So now that Halloween is over I can finally look forward to my favourite time of the year... Christmas!!! To celebrate our own family count down and begin our festive season we've made a giant paper chain link.
Last year I found a pack similar to the one pictured at red dot or reject shop or one of those low cost retail stores and we decorated the space around the Christmas tree with long chains but still had heaps of paper strips left over so I put them in the basket with all the paper scraps. Well I pulled them out today. Lexi wrote numbers on them (1-50) while I just stapled them together in sequential order.
Once they were all linked together i just grabbed a push pin from the study and pinned the number '1' link to the ceiling where we normally put the Christmas tree. Each morning at breakfast I allow Lexi to go and rip off the last link of the chain and tell me how many sleeps there are left til Christmas.
Its one of those small, inexpensive ways to help bring the magic of Christmas. As a rule in our house the tree doesn't go up til December 1st, otherwise it would possibly be set up in July ha ha. So to introduce Christmas to our household and to give me a little more than 24 days to be 'Christmassy' I like to do little things to introduce the festive season a little earlier than most homes.
How is your family getting ready for the coming festive season?
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