Advent Activities

The last 2 years from December 1st through the 24th we have done an advent calendar.  It gets exhausting trying to do something every day with the kids.  I love doing stuff with them, but especially when I'm working it makes it hard so we try to do easier things on those days.  I didn't get pictures of most of the stuff that we did, but here are some of them. 

We drew pictures for their lists to send to Santa Claus.  Austin's is a remote control helicopter, Zack's is a remote control car, and Gavin just scribbled, but then said later that he wanted a scary monster. 

 Austin- remote control car, Zack- roller skates, and a pogo stick, Gavin- scribbles.

 Lucky for us Santa had a mailbox right by our house so we went and mailed them.  They were so excited about this!

 Hannah wanted proof that she was with us.

 The next activity I stretched out over 3 days.  The first day we made the sugar cookie dough.  The second day we cut them out and baked them and the third day we frosted them.  The boys love cooking with me and most of the time I love it too.

 Zack's in the middle in the striped shirt.

 Austin and Zack's kindergarten class put on a little Christmas program for us.  They just sang some Christmas songs.  It was really cute and they loved doing it.  

A few of the other things we did were:  making countdown chains, making cards for all of the grandparents, shopping dates with mommy to buy Christmas presents, getting a new movie, getting a new book, drinking hot chocolate, making treats, and looking at Christmas lights