Advent Calendar

I have been trying to come up with an advent calendar and this is what I ended up with! I am pretty excited about it! First I measured the back of the picture frame and cut a background fabric the same size. Next I cut images from my nativity fabric to create my own "story of Christmas" picture. I appliqued them onto the background and zig-zag stitched them into place. I then glued that to some cardboard to make is secure. Next I used a staple gun to staple it to the back of the frame.

I glued some Christmas paper to some cardboard, measured it to fit the front of the frame and cut it into 25 puzzle pieces. I then used sticky stuff to attach the puzzle to the Christmas story.

Each day we take off one piece of the puzzle. Each puzzle piece has the name of a Christmas song on it and we sing that song as well.

So far it is super fun and Skeeter gets really excited to take a piece of the puzzle off each day!