Advent Activities

This year we have been busy.  Kya and Zander helped me make an advent calender with fun activities to do each day.  They love to have projects and fun things to do.  We've made wreaths, watched Christmas movies, made hot cocoa, opened presents (books to read stories each night), made tree ornaments, decorated our tree, visited Santa, did some Christmas shopping....and a few things I DID get pictures of.

Made gingerbread houses....Kya was very excited about this activity.  Zander just wanted to eat the candy and pile everything up to make a "dinosaur"...he is very into dinosaurs lately.  What a funny kid.

I saw this activity on pinterest and since we live in the desert and we really don't get much snow around here...last night we build our own snowman indoors.  The kids got a kick out of this.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

So we have started our Christmas celebration with decor and parties.  Last saturday we had our annual ward Christmas party.  Always a fun night.  The program was the primary kids singing.  Santa came for a visit and the kids love sitting on his lap.  Kya makes me laugh...she whispered in my ear, "mom, I don't know what I want for Christmas"...she was very concerned that she shouldn't sit on Santa's lap because she has nothing to tell him or ask from him.  What a funny girl.

We made ornaments and decorated our trees.  This year I made a very simple advent calendar and each day the kids pick out an activity to do that day.  One day we spent making ornaments, then we decorated one tree, we've cut out snowflakes from paper, wrote letters to Santa, decorated our "family" tree, opened a present {book} and started reading children's classics...among other things.

Here are a few pics of holidays so far...