Christmas Advent Activities

We have started our advent to count down the days to Christmas.  We have 25 little boxes strung up on the wall and have started doing the activities inside.  We have written letters to Santa, made gingerbread houses, made ornaments, and sand angles.  It has been in the high 70s and low 80s!  We don't have any snow so we went to the sand park and made Christmas sand angles.  But today the weather changed and it is getting much cooler.

The ornaments were easy for the kids.  Mom helped them add eyes and antlers.  And mom, alone, handled the hot glue gun, adding a miniature red pom pom nose to each.  So cute!

Sophie has been fighting a cold.  We had a youth activity at our house tonight and Sophie was good to stay in her room since it started at her bedtime.  When all was said and done, this is what we found:

She'd laid out her blanket on the hard tile floor, and stationed her tissue box and waste paper basket to be handy.  Such a resourceful cutie!