Yep, I might be crazy... I'm doing a summer advent calendar. The boys enjoy the Christmas calendar so much, I decided that we needed one for summer too. :) If I'm not careful, our summer tends to be VERY unstructured and although that's not necessarily a bad thing, I want to live it up in summer and that means I needed a plan. Since the boys will both be swimming with the Seals this summer, they will have practice 4 days a week from 8-9:30. I will need to get them up by 7:30 at the latest, so I thought it would also be a good incentive for them to get up in the mornings knowing they have a fun surprise planned that day!
I found a calendar on Pinterest I wanted to copy. They had activities just on Monday through Friday which I really liked - we like to keep Sundays free and most Saturdays we will have swim meets. Not every day will be something big, but I tried to follow a theme for each day of the week (one day we will be swimming, one day will be a project or craft, one day will be an outing to somewhere like the zoo, etc.). I bought a magnetic dry erase calendar and used my Cricut to cut out shapes to fit in the squares. I wrote our activity on the calendar and then put the special magnet (a pompom hot-glued to a magnet) that shape over the square.
