Our Elf on the Shelf arrives on the first day of December and along with his arrival he brings Santa's sack filled with Advent Calendar pouches and Christmas books.
In past years we usually filled the pouches with candy but the kids have been having way too much sweets lately so I thought we would do something new and a little bit more meaningful. I got this idea from a fellow mommy friend and tweaked her (already amazing) list to suit our family a bit. It's a list of 24 good things, so each day the kids will open a pouch and we'll do what is on the sheet of paper.
So here is our list for this year....
1. Make popcorn and watch a holiday movie
2. Bake cookies and bring them to friends at
school
3. Gather clothes to donate
4. Sing Christmas songs and dance around a
lot
5. Make cards for your friends at school
6. Donate books to your school
7. Write a letter to Santa
8. Make cards for all the grandparents and
mail them
9. Gather toys to donate
10. Color a Christmas picture and hang paper
snowflakes
11. Make special cards and send to your
cousins
12. Have a campout by the Christmas tree
13. Dress up and take silly Christmas
pictures.
14. Make Olaf marshmallows and dip in hot
chocolate!
15. Bring coffee gift cards to your teacher
and say thank you
16. Give the guards some cookies and say thank
you
17. Do a Christmas song & dance show for
your parents
18. Make cards for all your teachers
19. Give flowers to your teachers and say thank you
20. Go look at Christmas lights
21. Make bread dough ornaments
22. Call grandparents and sing a Christmas song
23. Draw
a thank you note for Santa
24. Leave a treat for Santa and his reindeer
So here's goes hopefully something special and hope this December brings you and your family a lot of somethings special too!!
