This fun, simple project was found at http://simplemom.net
Needed Items:
Large frame - without glass
Ribbon
White card stock blank bookmarks (they purchased theirs at JoAnn's, set of 20 for $2.50)
Clothes pins (they used miniature ones found at JoAnn's)
Items to decorate (they recommended number stickers, but had found scrapbook paper that worked great for this project)
Step 1: Tape rows of ribbon to back of frame
Step 2: Place numbers facing upside down on bookmarks.
Step 3: Fold bookmarks in half.
Step 4: Decorate clothes pins - they glued strips of scrap paper to each pin.
Step 5: Decorate inside of the bookmark, if doing and activity advent calendar place an activity inside each day (see below for activities they used)..
The finished product!
Once you do each daily activity, simply fold the bookmark so that the inside picture is showing and re-hang on the frame.
Simplemom.net shared their list of activities.
1. Open a gift! (Inside are
new Christmas pajamas)
2. 2. Find and decorate a
Christmas tree
3. Go downtown for the
Christmas parade
4. Go to The Nutcracker!
(this is just the girls… the boys will probably do something manly, like have a
snowball war)
6. String popcorn garland
for the tree
8. Make paper snowflakes
9. Attend our homeschool
co-op’s Christmas party!
10. Get together with family
friends to play games
11. Pop popcorn and Watch Elf
12. Make a new ornament for
the tree
13. Go to the local museum
(which has recreated Christmas from the 19th century)
14. Build a snowman
15. Bake cookies
17. Walk around Sisters (a
nearby small town that’s decked out for the holidays)
18. Make snow angels
20. Skype with friends to
wish them a merry Christmas
21. Make easy gingerbread houses
22. Drive around and look at
Christmas lights
24. Go to the Christmas Eve
service at church
25. Have a Merry Christmas!
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