One of the ways we take the edge off the anticipation of Christmas is to light the Advent wreath and put things up on an Advent calendar. We have a a nice Felt Pocket hanging calendar at home in which we put little crèche figures or an ornament or a sweet, and the kids take one out every day. Not having our usual props, we went a little commercial and let the kids have a Lego (Henry) and Playmobil (Grace) Advent calendar, but we also went a little homemade by stringing up a clothesline with each of us donating socks to make up 24 days. Each day the kids took turns looking inside the socks. Most days it was a sweet, or a note to do something nice for someone, or most popular with the kids, a note to find something - like a little giftie from mom or grandma (socks, earmuffs from the Advent markets, activity book or ornament). But the kids also got onto it, occasionally picking out the sweet or my favorite, Grace making notes to everyone telling them why she loved them.
This was a lot of fun and we got to hang up stockings even though we didn't do it for Christmas (the kids put out their ski helmets for Santa).
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