Instead of a separate bucket list, I’m just going to highlight our advent activities for December.
Decorate Mini Tree ✓ (This pic was pre-decoration, but they got it down and started their advent calendars.)
Letter to Santa ✓
Christmas Movies x3
8 Bit Christmas - Lovely 80s nostalgia for the parents. Heartwarming for the kids.
Dr. Sesuss’ The Grinch - Marcus Theaters was having $5 retro Christmas movies.
Make Paper Snowflakes ✓ - Arthur ripped a few, but we managed to make about 6 for the breakfast nook window.
Get New Christmas PJs and Socks ✓
Go See Santa at Cabela’s ✓ - We always have to check out the taxidermy animals and see the aquarium while there. And this year the boys got me to buy them those giant stuffed reindeer. We also ended up visiting Santa at The Durham Museum.
Go See Werner Park Lights ✓
Hot Chocolate bar ✓ - We tried Mint, French Vanilla, and Amaretto. Arthur and Quentin loved the Amaretto best and I really enjoyed the French Vanilla.
Meet the reindeer
Go for a hike and get pine cones
Puzzle Day ✓ - This year’s selection was Christmas cats!
Make Gingerbread Cookies ✓ - Quentin was a big helper coating the cookies with sugar.
Visit Lauritzen Gardens
Coop Christmas Party
Decorate Gingerbread Houses ✓ - Always a disaster, but we love it.
Drive around and see the lights
Fantasy of Lights
Botanical Gardens Christmas Display
Cookie Decorating
Dinner at Coney Island and Visit to Santa Lights
Christmas music dance party
Watch The Grinch
24 Days of Christmas Books
Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
Gingerbread Christmas by Jan Brett
Catch that Cookie by Hallie Durand
Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow
The Wheels on the Bus at Christmas
The Library Gingerbread Man by Dotti Enderle
Who Will Pull Santa's Sleigh by Russ Willms
The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup
Dream Snow by Eric Carle
Snow Globe Wishes by Erin Dealey
The Dinosaurs' Night Before Christmas by Anne Muecke
Olive, the Other Reindeer by J. Otto Seibold
Santa in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson
Santa's Secrets Revealed by James Solheim
Comet, the Unstoppable Reindeer by Jim Benton
A Polar Story in the Snow by Mac Barnett
Snow by Sam Usher
The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett
Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett
Snow is Fun by Steve Henry
Little Fox in the Snow by Jonathan London
Good Night, Reindeer by Denise Brennan-Nelson
How Santa Really Works by Alan Snow
Snow Friends by Margery Cuyler
A Chick n Pug Christmas by Jennifer Sattler
Mouse's Night Before Christmas by Tracey Corderoy
The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Last Stop on the Reindeer Express by Maudie Powell-Tuck
The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy
Martin MacGregor's Snowman by Lisa Broadie Cook
What the Dinosaurs Did the Night Before Christmas by Refe and Susan Tuma
Hurry, Santa! by Tomie dePaola
One Wild Christmas by Nicholas Oldland
Vegetables in Holiday Underwear by Jared Chapman
T. rex at Swan Lake by Lisa Carrier and Lenore Hart
The Nutcracker's Night Before Christmas by Keith Brockett
Five Busy Elves by Patricia Hegarty
Snow by Roy McKie
The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood
Ten Ways to Heart Snow by Cathy Camper
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
Other Holiday Movies Watched
The Man Who Invented Christmas
A Christmas Wish
Single All the Way
Love Hard
Encanto - We went to the movie theater for this one!
Next up on the TBR pile:
