Christmas Envelopes

This year a friend of mine sent me a link to a page explaining the idea of opening an envelope each day in December leading up to Christmas. I thought the kids would enjoy it, so we tried it. Each day there is an envelope to open with instructions inside for something special to do that day. On the first day, the instrucitons were to decorate all 25 envelopes. Here are some pictures of that.

Some of the other fun things were: attending Christmas parties, making Christmas gifts, going to see Christmas lights, reading Christmas books, drinking hot chocolate, etc. One day their envelope told them to give a Christmas gift to the birds, so we strung popcorn for our tree outside and made bird feeders.



A lot of the activites listed we would have done anyway, but it was nice to throw some extra fun things in there. And it helped hold me accountable to do the things I wanted to do with the kids and not put them off in order to get other stuff done. The kids really had fun with this, so hopefully we can do it again next year. A couple of days after Christmas Bekah asked, "when are we going to open our envelope?" I explained to her that it was only for 25 days in December, and then we stopped and there were no more envelopes. She said, "But I want us to open one every day, until we're dead!"