Odbrojavanje do Božića - Counting down till Christmas

Ove godine smo prvi put pravile adventski kalendar. Na internetu možete pronaći more ideja, mada smo mi na ovu došli sami.

Potrebno vam je sledeće:

A konačan proizvod izgleda ovako:

Kutijice smo obmotale trakama (da radim ponovo, ne bih ih obmotavala, već bih samo na gornju stranicu nalepila jedno parče trake) i zalepile na karton. Prilikom lepljenja je Ema vežbala pisanje brojeva, što se vidi iz priloženog :)

Ipak, ključni deo adventskog kalendara nije samo u tome da ga napravite, već da ga ispunite. Običaj je da se u kutijice (ili prozorčiće) stave slatkiši ili neke druge sitnice. Slatkiša nikad dovoljno, barem kada se klinci pitaju, a sitnica po kući imamo i previše (verujem da je stanje i kod vas isto - ništa lepše nego kad usred noći bosi nagazite na malog ponija). Takođe, kako sezona praznika tek počinje, poklona će biti i previše, pa vremenom sve to i gubi onaj pravi smisao Božića. Stoga sam se odlučila da uradim i nešto drugo. Prva kutijica je sadržavala dve kiki bombone, druga jedan balon, a ostale će imati i neku kreativnu notu. Opcije su mi za sada ove:

1. pronašla sam u časopisu sliku Dore i isekla na kvadratiće kao slagalicu, u dnu slike sam ispisala „Tamo gde uveče spustiš glavu, pronaći ćeš nagradu malu“, pa kada Ema složi slagalicu videće tekst i nadam se znati da treba da pronađe pokončić ispod jastuka.

2. isekla sam sliku zeke sa kutije Neskvika na trake, sa istom idejom slaganja slagalice (pošto ti delovi neće moći stati u kutijicu od šibica, u kutijici će biti papirić sa tekstom: „Ova kutijica je suviše mala da bi nagradica u nju stala“, pa onda uputstvo gde pronaći slagalicu, itd.

3. kod Kineza sam našla malu kutijicu sa desetak cvetića i parčetom najlona, od čega treba da se napravi narukvica ili ogrlica (mada takav kompletić možete napraviti i sami)

4. poklončić mogu biti i ulaznice za pozorište, bioskop, muzej ili nešto što dete zanima

5. planiram da napravim i ulaznice za „kućni bioskop“, odnosno jedno veče gledanja nekog dugometražnog crtaća sa celom porodicom i kokicama

Dakle, mogućnosti su velike, pustite mašti na volju :)

P.S. Ujutru mnogo lakše i brže ustajemo za vrtić!

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This is the first time we made our own advent calendar. There are lots and lots of ideas on the internet, but we came up with our own.

 

What you need is the following:

• 24 empty matchboxes
• decorative tapes
• glue
• scissors
• a piece of thicker paper to glue the boxes on

We glued the tapes around the boxes (if I had to do this again I would glue only one small piece of tape on top of the box, not around it) and then glued the box onto the green paper. Ema practiced writing numbers (which you, no doubt, see for yourself).

 

 

Still, besides making the calendar, the fun of it is finding out what's inside it every morning. I am not a huge fan of feeding kids chocolate every morning or giving them trinkets that they will forget about after an hour or so (I'm sure you can relate to that, especially after stepping barefoot onto a tiny "little pony" in the middle of the night) just for the sake of giving. Also, the kids will get so many presents for Christmas, that it sometimes gets too much and loses all meaning. So the first box contained a candy, the second one a balloon, and then I thought of some more creative ideas.

 

1. I've cut up a picture of Dora the Explorer from some magazine and made a puzzle. At the bottom of the picture I've written a note: Where you lay your head in the evening, you can find a present waiting. Forgive me, but in Serbian this rhymes and sounds much better :) The note gets separated in different pieces of the puzzle, so you can read it only after putting the puzzle together.When Ema finished the puzzle, we read the note and she rushed off to her bedroom to find her prize.

 

2. I put a note in the box saying that the box is too small to contain a surprise (again, it rhymes in Serbian) and put clues as where to find the pieces of the puzzle (I've cut up the box of Nesquick, the one with the rabbit on it, and turned it into a puzzle).

 

3. You can make small kits for making bracelets (beads and a piece of string), so that your child can make a piece of jewelry.

 

4. I thought of putting tickets for the cinema, theatre or museum, depending on what we can manage to see in December.

 

5. I am also planning to make tickets for a "home movie night", for watching a full length cartoon with the whole family and lots of popcorn.

 

So, be creative and let you imagination run wild. You know what your child likes and enjoys, and this is a good way to start of the Christmas fun.

 

P.S. And it's a great way to get your kids to get up earlier for kindergarten :)