….and it had better be quick, since I made it on December 8th.
Supplies:
1 length of ribbon, being thrown away by Mamaw. Save and bring home. Probably 12 feet or so.
1 pack of scrapbook card stock “scrap pack”. Since I do not scrapbook, I bought this. Turns out, its just a package of different colored, different sized squares. Huh. Next year, use construction paper.
1 Sharpie
1 Stapler
3 clothes pins, or as many as you have children.
Assemble 24 little cardboard houses from the card stock, amounting to a triangle glued to a square. Mix up the colors and sizes.
Make 1 cardstock tree
Staple little houses to ribbon.
Count houses, make sure there are 24.
Staple tree next to last house.
Number houses 1-24 and the tree 25.
Cut out little brown card stock gingerbread boys, glue to the back of springy clothes pins. Label with your children’s names.
Hang low enough so the children can reach it. (yes, that is what I said. Hang it LOW. Its OK. That’s right. Its OK.)
Ta-Da!
Every morning the kids can move their Gingerbread boy to the next house and count down to Christmas. Actually, since we are in Kindergarten, “counting down” is not our best skill. We will count up to Christmas. You may want to number yours as a count down.
If we manage to get started early next year, it would be cute to decorate each house. But there is no time for that on December 8th. But, there you go…an interactive, quick, cheap and easy Advent Calendar for kids. Hooyah.
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