In a city not too far from ours, there’s going to be a fun holiday event that we’re going to.Frozen may not be an actual Christmas movie, but I think it ties in really nicely to winter activities, such as making these coffee filter snowflakes from One Little Project.Watch Frozen and make coffee filter snowflakes.This is the template I print each year from the shop CafeLattePrintables on Etsy.If you don’t do Santa with your kids, that’s fine! This is also a great opportunity to have them write YOU a letter or a list if you haven’t already finished your shopping. Each year I have my kiddo write a letter to Santa.The book is a lift-the-flap style book that’s perfect for any young kiddo’s curiosity! This year in addition to watching the movie, I bought this cute book to go along with it.What better way to start our OWN countdown! Elmo’s Christmas Countdown has been one of my favorite toddler friendly Christmas movies ever since I watched it with my nephews when they were little.Open Elmo’s Countdown to Christmas book and watch Elmo’s Christmas Countdown.(Spending time together reading a new book counts as an activity in our family!) In this post, I plan to give different activity based ideas for families with younger kiddos for their advent calendar or Christmas countdown. So, instead of buying “things”, we spend time making memories together each day in December. As I’m sure every parent can relate, I don’t want to spend money on more cheap little toys that will just end up in the trash, especially when our kiddo gets SO much on Christmas anyway. In our family, for our countdown calendar, we do more activity based gifts. Now, most people call this an advent calendar, which is fine, but seeing as how we’re an atheist family, and “advent” has religious connotations, we simply call it a Christmas countdown. We have a special Christmas countdown decoration that we use for this purpose. One of my absolute favorite things to do with my son for the month of December is counting down the days until Christmas. Hey everyone! As I’m sure you all know, Christmas is right around the corner. As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn commissions based on qualifying purchases.
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