<\/a><\/div>\nHere is what my advent calendar is filled with, in no particular order\u2026 \nMake and decorate Christmas cookies \nChristmas lights boat cruise (A Christmas lights show in Coeur d\u2019 alene taken place on a lake) \nOpen Christmas ornament \nDrive around and look at neighborhood Christmas lights \nVisit Santa Clause \nGo get a Christmas tree and decorate \nWatch a Christmas movie with special treats \nWrite a letter to Santa \nRead a new Christmas story \nOpen Christmas Eve present (new jammies!) \nMake a Christmas craft \nDecorate a gingerbread house \nRead the Christmas story in the Bible \nDrink hot cocoa with marshmallows \nBring treats to the firemen and policemen \nVisit a live nativity scene \nAdopt a Christmas child \nOpen Christmas CD and dance to music \nMake Christmas pancakes \nGo see the train lights \nThen the last few say \u201cSpecial treat!\u201d and I will fill with a Christmas goody. I\u2019d like to find those gold chocolate coins. I just loved those as a child! \nI also made a couple of blank cards that can be filled in last minute in case one day we can\u2019t do a planned activity. \nOkay, now I\u2019d like to save you some time and tell you where we messed up\u2026<\/b> \nWe thought we could save some time and a little cash if we used magnetic paint and painted the glass that came with the frames. In theory, this wasn\u2019t a bad idea. But, you will need fairly big\/strong magnets for the boxes to stay on the board if you go this route. The magnets we bought would not stay on the board, even after\u00a0four<\/i>coats of paint. We even added three magnets to one box to see if it would hold, and while it would, the board was weaker in certain areas and it just wasn\u2019t reliable. We also tried magnetic tape, and that also would not hold the boxes to the board. So a fair amount of time was wasted gluing on and plucking off magnets. This is when we gave in and bought the sheet metal, which was only about $12\/sheet and our original magnets worked perfectly. \nI hope you enjoy!!! Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
December is just around the corner which means the start of one of our favorite family traditions; the advent calendar! I searched high and low for an advent calendar that I liked and came up empty-handed. So, a friend and I set out to make our own and I must say that it is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Advent calendar tutorial - Living with Lady<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n