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Advent Calendar Activities with Free Printable

Celebrate the build-up to Christmas with these fabulous advent calendar activities for Kids and Printable Activity Advent Calendar. This really is the cutest way to pass the days during advent and to reinforce family values at this special time of year and is full of Christmas activities and Christmas crafts.

Celebrate the build up to Christmas with these fabulous advent calendar activities and printable Activity Advent Calendar. This really is the cutest way to pass the days during advent and to reinforce family at this special time of year.

There is something really magical about spending quality time with family over December. The small traditions that make this time of year remarkable and that cement memory in our children’s hearts. They don’t have to be expensive or take lots of time, in fact often children really love and remember the smallest things.

My boys love our Advent traditions and even now as teens insist that we have Christmas hot chocolate and movie nights. We still ice gingerbread together.

Activity Advent Calendar

Celebrate the build up to Christmas with these fabulous advent calendar activities and printable Activity Advent Calendar. This really is the cutest way to pass the days during advent and to reinforce family at this special time of year.

This year our traditions might have to be a little different due to the circumstances but there is no reason that we can not all have a wonderful magical advent filled with treats. I love a Christmas countdown and the idea of this countdown calendar is that it is filled with small seasonal activities that are simple but also build up the anticipation until Christmas Eve.

In fact, I think that it is even more reason to find small joy in each of the days. So I have created a printable advent activity calendar with foldable envelopes filled with an activity each day and also a set of numbers for you to print and use.

Celebrate the build up to Christmas with these fabulous advent calendar activities and printable Activity Advent Calendar. This really is the cutest way to pass the days during advent and to reinforce family at this special time of year.

If this year has given me anything, it is a total appreciation of spending time with the people I love. So I have gone through our big long list of Advent activities and used 24 to make this beautiful simple calendar. I have also included some blanks so you can add your own special Christmas traditions that you have for the holiday season.

This advent activity printable is really easy to use, just download, print, cut and fold. These envelopes fold into themselves, so no glue is needed. I have made it super easy for any Cricut owners out there and you can find the printable here for Cricut.

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We decided to clip each envelope off a wire fairy lights using clear pegs and to pop numbers on the front. We even have a printable for the numbers (here for Cricut users)

Celebrate the build up to Christmas with these fabulous advent calendar activities and printable Activity Advent Calendar. This really is the cutest way to pass the days during advent and to reinforce family at this special time of year.

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Christmas Advent Calendar Activities

  1. Write and post your letter to Father Christmas
  2. Help ice the Christmas cake
  3. Make Christmas cards
  4. Make shapes with the cookie cutters and playdough
  5. Make Christmas shrinky dinks
  6. Make paper snowflakes
  7. Go to Carol Service
  8. Colour in some Christmas pictures
  9. Make some Christmas fairy cakes
  10. Make paper chains
  11. Collect Pinecones and make a decoration.
  12. Make Christmas popcorn
  13. Make gingerbread men
  14. Make a snow globe
  15. Help dry orange slices
  16. Make peppermint creams
  17. Make up a Christmas board game
  18. Put up the Christmas Decorations
  19. Go Sledding
  20. Have a meal lit by candles.
  21. Put your PJ’s on and watch the Polar Express
  22. Choose a Christmas Party Game to play with your family
  23. Start reading about the nativity
  24. Learn a new carol
  25. Make Paper Plate Baubles
  26. Have a Christmas Song Disco
  27. Write your Christmas cards and deliver local ones
  28. Make a Christmas Garland
  29. Buy a new Christmas book.
  30. Make salt dough ornaments
  31. String popcorn to go on the tree outside
  32. Make Craft Stick Snowflake Ornaments
  33. Make a bird feeder
  34. Sing Christmas carols
  35. Do a ramdom act of kindness
  36. Make white pom poms and have an indoor snowball fight
  37. Make an indoor snowman
  38. Bake reindeer cookies
  39. Make decorations with dried orange slices
  40. Bake some Christmas cookies
  41. Watch a Christmas movie
  42. Make reindeer food
  43. Read a Christmas Story from our advent box
  44. Make air dry clay ornaments 
  45. Make up a Christmas story or comic
  46. Take a walk in the dark to look at the Christmas lights
  47. Design your own Christmas Ugly Sweater
  48. Have a picnic under the light from the Christmas tree
  49. Write a letter to your Elf.
  50. Attend crib service in church
  51. Make a Christmas video
  52. Make a Christmas wreath
  53. Help trim the tree
  54. Make DIY Mini Plant Pot Reindeer Ornaments
  55. Make mince pies
  56. Make spiced cider or apple juice
  57. Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it – If you can not find any then make some felt mistletoe 
  58. Make Hot Chocolate and marshmallows
  59. Go on a Christmas light scavenger hunt
  60. Put up a wreath
  61. Decorate your gingerbread house
  62. Make a family traditional dessert
  63. Dip candy canes in Hot Coco
  64. Sing Christmas carols
  65. Roast marshmallows over a fire
  66. Make Printable Christmas Star Ornaments for the Christmas Tree
  67. Make Christmas flavoured ice cream in a bag
  68. Make a nativity out of LEGO
  69. Write a Christmas poem
  70. Design a Christmas TV Quiz
  71. Make a Christingle
  72. Make Christmas Gift Tags to Colour and Personalise
  73. Make candy as a gift
  74. Do a craft with jingle bells
  75. Donate canned food to a food bank
  76. Make an angel for the top of the Christmas tree.
  77. Choose three of your toys and give them away to a charity shop.
  78. Write a Christmas Wish and hang it on your tree.
  79. Hang up your Christmas stocking
  80. Have a festive breakfast
  81. Make Jelly Baby Jesus Cakes
  82. Make Washi Tape Christmas Baubles
  83. Make orange and clove pomanders
  84. Have a Christmas movie night
  85. Make a lantern
  86. Fingerprint Christmas Tree Ornament – Air Drying Clay
  87. Go Ice Skating
  88. Make wrapping paper
  89. Help wrap presents
  90. Tak blankets for the homeless
  91. Research Christmas jokes
  92. Make your Own Homemade Christmas Crackers
  93. Visit Father Christmas or visit Santa
  94. Make peppermint bark
  95. Make your own decoration
  96. Make fingerprint robin cards
  97. Make a Whoville Christmas Tree .
  98. Colour in a printable Nativity Scene

Advent Calendar Ideas

If you love this then you might also want to take a look at our Advent Random Acts of Kindness Calendar which is also a DIY Advent Calendar.

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