Advent Box Activity Ideas:
- Cut out paper snowflakes (we usually do this early on to decorate the dining room windows)
- Make a gingerbread house
- Decorate the tree
- Host a cookie exchange party
- Make cookies (we usually have more than one day of this)
- Make crafts
- School Christmas or band concerts
- Visit Santa
- Make Sibling Gifts
- Make peanut butter ornaments for the birds
- Make Dad’s Christmas biscotti
- Decorate the girls’ Christmas tree
- Go sledding
- Go ice-skating
- Make food for the reindeer
- Make a Swedish Kringla
- Celebrate St. Lucia’s Day
- Watch Elf with popcorn and hot chocolate
- Pappaw’s Christmas visit
- Assemble Christmas cards
- Assemble and mail Christmas packages
- Make gift tags
- Visit the Nativity
- Grammy’s Christmas Concert
- Make Ice Cream trees
- Build a Snowman
- Make Nutter Butter Santas
- Practice Christmas Play
- Host a Christmas sing-along
- Go shopping for the Christmas Family
- Drive around and look at Christmas lights
- Visit the Christmas display at Macy’s
- Play Christmas songs on the piano at the nursing home
- Go to the Holidazzle Parade
- Make treats for the dogs
- Wrap presents
- Make winter ice candles
- Bring treats to an animal shelter
- Go to a Christmas movie
- Host a gingerbread house-making party
- It’s Christmas Eve!
- Merry Christmas!
Some days all I can manage is a joke: “What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?” Frostbite. Or “What do Santa’s elves learn in the North Pole school?” The elfabet.
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