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!
Santa Christmas Countdown
Supplies:
card stock or construction paper
glue stick
scissors
pen
ruler or straight edge
I cut out some basic shapes from cardstock and laid them all out to show my kids how they would be put together. Then I let them assemble them by themselves. I love how different they turned out even though they had the same assembly pieces!
After they assembled Santa, I drew lines across his beard and we numbered them. One to cut off each day until Christmas. Kaylee isn’t old enough for scissors, and it didn’t really matter anyway. She just wanted to color on her Santa’s beard. Aaron numbered his own. I love his little 5-year-old penmanship!
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Loving all the advent calendar ideas. Thanks for sharing.
SO 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
This is SUPER cute! I wanted to invite you to link up at TGIF Linky Party http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
Beth =-)
So, so cute! What a fun idea to do with the kids 🙂 They look like they were pretty into it 😉 Love it!
How fun! And the kids get to do it too! I really like this Advent Calendar.
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Really cute advent calendar! My kids are a bit young but I’ll save this for later. 🙂
This is adorable! And I love the one with your sons numbers too. :o)
You 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.
I 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
Aw, 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
Cute! 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