Ho ho ho,

Christmas is closer every day! Here is a list of stuff you can do together with your family to help you count down!

Here’s what we are doing for the next 24 days:

1. Go outside and look at the moon & stars before bedtime. Remember the star that the wise men followed.
2. put “glow in the dark stars” up in your room.
3. Decorate bedroom doors
4. {candy}
5. Watch a Christmas movie
6. Bake cookies with Mommy
7. What’s in the red basket above the TV? (it’ll be Christmas socks)
8. Make paper snowflakes
9. {candy}
10. Take Christmas goodies to a shut-in member from Red Cross
11. Make a Christmas card for friend
12. Build a fort from blankets & pillows. Read a Christmas book in the fort.
13. Have hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows or whipped cream.
14. Donate food to Second Harvest Food Bank
15. {candy}
16. Make shrinky-dink ornaments or magnets
17. Go see the Big Christmas Tree in the city centre
18. Eat dessert first (brownies with peppermint ice cream)
19. What’s in the cookie jar?
20. Drive around and look at Christmas lights in our pajamas
21. Count all the Santas in the house
22. Make paper toys (http://www.thetoymaker.com)
23. Go on a Christmas scavenger hunt
24. Read Christmas story and open Christmas Eve present from Mommy & Daddy