Last year instead of having an advent calendar with a piece of chocolate or mini present each day, I filled it with little slips of paper with Christmas activities. It acted like a Christmas season bucket list & was full of Christmas events we already had planned (ride a train to the “north pole,” have breakFast with Santa, etc.), fun mini Christmas activities or projects (baking Christmas cookies, making ornaments, etc.), as well as things to keep the meaning of the season in mind (donating food to those less fortunate, giving a…
