Happy December! Can you believe it? The fall was beautiful and it went by so fast! We are busy: still moving into our new house and preparing for our new baby who will join our family in just three short months!
Since today is the first day of December, it was the first day to put our Christmas Countdown, or Advent Calendar, to use! The boys were so excited when they woke up! Of course, they would love to go through each day this morning and enjoy all the fun and treats. Waiting each day will be the hard part!
With our life circumstances feeling super crazy, this is an especially (un)crafty project! I pulled out all the Christmas and winter-themed books (about 40 in total - whoa!) and wrote the titles on popsicle sticks. The sticks fit well in the felt calendar I made a couple years ago.
This project took over the dining room table for a couple days.
I wrote the titles on each stick, leaving room at the end for a treat!
Then I wrapped up all the books in some wrapping paper from the Target $1 Spot. I used 4 rolls to wrap all the books. Each book is numbered so when the boys take the sticks out of the "December 3" pocket, they can find the books with a "3" in the basket under the tree.
2 comments:
Your mama was telling me about this idea! I love it, but I'm pretty sure we don't have that many Christmas books :) I bet the boys will love it! Oli is loving Elf even more this year...how about your boys? XO
yes! the return of "zippy" has been an exciting couple days here! so fun! hope all is well with your sweet family, ang!
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