Our ultimate advent activity list was such a success last year, so we have updated it for this year and it now has 75 activities on it.

Advent helps me focus on the joy of the season after losing my mum coming up four years ago on Christmas Day.  it also helps us as a family not just keep looking forward to Christmas Day, but enjoy the build up.  We are still using the advent calender that I made four years ago, but I have a great post with 24 homemade advent calenders which might give you inspiration for your own.  This year we are also doing Advent acts of kindness to.

Ultimate Advent Activity List 2014

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
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 your PJ’s on and watch the Polar Express
19. Start reading about the nativity
20. Learn a new carol
21. Write your Christmas cards and deliver local ones
22. Make salt dough ornaments
23. String popcorn to go on the tree
24. Make a bird feeder
25. Sing and dance to Christmas songs
26. Make white pom poms and have a indoor snowball fight
27. Make an indoor snowman
28. Make reindeer cookies
29. Make decorations with dried orange slices
30. Make some Christmas cookies
31. Watch a Christmas movie
32. Make reindeer food
33. Read a Christmas Story from our advent box
34. Make air dry clay ornaments 
35. Make up a Christmas story
36. Take a walk in the dark to look at the Christmas lights
37. Have a picnic under the light from the christmas tree
38. Attend crib service in church
39. Make a Christmas video
40. Make a christmas wreath
41. Help trim the tree
42. Make mince pies
43. Make spiced cider
44. Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it – If you can not find any then make some felt mistletoe 
45. Make Thick Hot Chocolate and Homemade Marshmallows
46. Go on an christmas light scavenger hunt
47. Put up a wreath
48. Decorate our gingerbread house
49. Make a family traditional dessert
50. Dip candy canes in Hot Coco
51. Sing Christmas carols
52. Roast marshmallows over a fire
53. Make christmas flavored ice cream in a bag
54. Make a nativity out of LEGO
55. Write a Christmas poem
56. Make a christingle
57. Make candy as a gift
58. Do a craft with jingle bells
59. Donate canned food to a pantry
60. Make an angel for the top of the Christmas tree.
61. Choose three of your toys and give them away to a charity shop.
62. Write a Christmas Wish and hang it on your tree.
63. Hang up your Christmas stocking
64. Make a snow globe
65. Make Jelly Baby Jesus Cakes
66. Make orange and clove pomanders
67. Go ice skating
68. Make a lantern
69. Go Ice Skating
70. Make wrapping paper
71. Help wrap presents
72. Research christmas jokes
73. Make some crackers
74. Visit Father Christmas
75. Make peppermint bark
76. Make your own decoration
77. Make fingerprint robin cards

  DIY Advent Calendars for 2014

1. Free printable DIY box advent calendar – Powerful Mothering
2. Free printable random acts of kindness for kids – Mum in the Mad House
3. Random acts of kindness printable advent calendar – Coffee Cups and Crayons
4. 3D advent calendar – Craftulate
5. Home made LEGO advent Calender – Frugal Fun 4 Boys
6. DIY copper advent calendar by Growing Spaces
7. A joke a day for Advent – Nurturestore
8. Kindness Calendar – Hugo and Matilda
9. 30 advent calendar cards – The (reformed) idealist Mom
10. Paper Bag Christmas Countdown – Teach me Mommy
11. Advent for Secular Families – Planet Smarty Pants
12. Science Advent Calendar – Inspiration Laboratories
13. Printable number stickers for DIY Advent Calendars – Mama Miss
14. Memory verse Advent Calendar – Powerful Mothering
15. Easy DIY Advent Calendar – Mamas Happy Hive
16. 101 Magical Christmas ideas for advent – Family Days tried and tested
17. Advent Crown – Mum in the Mad House
18. Advent kindness jar – Mum in the Mad House
19. DIY Paper Cup Calendar – Hodge Podge Crafts
20. Toilet paper roll advent calendar – Danya Banya
21. Easy DIY Advent Calendar – Red Ted Art
22. Whimsical Handmade Advent Calendar – Gingerlillytea
23. Homemade felt advent calendar – Mummy of Two
24. 30 Fun Advent Calendar Activities – Hodge Podge Craft
25. Geometric Advent Calendar – All for the boys

If that wasnt enough then there is last years round up of 24 DIY advent Calendars!

In addition to our new super advent activity list, we are also taking part in The Ultimate Christmas Ideas Guide for Kids with the Kid Blogger Network.