Advent Activities File Folder

Well, I wanted to do something that would create more memories and have more meaning than the ones we’ve done in the past.  So, I made a simple Advent Calendar out of a file folder that contains a different activity for each day of December.

• Take a file folder (I used red), open it up, and fold the sides into the middle (all you lapbookers know what I mean).

• Take a different color (I used green) piece of card stock and tape (with clear packing tape) to the middle of the opened folder at the top so that you can flip the card stock up.

• Then make 24 pockets using the two colors you used for the the folder and card stock.  You can make the pockets out of colored paper or card stock, whichever you prefer.  I got the template for the pockets from Homeschool Share.

• Then go into whichever typing program you use on your computer and type the numbers 1-24 in big, bold print.  Print them out on a third color of card stock. 

• Put all the pockets together, glue the numbers on to each, and glue the pockets in the appropriate order onto the folder.

• Use your imagination, or search the internet for activity ideas that you can put on the cards.  I made the cards by cutting a 3×5 blank index card in half and gluing an idea on the card.  I typed the ideas on the computer, printed on colored paper, cut out, and then glued to the cards.