Advent Calendar Help
2025 and there are about a million different Advent calendars at the store. If you are anything like me, it is more than slightly overwhelming. Plus what do you do with all the little toys/things that come in the advent calendar?! A few years ago, I did my favorite version of an advent calendar with our two foster daughters. I plan on doing something similar this year with my two kids! What is it?!
The kindness/activity advent calendar! This can be as complicated OR as easy as you want/need it to be for you and your family. I selected 24 “activities” and put them on little cards inside envelopes that my girls got to open every morning. These were things I preplanned knowing what our schedule was so I could plan accordingly! Here are some ideas of things you could use:
-Open the door for someone
-Smile at a stranger
-Give someone a compliment
-Bake cookies for the mailman
-Bake cookies for the trashman
-Leave a blow up Christmas decoration in a friend’s yard after dark without them knowing (6 years later and the girls STILL talk about this one!)
-Christmas shop for your sibling(s)
-Send someone a card/letter
-Take someone donuts
-Do a Christmas craft and gift it to someone
-Take treats to the neighbors
-Fill a box of toys to donate
-Shop from a small local shop
-Pull in the neighbors trash cans on trash day
-Flowers/coffee for your teacher
-Throw a Christmas movie party with friends (and Christmas snacks)
-Make and take someone dinner
-Fill a box of clothing that is too small to donate
-Shovel your neighbors driveway
-Invite a friend over to play board games
-Donate to your local food pantry
-Go look at Christmas lights as a family
-Christmas movie night as a family
-Make gingerbread houses
-Christmas movie while wrapping gifts together
-Go to a local Christmas event
-Go iceskating as a family
-Decorate sugar cookies together
-Family hot chocolate bar with a Christmas movie
The options are truly endless! It is an amazing opportunity for you to do some activities as a family that also serve others well this season. Plus you can customize it however you need to in order to fit your family’s schedule. I pray this brings joy and fun for your family this season.