Advent Celebratory Activities

To celebrate Jesus' birth, we will be having 25 celebratory activities, one for each day until and on Christmas. This is NOT a Korean tradition, but my receptacle of choice to put the little piece of paper with that day's activity will be a Tukbaegee (A Korean earthenware pot).

Here's the tukbaegee. I am going with having one receptacle versus 24 different ones because then I am not committed to any activity. I plan to just pick one the night before that's most convenient. But it has occurred to me that parents who have 24 ones don't have to have all the activities in there at once. And, of course, paper can be shifted. Instructions on how to make the number cards below*

1. Cut the Christmas tree
2. Felt a wool ball
3. Make butter out of cream
4. Make salt dough ornaments
5. Decorate Christmas cards
6. Bake Christmas cookies
7. Make paper chains
8. Go caroling in a nursing home
9. Build a snowman
10. Drink Mexican hot cocoa
11. Make homemade popcorn
12. Make jello
13. Design our Christmas stockings
14. Wrap presents
15. Make smores in the fireplace
16. Assemble a gingerbread house at the library
17. "Flying" on mom's feet
18. Go sledding
19. Cut paper snowflakes
20. Reindeer Roll and Color
21. Go on a night walk
22. Write letter/card to our Compassion child
23. Continue on our clay nativity scene from last year
24. Attend Christmas service
25. Bake a cake and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus

I got a lot of my ideas from Muses of Megret, Uncommon Grace, and Shannon's Sharings. As you can see, I picked very simple activities that wouldn't stress me out.

* The kids and I experimented with a traditional Waldorf art activity--wet on wet painting. But since we didn't have 140 pound paper, we used 80 pound, and instead of soaking it beforehand, I had the kids mist their paper with their water spray bottles, wipe off the excess water, and paint with water colors (tubed kind). After Koko's dried, I asked her if I could use them for our advent number garland. Then my husband graciously cut them and wrote the numbers with fancy handwriting. If you don't want your paper to mat, you should use the original instructions on wet-on-wet painting, especially the part to soak the paper in water for at least 15 minutes, but I think the colors are more vibrant versus pastel if you try it my way. Since I was too lazy to actually make a garland, I just stuck the cards on top and bottom of our nature shelf and plan to put away one card after each activity.