my homemade advent calendar

So I was just hanging out watching TV a couple of nights ago and decided I wanted to make an advent calendar. I am not very patient...I wanted to make it "now". SO, I pulled out all my scrapbook paper and tried to come up with a fun for Tate, interactive way to create an advent calendar. This is what I came up with...

This is how it works...

I cut out a bunch of "ornaments" and put numbers 1-24 on them. I also cut out a star for the top of the tree which will be put on the tree on Christmas day.

Each day, I will pull out the ornament with the number on it that represents the amount of days until Christmas and will have Tate color it and then choose where he wants to put it on the tree. I figured coloring was a good thing for Tate...he LOVES to color and I knew he would look forward to coloring his ornaments each day.

I was right...Tate has a blast decorating his ornaments and putting them in the spot he chooses on the tree. He took it very seriously.

I hung the tree on th wall, out of Tates reach. He keeps looking at it saying, "woe!!!!"

Look at his beautiful coloring skills. He is quite the artist! ( I did #25 so he would get the idea) :)

I love that he is so into coloring...I love that he's old enough now to do these types of fun things with!