It’s now the 1st of November and I can start thinking about Christmas. So kicking off 8 weeks of Counting Down to Christmas with some Amazing European Bloggers we start where any good Christmas Celebrations should with Advent Calendars and activities counting down to the big day. So here are 24 Advent Calendars, countdown and activity ideas to get you thinking and busy for the big day.
- Creative with Kids – Creative Christmas Countdown a collection of 24 fabulous bloggers counting down to Christmas with creative family fun.
- Our Reindeer Activity Calendar from last year – I’m making T’s one at the moment and had hoped to show it off today but due to illness it’s been delayed a little.
- Cutesy Crafts – Nativity Advent to make a Nativity Picture at the end
- Scrapbook Envelopes which is all over Pinterest and looks gorgeous
- No Time for Flashcars - DIY Advent Calendar from Wipe Lids
- Paint Cut Paste – Simple Advent Calendar of Activities
- J Daniel4′s Mom – Advent Muffin Tin Meal
- Make do and Friend – Advent Activities to countdown to christmas with
- Maya Made – Cardboard Tube Countdown
- Narrating Life - DIY Fridge Magnet Advent Calendar
- Kitchen Counter Chronicles – An advent Calendar from Far Away
- Dilly Dali Art – DIY Advent Calendar
- Come Together Kids – Christmas Countdown Tree
- From Tantrums to Treasure Hunts – A Simple Countdown Calendar
- Nurturestore – Advent Activities
- Kids Stuff World – Advent Activities
- In Lieu of Preschool – 10 Advent Activities
- The Iowa Farmers Wife – Advent Action Cards
- House and Home Canada – Christmas Decoration for 25 days
- The Duty Chronicles – 30 ideas for advent
- All things simple – Activities for Advent
- Kirsty Wiseman – Peg Advent Countdown
- Oopsey Daisy – Books and Crafts Advent Countdown
- The Crafty Crow – Books and Activity Advent
I am cohosting the Counting down to Christmas with the following bloggers – please pop over and see what they are doing for this first week and check back next week to see what we will be doing for week 2.
Rainy Day Mum ~ Mummy Mummy Mum! ~ Life at the Zoo ~ Here Come the Girls
The Fairy and The Frog ~ Jennifer’s Little World
Making Boys Men and The Boy and Me
We would love for you to come and link up your advent ideas in the linky below which is open until well into Decemeber.

















Love this and will be coming back for more – the one thing (I hope)I had forgotten from my Christmas check-list was the blinking advent calendar. No excuse now for not coming up with something fabulous

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I LOVE this!!! And THANK you so much for including our Advent Action Cards! Can’t wait to see what others are doing! Loved this list!
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Thank you so much for all of these great ideas! It will be hard to choose just one
Looking forward to all of your Christmas Countdown posts.
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The Peg Advent Calender is a fantastic idea. I can see it being used long after the season is over.
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These are wonderful! I really love the one with pegs!
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Wow that is a lot of ideas – now which to pick.
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