This darling Santa Christmas Countdown is the perfect activity for kids! Trim Santa’s beard a little bit every day until Christmas Day!
Today I am sharing a fun advent that my children made last week! It was so fun to make and SIMPLE! Christmas countdown and advents can get complicated and expensive. Not this one. Our Santa Christmas countdown is perfect for kids!
More Simple Christmas Countdown Ideas
Santa Christmas Countdown
Supplies
- card stock or construction paper
- glue stick
- scissors
- pen
- ruler or straight edge
How to assemble your Santa Christmas Countdown
Step 1: Cut out a beard from a piece of 8.5 x 11″ cardstock.
Step 2: Cut out whiskers, a pom pom for the hat, the hat trim and a trapezoid for Santa’s head.
Step 3: Cut out a red triangle for the hat and a small circle for the nose.
Step 4: Cut a face out of peach/beige paper.
Step 5: Glue the pieces together using a glue stick.
Step 6: Add eyes using a black marker.
I let the kids assemble them by themselves. I love how different they turned out even though they had the same assembly pieces!
Step 6: Draw lines across Santa’s beard and number them, one for each day until Christmas.
Step 7: Hand Santa on the refrigerator and trim a slice from his beard every day!
Note: if your child is too small to use scissors, or even understand the concept, they may have fun glueing a cotton ball to Santa’s beard each day instead. My daughter was only 3 when we made these so she colored on Santa’s beard instead.
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Shannah @ Just Us Four says
November 21, 2011 at 8:03 pmLoving all the advent calendar ideas. Thanks for sharing.
CSI girl says
November 22, 2011 at 12:00 amSO cute!!!
I hope you will come link this up to the CSI Project. The challenge this week is Advent Calendars. You could take home the top prize or the great giveaway. Come over all week for tutorials and enter the FB giveaway!
http://www.thecsiproject.com
bgorden says
November 22, 2011 at 7:30 pmThis is SUPER cute! I wanted to invite you to link up at TGIF Linky Party http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
Beth =-)
Tracey @ My House of Giggles says
November 25, 2011 at 9:37 pmSo, so cute! What a fun idea to do with the kids 🙂 They look like they were pretty into it 😉 Love it!
Janny says
November 28, 2011 at 2:05 pmHow fun! And the kids get to do it too! I really like this Advent Calendar.
Eva Scott says
November 28, 2011 at 8:26 pmHere from Skip to My Lou
Really cute advent calendar! My kids are a bit young but I’ll save this for later. 🙂
Deb @ Paper Turtle says
November 29, 2011 at 12:32 pmThis is adorable! And I love the one with your sons numbers too. :o)
Natasha in Oz says
December 2, 2011 at 7:48 amYou have shared some great ideas today-thank you! This project is great because the kids can get involved.
I am hosting two link ups at the moment and I would be so honoured if you could join in with one or even both of them! The first is my weekly Pinterest party @ 5 Minutes Just for Me and the second is an Advent calendar link up as part of my 12 Days of Christmas series at my Christmas blog. I sure do hope you can pop by and visit!
Best Christmas wishes,
Natasha.
Tenille says
December 4, 2011 at 5:23 amI love this idea. So cute and clever. My boys would love this. Thanks for sharing. I would love it if you could link this up to our linky party going on right now.
http://www.junkintheirtrunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/link-it-up-wednesday-5.html
Lindsi B says
December 6, 2011 at 12:06 amAw, that is an adorable Santa Advent! He turned out fantastic! I bet your children had a blast making him with you. Would you please share this with my readers for Fun Stuff Fridays linky party? http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2011/12/fun-stuff-fridays-2.html
Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com says
November 19, 2012 at 2:20 amCute! We would love for you to share this on our Kitchen Fun and Crafty link party! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/11/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link_15.html