A Colorful Countdown to Christmas

By: Tiffany Hood for Lifestyle Crafts

Let Lifestyle Crafts help you count down the days until Christmas with A Colorful Countdown to Christmas advent calendar. Activity ideas are inserted into each pocket to help spread the joy throughout the month. Use your die-cut machine to make your calendar festive!

Materials:

Die Cut machine
Variety of dies (see what we used below)
Adhesive
Cardboard or hard backing
Ribbon

Instructions:

Use the Coin Envelope die for the pockets and embellish each day with 'Be Splendid' dies!
The number labels are made with Nesting Eyelet Circles, Nesting Circles, and the Tiki Alphabet.
Inside each pocket is a Christmas activity for the family. Use the Nesting Frame 2 die to make these. They fit perfectly inside the Coin Envelope die.

EXAMPLES:

Day 12 is beautifully made with the Poinsettia die. All of the colors work so wonderfully together!
Day 13 is adorned with the Santa Silhouette 2x2 die.
Day 24 is made with the reindeer portion of the Sleigh + Reindeer die.

Here's our list of activites...but feel free to make your own!

Make Christmas treats and take some to a neighbor
Bake gingerbread cookies. Be sure to make extra for family and friends
Make a kid-friendly Christmas craft
Make hand print ball ornaments, label them and put the year
Make paper snowflakes for the windows
Build a gingerbread house
Put up indoor Christmas decorations
Put up the Christmas lights on the house
Make homemade ornaments
Make scented pinecones
Go sledding
Buy a Christmas gift for a needy family
Build a snowman
Clean out old toys and clothes to donate
Do a family service project
Visit grandparents
Go shopping, have the kids buy gifts for their friends, come home and wrap!
Go ice skating
See the Christmas lights at the park
Drive around the neighborhood together and look at Christmas lights
Take food to the local food pantry or homeless shelter
Read the Christmas story from the Bible
Pop popcorn and watch a Christmas movie together
Make homemade fudge

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AngelicAng

Oct 27, 2016

I've been looking for an advent calendar for years that could be changed from year to year but yet did not cost an arm and a leg. I love this idea! I can put any activity I wish on the tag and they can be changes out each year to get rid of any family oriented ideas that were not a hit.