Last year N had a treat and had a Lego advent calendar, but I’m tight so wasn’t going to buy another one. He also had a fabric calendar that I filled with chocolate coins and slips of paper with activities on. This year, I planned to do the same fabric advent calendar. We did discuss…
Toddlers and advent calendars
Bizarrely, N seems to be going in reverse in terms of his interest in Christmas. A month or so ago he was pulling out his Christmas books with Father Christmas in and enjoying reading them, but now it’s December it’s like he’s forgotten about those. Even his advent calendar isn’t as exciting to him as…
Advent calendar
I think N’s getting into Christmas already even though he doesn’t know what it’s really about. I bought a fabric advent calendar in the sales last year (was going to make one, but this was easier and probably cheaper!), and despite having all year to plan, it got to yesterday and I was frantically trying…
Building Christmas spirit
I’m trying to get N excited by Christmas. Obviously he has no idea what it is, what it’s about, but it’ll be good to have someone else in the house who likes Christmas and gets excited by it, in contrast to the OH who’s a bit of a bah humbug. At the moment, his favourite…
