Christmas Activity Calendar

 Last year I had so much fun making an activity calendar for my girls that I decided to make it an annual tradition. 

This year's calendar is all finished and even though I made most of it, the girls were still able to add their own special touch.

I started by making a list of special activities to do with the girls

they are mostly holiday related activities like:

go see Christmas lights

visit Santa

and

make Christmas cookies

I gathered up some paint chips and wrote an activity on the back of each one

Then I stapled the paint chips into a chain

(just like the paint chip chain Melissa from The Chocolate Muffin Tree made)

Next, I cut out a Christmas tree shape from a cardboard box

I painted it dark green and then used light green to create the illusion of needles

When the paint was dry the girls completely covered the tree with glitter glue

  

Not only are the girls going to be able to cut one link of the chain down each day

but

I also printed out this fabulous list of holiday jokes from Cathy at Nuturestore 

bought a 25 piece puzzle 

(I'm the only one that knows what the picture is) 

to give them a piece each day

and 

have holiday stickers for the girls to place on the tree each day

I can't wait to see what it looks like with all the stickers on it

I'm really excited for the calendar this year, I have a lot of fun activities planned.

Be sure to follow along with the calendar here

I will be blogging about each day starting December 1! 

Happy Holidays!

Linked to:

Critters&Crayons Homemade Christmas Link Party

The Sunday Showcase
Monday Madness