So this year, as my daughter is almost 3 years old and starting to really "get" Christmas, I wanted to make a fun advent calendar to help us countdown to Christmas Day 2012. As I was scouring Pinterest for homemade advent calendars, I found a gift wrap idea that I took as inspiration for creating one out of things we already had!
). I then made a document with cute letters for the 24 days leading up to Christmas to paste to the tubes. Below is a JPG that you can "right-click-save" to your computer to make your own advent calendar. 
I found a fantastic blogger, Kelly at Be A Fun Mum, who had created a day by day reading and activity file for her homemade advent calendar. Towards the end of her blog post (linked on the picture below), she has a link to her advent calendar PDF. Click, print, and cut apart each day.
My true stroke of genius came when I decided to tie all the tubes to an extra strand of Christmas lights laying around. I tied them not in numerical order, as I wanted my daughter to practice her numbers and I also didn't want one side to be more empty than the other as we take them off each day. I hung the strand of lights (which I ended up tripling over) on three 3M hooks on the edge of my kitchen bar counter. But you could hang your advent garland wherever would be cool in your house!
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| Garland Up Close |
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| From Afar - Pretty Cute, Kinda Rustic! How do you celebrate the countdown to Christmas? Do you use an advent calendar? If so, what is yours like? |
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