Things You'll Need:
- 2 large sheets of white poster board or colored
- Small labels or markers to write in the squares
- Scissors
- Ruler or measuring tape
- Design
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Step 1
Choose a design or shape for your advent-event calendar. Let the family have input and vote for suggested choices. Design the sample on some scrap paper first. After you have decided how big of windows and shapes of windows trace onto the first white cardboard. Cut the poster board out on three shapes of the twenty-five windows needed and open like a door.
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Step 2
Glue the second cardboard to the first on all four edges only. Type or print labels or write on the board suggestions that the family can do each of the twenty five nights to get ready for the holiday. Some times it is shopping, church events, school events, baking cookies, wrapping presents, watching a TV special, renting a movie etc. The object is to include the whole family as much as possible. Sometimes it might not work for all but do it anyway with those who can.
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Step 3
Be sure to include acts of kindness, giving a toy to an underprivileged child, visiting relatives or the neighbors and nursing homes in your calendar suggestions. This calendar includes the theme of giving, love and sharing the true reason for Christmas.
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Step 4
Open one door per day and do the event that you chose with your family. This calendar is great for all year and can be done for any season. Monthly or weekly it works even one time per week to help the family grow and play together.
