Advent Christmas Tree

I am so excited to be participating in today’s Christmas Tree Hop! Thank you Angela from Unexpected Elegance for making this happen!

Growing up we always had a advent calendar, no chocolate or toys inside, just a count down till Christmas would arrive. I wanted to give our children the same memories that I had growing up but with a twist.

It is so easy to get caught up in the hupla of Christmas. I wanted our calendar to be about spending time as a family and giving them reminders about the about the true story of why we celebrate.

It took a little planning on my end as I had to make sure some of the activities would fall on a weekend night. Baking dozens of cookies with the kids definitely wouldn’t work on a school night but reading a Christmas book sure would.

~I have the list of activities listed at the end of this post~

I purchased some tags at Michael’s but they would be easy to make yourself.

I wrote the number on each tag, a stamp would be really cute as well. Yes, I have horrible handwriting, hence the template.

On the opposite side of the tag I wrote the activity for the day. I made sure this was in pencil so I could reuse them each year and change things around if needed.