advent calenders

After a few days of "xmas, now?" we decided we needed advent calenders!!

So i raided the craft paper stash and came up with these! :-D

Ok, so they are unashamedly '8 year old craft project'-y (well, *slightly* ashamedly..) but the kids love them! lol...

Basically they started off as an almost bare xmas tree, with numbers counting down the days until xmas.. each night the kids cover a number up with a sticker decoration (made out of origami paper!) thus leaving the number of remaining days :-)

And on xmas morning they have a big silver star to put at the top of the tree (zero days to go!) to finish it off! :-D