"Is today Christmas? Is it tomorrow? Santa's coming!" After a few hours of this we decided that we needed a countdown calendar. After a few minutes of searching online we found this one. Love it! There's also a link on that page for a newer nativity scene that's bloder/fresher/vivid colors that I really liked. But, it's not puzzle form-you build the nativity scene piece by piece. Awesome for kids a little older.My favorite parts are that it focuses on the Savior's birth rather than Santa, it's a fun puzzle for varying ages and there's a related scripture and activity for each day. And no matter your defined religion, as long you believe in Jesus Christ, this calendar will work for you!
I brought it to Alphagraphics on a memory stick, had them blow it up to 11x17 and laminate it. When I got it home I cut out the puzzle pieces (be prepared for sore fingers!), attached velcro to each piece and put magnets on the back so we could hang it on the fridge. Voila!
9 comments:
Thanks we love it! Great Idea, nice to put something meaningful back into Christmas.
I am confused. why do you need velcro if you are using magnets?
that is really cute. I want to use it next year for sure!
velcro is for the individual puzzle pieces, and there are magnets on teh back of teh puzzle 'board' to hang on the fridge. make sense?
Super cute. Love it!
That is awesome! We just have the lame ones with chocolate in them. Now I want to make one! How fun!
oh duh. lol yeah that makes sense.
So cute. I love that it has a scripture with it.
Cute idea! You know what is funny? I did this exact one with my girls in PA a few years ago, but we just used glue and it definitely wasn't reusable. Nice!
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