Our Christmas Countdown has Begun! Day 1: December 1, 2012

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around our house! We have started a daily countdown to Christmas with a different activity each day! The kids look forward to finding out what the activity for the day will be by pulling a tag out of our new Advent calendar.


 

I made the calendar out of corkboard, scrapbook paper, and Christmas stickers, then

used small white tags to write the different activities on.

 

December 1 - Day 1:

Today was Christmas sock day and family gingerbread house decorating day!

I wrapped a new pair of Christmas socks
(.50 - 1.00 socks!) in cute little gift bags.

 Everyone had a new pair of socks to wear all day!

I even wrapped a pair for my hubby! (Although I tried not to get him such cutesy ones!)





After dinner, we made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers! Everyone was involved and had lots of fun! Chad even said, "Mom, this is one of the best nights ever!"

 

I think Caleb ate more candy than actually helping!

 

 

 The finished products were all so creative and cute!

Instructions for making these can be found here.