How To Make A Christmas Countdown With Kids Activities

Just like you I am a Pinterest addict.  Admitting it is half the battle, right?  As I was looking this year and saw all of the Christmas countdowns and advent calendars I knew in my head what I wanted.  I wanted a combination of it all where you have the countdown with things to do.  I didn’t want one with treats or candy but more activities.

There are a ton of printable activity calendars or cute countdowns with just the countdown and I created one with both that you can use year after year.  As per my usual self I over thought and planned for this project in order for it to be re-usable and also so I could match the activities to days I wanted them on.  I didn’t want to bake cookies on a random Tuesday or drive around to see lights when it was a night I go and workout.

My solution…velcro!!  I’ll show more in a minute on that.

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I purchased the board at Michaels.  I used a 50% off coupon so I think it was only about $7.  We had some scrap wood from building the shed but for $7 a quick trip to the store is worth it for me.

I also got the chipboard stars at Michaels.

A great site for Oracle 651 is My Vinyl Direct.  They have a huge selection of vinyl and other blank items for projects.

The rest of the magic happened with my Cricut.

I played with the size and layout with scrap paper stars to make sure it would all fit before I actually cut or put anything on.  That is probably the most time consuming part of this.  Once I figured out how it was all going to fit I didn’t do any measuring or anything.  I just laid the stars out and eyeballed it and made a dot with a pen in the hole at the top and went back with the tiny nails to hammer in.