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TheMadHouse Advent Calendar

I have been a busy bee over the last week.  I have been making an advent calender for us, one that meets our needs and that I hope will be used for many, many years to come.
I have been inspired by one I saw on Living with Kids, but of course my version is homemade and as inexpensive as possible.  I used a fleece from Ikea, little peg clips from poundland and everything else we already had in the house.

I stitched 24 mini stockings, put some ribbon trim abound the top.  I then cut out 24 green felt stars which I stamped with the dates.

I punched a tag out of christmas paper and wrote a task on the back of each of them from the list below:

Write and post your letter to Father Christmas
Help ice the Christmas cake
Make Christmas cards
Make shapes with the cookie cutters and playdough
Make Christmas shrinky dinks
Make paper snowflakes
Go to Carol Service
Colour in some Christmas pictures
Make some Christmas fairy cakes
Make paper chains
Collect Pinecones
Start reading about the nativity
Write your Christmas cards and deliver local ones
Make salt dough ornaments
String popcorn to go on the tree
Make a bird feeder
Sing and dance to Christmas songs
Make some christmas shaped cookies
Watch a Christmas movie
Make reindeer food
Read a Christmas Story
Make up a Christmas story
Take a walk in the dark to look at the Christmas lights
Help trim the tree
Make mince pies
make spiced cider.
Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it.
Make Thick Hot Chocolate and Homemade Marshmallows
Put up a wreath
Decorate our gingerbread house
Make a family traditional dessert

The plan is to add a couple of treats in each of the stockings once they have done the activity, not before as they will eat them all.
The boys have decide it will be hung on the wall in the sitting room, so come Tuesday next week will will be putting it up.
I am so proud of what I have done considering I had never done any sewing before the summer and I think that it should last a long time, I am building traditions for our family and loving every minute of it.
Now to start back on making Christmas presents for all.

Do you have an advent calender or do you use the chocolate ones?  If you are looking for a good perpetual one, look no further than The Great Toy Guide, who have reviewed a number and done the hard work for you.   I will show you my old one tomorrow, once it comes down from the loft. 

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