We started the countdown to Christmas after the Dutch fest Sinterklaas on the 5th of December. It's so nice to tick down the days together! We decided to make a Christmas tree Advent calendar. In just a few steps you can create your own.
With just some cardboard, green and yellow paper, some decoration materials like red hearts or glitters, yellow paint, a cork, glue, double sided tape and colouring pens, you are ready to build and decorate your Christmas Advent tree!
Cut out three Christmas shapes. One from a thick piece of cardboard, another from a thin piece of cardboard and finally one from green paper. Glue or use double sided tape to stick the three pieces together. The thick piece at the back, the thin piece in the middle and the green paper at the front. Don’t forget to keep some left over cardboard. At the end you can use this to make a backing, so your tree will stand firmly.
Write down the numbers till Christmas Eve on a yellow paper. Draw a little Christmas tree and glue it on the green paper as well. Depending on the age of your child, he can do it himself.
Now it's time to decorate the tree with yellow paint and shiny red hearts, glitters or whatever your kid likes. Let your child create dots by dipping the cork in the yellow paint and stamping it on the tree. Stick the hearts on the dots when they are still wet. Let everything dry and attach the cardboard backing with doubled sided tape as final element. Now it's time to countdown the days to Christmas! Let your kid scratch a number every evening before bedtime. Don't forget to undertake some fun Christmas activities together during the countdown period.
My nanny kid loved this activity so much! So we decided to make a Christmas card with kind of the same idea for her grandparents (see picture below).
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