be making a card for a friend. Maya has loved finding the 'magical' piece of paper that appears in our advent calendar each day to see what we are going to do. I sneak it in during nap time and tell her the elves came by. Love this idea!