DIY Advent Calendar

I think this is it. No more crafts for the rest of the holiday season. Just living, loving, enjoying. Everything I am going to make has been made. Now I just get to share with you!

Inspired by some facebook friends, I wanted to make an advent calendar that had 25 simple family activities for us to enjoy from now until Christmas.

Here is what I started with:

• canvas (I used this one from the entryway since I wanted to only use things we have instead of heading to a store)
• red burlap that has been sitting in my craft box just dying to be used
• staple gun
• a ball of twine
• clothespins
• upholstery tacks
• paper

I wrapped the canvas in the burlap and stapled it down. Easy peasy.
Then I had this:

Then I cut twine to the length I wanted. These can be cut shorter or longer depending on your preference of dangling-ness.
Then used the upholstery tacks to attach the twine to the canvas wrapped in burlap. Aren’t my toes cute?

Then I cut my paper so I had 25 pieces, folded them in half so I could write an activity inside, wrote the numbers outside, and hung them from the twine with clothespins. You could use paperclips or any other cute form of attachment. I was just using what I had. And you could use black marker. I only had crayon. Oh well.