December is here and that means... it's time to start our advent calendar! After seeing a super cute advent calendar from Pottery Barn on Pinterest (my new obsession), I really wanted it. I couldn't find one to buy and when I started looking at it, I realized it was all made out of felt and $70. Um, what? Felt is SO cheap, so I knew I had to make one. I went to Jo-Ann's and bought less than $30 worth of felt (and ended up having quite a bit leftover). I made a template and cut out the pockets. Then I spent quite a few hours cutting out the designs for the pockets then stitching them on. After many, many hours, it is finished!
I absolutely LOVE it! The special thing about our advent calendar is that instead of toys, each pocket has an activity for the boys (or us as a family) to do. The bags on the floor are different crafts or things we need to do the activity for that particular day. For our first day today, Reed was pretty excited to take the first tag out...
Hudson listened as Reed read him the activity for today...
Writing letters to Santa! I bought cute little letters from the dollar section at Michaels and had the boys unwrap them from under the tree.
They were so sweet... Hudson asked for everything ninja (toys, shirt, pajamas, etc.) and Reed made sure to ask how the elves were doing before listing the things he wanted. :)
They really enjoyed this activity and they are looking forward to tomorrow! Our other fun thing we will do each day is a little tree that we add decorations to. Day one - garland.
This is gonna be a fun month. :)
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