Our Advent Calendar

I decided today that we needed an Advent calendar to help our family count down to Christmas. And since we have an overabundance of unmatched socks, I decided to use them. (Incidentally, I found a match. Check out #6 and #24! :)


And This is what we will be doing:

1. Put up Christmas decorations and eat a candy cane!

2. Go to the Library and check out Holiday Stories.

3. Go see Santa and ride in a Cinderella carriage at the Old Towne Mall.

4. Go to Polar Express at the Movie Theater.

5. Get a basket of food ready to take to the local food bank.

6. Sing songs around the Christmas tree as a family

7. Write a letter to Santa

8. Decorate cookies with Santa.

9. Hunt for the kissing reindeer and a chocolate kiss for you.

10. Give a candy cane to someone you love.

11. Go see Old Thyme Christmas in Harpers Ferry

12. Walk through a live Nativity at Kernstown Battlefield 5-8pm

13 Make a Gingerbread House Today.

14. Visit Santa at the mall today!

15. Drive around the neighborhood and check out holiday lights!

16. Drink a cup of hot cocoa and look at pictures of past Christmas holidays.

17. Make a special holiday card for your nursery teachers. Go and View a Winter Wonderland at Clearbrook Park

18. Got to the Temple see the lights.

19. Work on Holiday Notes for our family. Have cookies and milk with Mrs. Pauline and Mr.Doug

20. Dance party! Put on PJ’s and jam out to holiday music before bed.

21. Draw or paint a picture about Christmas and send it to someone in our family

22. Make Holiday Treats

23 Deliver holiday sweets to our neighbors. Watch a Christmas special on tv.

24 Christmas Eve Read ‘The Night Before Christmas’ and get cookies ready for Santa.

25 Christmas Day Celebrate! Give thanks! Sing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus!