Advance calendar for the new year. New Year's Advent calendar for children (with tasks). Geometric lacing

Expectation of the holiday can be no less exciting and joyful than the celebration itself. The fashion for creating advent calendars came relatively recently, along with other overseas traditions. Advent calendar clearly shows how many days are left until the main winter holiday- Christmas, but nowadays it is more often done with the indication of the days of December, i.e. counts down the days until the New Year.

The main task of such a craft is to create a New Year's mood and decorate the interior. By the way, it will do a good job if you teach your child numbers and navigate the calendar.

Create unusual decor the interior is possible using a slate board. Draw numbers on it with chalk, pull the strings under them, on which fasten with clothespins new Year decoration... Complete the entourage with a garland or. The magic island of the holiday is ready!

Try making a calendar with colorful paper cups with numbers. Every day you can leave unexpected "amenities" for household members in them: sweets, funny notes, etc.

A great idea is to count the days remaining before the holiday using linen bags with numbers, you can also put small pleasant surprises in them. The photo shows both ideas in two versions.

Make them resemble Christmas trees and glue on each number. You can put sweets or small gifts for children inside.

If there is in the house, decorate it on top with multi-colored felt “coins” with numbers-days.

The calendar in the form of sweets looks beautiful and appetizing. They can be made from fabric or from bright wrapping paper, reinforced inside with a cardboard frame.

And here is the product in the form of a garland of flags.

An interesting gift for kids is a calendar with (they will be an excellent decoration and educational material).

If the arsenal has plastic cups with lids, wrap them in foil, glue the numbers of the holiday month and put them in a pyramid.

If you cut out boots from red thick paper, glue white fur, loops on top and draw numbers, you will get an excellent Santa-style craft.

An edible Christmas calendar can be made with cookies garnished with icing or marzipan.

All the ideas presented in the photo are bright and outstanding, choose the one that you like best and start implementing it!

Hey, Dear friends my blog! I haven't started writing an article yet, but the mood is already festive. Still would! Indeed, today we will be inspired by magical ideas and create a New Year's Advent calendar 2018. Consider interesting options so that each of you can make it with your own hands, even if you are not used to needlework! I will also give you a lot of cool ideas for assignments and Advent content. These 2 lists are my little present for you to make the calendar delightful and fun.

I don’t know about you, but for two or three years I have been trying to make an Advent calendar for my son. However, all the time something was in the way. That fantasy was not enough, then the mood, then the time. But this time I will definitely do it. Just the age of the child is the most suitable (5 years), and you can come up with many interesting tasks, and the youngest will be a year old, she will also get something.

While I was looking for possible options for Advent calendars for the upcoming 2019 for myself and you, many times I came across interesting variations in almost any kind of needlework. So, if you like to sew, you can sew on New Year's bags made of multi-colored fabric or sew a figure of Santa Claus with pockets. Pockets made of felt, or with stripes from it in the form of snowflakes and figures, look very beautiful.

If you like to embroider, you can embroider a picture with a New Year's motive on the fabric, and sew pockets under the picture for all days, decorating them with symbolically small elements. By the way, if you take not an ordinary fabric, but a plastic canvas, then the work will keep its shape, it is easier to hang it on the wall and it will look even more unusual.

For those who know how to knit - prepare multi-colored socks or caps, bags. For those who are fond of scrapbooking - decorate matchboxes, or full-fledged boxes, make a loose-leaf calendar. You can also make an Advent album in which interesting tasks will be hidden in the pockets, and next to them is a subsequently printed photograph of how the child coped with them. How cool did I come up with?)

If you like to bake, then look in the direction of gingerbread houses, or just figurines made of dough - snowmen, little men, snowflakes, etc. With protein cream, write the corresponding numbers on them, and then just make sure that the child does not eat all the creations for joy.

But even if you do not know how to do this, do not rush to get upset! After all, an advent calendar can be made using any available means - multi-colored, and even ordinary white paper, cut out or ready-made snowflakes, plastic cups, jars from under baby food, wooden planks, beads, lace, stickers, tin buckets, boxes, colorful socks, caps and much more. What your imagination is enough for.

Advent calendar what is it

I was so carried away by ideas that I almost forgot to tell you, Advent calendar, what it is all about. Surely, my inquisitive readers will be interested to know how it came about. In general, the word Advent came from religion, which means the period of the beginning of the Nativity Fast (adventus - parish). While waiting for the Nativity of Christ, people carefully prepared for it.

Of course, the adults knew exactly how much time was left before the Holiday. But how to convey this to children, the adults decided for themselves. For example, the ingenious Lutheran theologian Wychern resolved this issue in the following way. He simultaneously raised several ruffles, whom he took to his house from the poorest families. And each of them bombarded our hero with questions, when will Christmas come.

Soon he got tired of it. Still would. Tired of endless questions, he simply left home before the holidays. Joke. He made a wreath from a large wooden wheel. So what, you might think. So, this wheel was carefully decorated with candles, small of which were lit in turn every day. Big on Sundays. After that, the children themselves clearly saw and calculated when the long-awaited day would come.

But this is not an isolated example. Thanks to similar questions from another child, his mother somehow baked 24 meringues, attaching them one at a time to paper. Her little Gerhard Lang would pick them off and eat them one by one a day. Growing up, inspired by this idea, he suggested printing a waiting calendar at the printing house where he worked.

So, back in 1903, the first printed Advent came out in Germany. It consisted of pictures of toys and Christmas poems. In addition, the kids could glue special stickers over the windows with poems. This created a real sensation, and soon other companies began to develop their own calendars.

The popularity of Advent has experienced ups and downs, and even depends on the situation in the world. So, in times of war and famine, soldiers and guns appeared instead of Christian symbols and cute pictures. During food shortages, the use of chocolate and sweets was discontinued.

Now these calendars are popular all over the world again. You've probably seen chocolate sets with opening doors on sale? In addition to these, they are sold in the form of books, toys and posters. But more interesting for the child, probably, still remain those that are made by hand.

And by the way, it is not necessary to make such a calendar in secret from the child! If you start tinkering with it together, then in addition to joy and entertainment, you will bring many more benefits and emotionally close while creating together! And what could be more precious than childhood memories?

The beauty of Advent Calendars is that children are immersed in the magical anticipation of the New Year. And so that they do not get bored, you can help to cope with the agonizing anticipation, teach the countdown of days and times, and at the same time spend time with benefit.

How to do it? Every day the child receives a small task that accompanies a new number on the calendar. Try to make them really interesting, not just educational, and carry the winter theme. You know better what is best for your child.

Advent calendar assignments for kids

And I will offer just a small list of ideas for tasks in the Advent calendar. Some of them are educational, some are entertaining. I think from 50 points you will choose something interesting for yourself!

Learn the dance of little ducklings, and dance with the whole family
Do christmas tree toy
Cut out the snowflakes
Learn a New Year's poem
Do any good deed
Learn and perform a New Year's song
Make a bird feeder and feed them
Bake cookies or decorate your mom's
Make a gingerbread house with mom
Go skiing / sledding / skating
Watch New Year's movie
Decorate the house for the holiday, decorate the Christmas tree
Make a gift
DIY postcards
Blind snowmen on the street
Play snowballs
Do experiments with water, ice
Come up with plans for next year
Write a list of achievements and interesting events for the current year
Go to the theater
Come up with your own idea of the house
Any creative work that is interesting to the child (burn out, tinker, build, sculpt, draw, embroider ...)
Complete a quest on a specific topic
Arrange a family photo session
Visit or invite to your place
Throw a masquerade party
Go to the cinema
Launch firecrackers, fireworks in the street
Take your family to the winter forest
Read a book about winter or the upcoming holidays
Find out how the new year is celebrated in different countries
Write a letter to Santa Claus
Take a walk around the city decorated before the holidays
Go with the whole family to a cozy cafe
Compose your own fairy tale
Choose or make a suit for the new year
Make carnival masks
Make homemade ice cream
Play board games with family or friends
Make an album with photos
Girls do new hairstyle, boys update their haircut
Pass the quiz, solve the crossword puzzle
Make a garland (from paper, beads, cardboard or other materials)
Make homemade modeling dough
To cook salty dough, make figures and color them
Come up with a New Year's wall newspaper for the whole family
Make candied tangerine peels
Arrange a warm family evening with candles, sincere conversations and goodies on the table
Make funny fortune notes for New Year's Eve
Collect puzzles

Share in the comments more tasks that you can add to this list!

Advent calendar content ideas

These were assignments. But these calendars can be filled with all sorts of surprises that surprise and delight children. And even if they do not fit into the designated compartments, this is not a reason to refuse them. Prepare, for example, a holiday package, and the child will know that every day a present will be waiting for him there. Below is a huge list of ideas to put in:

Sweets - both purchased and homemade (kinders, cookies, chocolates, marmalade, marshmallow, marshmallows, chupa-chups ...)
Nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits in beautiful packages
Small figures (soldiers, animals, etc.)
Hairpins, hair ties
Cosmetics for children
Pencils, wax crayons, felt-tip pens, stamps, paints, brushes, plasticine, etc.
Stickers, including New Year's for windows
Blanks for creativity
Child's collectibles
Air balloons
Small toys
Coloring Pages
Bubble
Baby books
Kaleidoscope
Rubik's cube and other puzzles
Puzzles.
Face painting
Compass, city map
Lantern
Funny mittens or socks
Unusual mug
Stencils for drawing
Bath toys
Constructors
Stand for markers and pens
Movie tickets and other events
Magazines
Slime.
Antistress toys.
Children's tie or bow tie.
Engraving set
Children's thermos
Sequins, glitter
Glow-in-the-dark markers
Rubber jumpers
Clapperboards
Bengal lights
Serpentine
Molds for kinetic sand or creating plaster figures
Small mirror
Nice hairbrush or comb
Sky paper lantern
Doll furniture
Children's sword for games
Handbag, cosmetic bag or backpack
A beautiful pencil case.
Notepad
Colorful block for notes
Snezhkolep
Bath bombs
Aroma candle
Ringbros
Road checkers or backgammon
Magnets
Crystal Growing Kit
Reflectors on clothes
Bell or other bicycle accessories
Sports water bottle
Carnival accessories
Decoration
Clothes badges
Flashlight lamp
Musical instruments (tambourines, accordions, pipes ...)
Mosaic
Hand toys
Finger theater
Matryoshka
Checkbox
Fun toothbrush
Ice cream molds
Ice Freezers
Multicolored juice tubes
Money box
Children's wallet
Spirograph for drawing
Water polo toy
Towel expanding in water
Tattoo Stickers
Trinket
Calendar

Do you like lists? I am 100% sure that you yourself would not give up such wealth if you were a child. But what can I say, some items will be nice to get for adults too!

This means that if you have the time and opportunity, you can try and provide suitable gifts and tasks for your husband and for close relatives.

I hope you are filled with inspiration and are already thinking about how to make an Advent calendar 2019 for your children. And that means the most interesting is ahead. Be creative, go for it! Wish you a happy New Year and precious moments!

Until next time, Anastasia Smolinets

Good day to all who dropped in!

A little more than a month remains before the New Year, and some mothers are already thinking about preparing the holiday. More precisely, I think everyone is thinking about the holiday itself, but it is among young mothers (and not very young, this is me about myself) in recent years there has been a tendency to arrange Advent, that is, to organize not only the holiday itself, gifts, refreshments, but also "centralized" preparation for it. What is advent calendar and where did it come from?

Christmas calendar(Adventskalender) is a special calendar in European countries showing the time remaining until Christmas.
By tradition, this is a postcard or a cardboard house with opening windows, where each cell contains a candy, a note with wishes (in religious families - with excerpts from Scripture) or small gifts. Calendars also come in the form of pouches, sachets, handbags or bundles hung on a ribbon. The Advent calendar consists of 24 days, counting from December 1 to December 24, when Christmas is celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Catholic Church.

Since we celebrate more New Year, Advent stretches for 31 days.

In principle, I already told something about Adventure last December, in my review on the Calendar of the Cute`n Clever Company, which made it easier for us to hold Advent and gave me a lot of ideas, but in fact, everything was much more extensive.

I'll tell you my opinion right away. On the one hand, ready-made advent calendars make it easier for moms, but at the same time they are driven into a certain framework. Sometimes it is difficult and even unrealistic to complete a specific task from Advent on a certain day, you have to invent something, replace it, transfer it. Coming up with everything on your own, you will have more options for maneuvers, if anything (the snow did not fall, the frost hit, or vice versa, the rain is pouring, the child is sick, not from the day of the week, etc.). The choice is yours. I am inclined towards a more independent option, especially since you can find a lot of non-trivial ideas on the Internet.

Right now, I myself am starting to look for options for assignments for the future Advent 2019 (as usual, at the last moment), and I will share with you the ideas that we were able to implement last year, waiting for the onset of 2018.

And yes, I want to say thank you again for the tip of the author of PokaDetkaSpit on Advent, it was she who finally inspired me last year!

Initial data: Vika was 3 years and 4 months old, does not go to the garden. We lived at that time in my mother's apartment (this is to the rather cramped conditions in terms of area).

Duration: 31 days, from December 1 to December 31. Again, I comment. There were doubts whether it was worthwhile to start right away for the whole of December, whether my imagination and strength would be enough, whether the child would have enough interest and patience. What's the bottom line? Overall, we did it! Yes, there were a couple of unsuccessful assignments that I rushed with, and in the end I had to do them myself. There were repetitions, but here it was precisely because, on the contrary, I liked something very much, and my daughter constantly asked, "Will Santa Claus send another task like this?" Well, He's kind, he sent.

I really liked the idea of creating whole New Year's villages on window sills or in other places, with snow, houses, snowmen ... But I could not realize this precisely because of the lack of free space. We are not upset, we are trying to implement this year!

In the end, we had this concept: receiving letters from Santa Claus, with different creative assignments, family activities. By fulfilling them, we are bringing the New Year closer.

Two methods were chosen as the frame of reference.

At first, after completing the assignment, we crossed out the last day on the usual calendar for December with a cross in the late afternoon.

Secondly, for each completed task, Vika received from Santa Claus a "treasure" (in the form of a pebble from the Fix Price store), which was thrown into the most unexpected place, but in such a way that it would catch your eye for sure. Naturally, in the end exactly 31 treasures were put into the box.

I will make a reservation that it was a couple of times, when the task of Santa Claus we were different reasons did not have time to complete, then they received a pebble the next day. My daughter was not upset, because she already knew that everything would happen later, Frost would not deceive)

About more large rewards during December Advent. They were, but not every day. Although Grandfather gave such nonsense gifts at the expense of my wallet. These were chocolate Kinders, Play doh paints or jars, coloring books or small magazines with tasks, stickers, ready-made applications, inexpensive toys from the same FP store, New Year's books.

The daughter reacted calmly to the presence / absence of a gift on a particular day.

At the very beginning of Advent December 1 there was just a ready-made calendar, and this is Lotto about the seasons (it seemed to me quite appropriate and symbolic).

By the way, as I already wrote in the review for the finished calendar, at first none of my relatives particularly shared my idea. Mom booted that the child would get tired of all this long before the New Year. Not to mention that "not ours" is a tradition ... The husband did not actively object (his strength goes to the fight against the idea of Halloween), but he did not support it either. But after a while everyone connected! Both mom and husband began to help DM buy small gifts, print necessary materials, but somehow we all together helped Vika to make an applique of glue and various cereals, sprinkling the whole kitchen together)

If someone doubted the success of the idea, then everything became completely clear to me in the spring ... Some time after the noisy holiday, my daughter herself began to constantly remember the New Year and even more previous classes, asking if the New Year is coming soon, what holiday is still you can “wait”, and that's how the idea was born to me to arrange a summer pre-born Advent, but that's a completely different story ... Although, I note that in the summer adventure (her birthday is in August) we had riddles for every day, and now I also want to pick up winter ones.

So, I'll try to remember from photographs what exactly we did for 31 days)! And how it all went.

On the first day, the daughter received the most detailed letter, Grandfather asked for help and speed up the onset of the holiday. I printed the first few letters on the printer. Then my mom found old Soviet New Year cards, and tasks were simply written on them with colored markers. We now store this entire pack. When the eligible postcards ran out, they were transferred back to the printer. Together with the letters, we left blanks for assignments if necessary: coloring books, templates.

On December 2 (I realized that it is more convenient to leave letters not anywhere, but in a special mailbox) and the task was to build this very box together with my parents. We used an ordinary cardboard box from the parcel, wrapping shiny paper, colored scotch tapes and stickers with puppies from Fix Price.

There was one more plasticine applique, a herringbone.

We made snowmen from plasticine (Play doh).

There was also a task that played up the symbol of the year - to mold a treat from play do to dogs.

Coloring pages on the New Year's theme. She printed the blanks on a printer, the note indicated what to paint: finger paints, gouache or watercolor (several times).

Two appliqués made of cereals, also on printed blanks (one of them is a puppy, as the symbol of the year).

Drawing with a glass of multi-colored soap bubbles.

Application "bunny" from cotton pads.

The emerging picture. I drew a snowman in advance on a half of a leaf with white wax crayon, my daughter had to paint over the entire sheet with watercolors and see what would appear.

All these listed tasks, I would call "average" by interest. Of these, I liked cereals more, but my daughter does not really like drawing.

Now I’ll tell you about the tasks that I didn’t like at all. This is to glue a chain of colored paper and cut out snowflakes. Maybe it affected that my daughter was not very friendly with scissors at that time, only then they began to practice cutting more ... But I liked cutting snowflakes myself instead of Vicki, she supervised)

To somehow smooth it out, after some time, closer to NG, Santa Claus left us a pack of ready-made shiny snowflakes of their FP, with which we just needed to decorate the apartment.

They also made Christmas decorations out of self-adhesive paper, I cut and glued them, and my daughter decorated them.

And now I will move on to the tasks that have caused complete delight. They are associated with ice.

Two or three times (repeat just at the request of our daughter) we rescued dinosaurs from the ice captivity, trapped in the freezer and frozen there in a block of ice (apparently, from the Ice Age). They melted ice, pouring hot water from a spoon, helping with salt (development fine motor skills goes very well here).

On the last day, the 31st, I just froze in the water the last of the treasure stones that were previously in other places after completing the assignment, but I knew that there would be little time, since we were going to visit.

Yes, on the 30th we decorated the Christmas tree directly. This was also a task.

And I almost forgot to note that on one of the first days we wrote a letter to Santa Claus about a gift. The form and envelope were bought by my mother at the bookstore.

Returning to the ice theme. The second hit was painting with paints on ice, I also liked it very much, I also repeated it. Everything is simple here, just freeze the water in advance in the form, give it to the child, and periodically rinse the ice in the process so that you can draw several times, not forgetting to take a picture of the resulting beauty)

Isn't ice beautiful?

And there was also drawing with colored ice cubes on sticks. But it didn't work out very well, perhaps I added a little paint to each cube, the ice painted pale ... (who did this, tell us in the comments how it went?). But then we merrily mixed the remnants of multi-colored ice cubes in a glass (well, mixing colors in general is our thing)).

Another fun on-site experiment is painting snow with multi-colored water from ... no, not spray cans, but from bottles of hydrolates. The first attempt ended pretty quickly, we got into a blizzard in the park, and the second time I matched my husband's schedule and the suitable weather, and we managed to make such a terrible snowman-traffic light)) Cons - the sprayers quickly clog up, start to stick, I got stained in the paint all gloves (but you understand that you never regretted it!))

I really liked the making of ice toys and hanging them on the street (they were made in ice cream molds from FP, they resemble icicles in shape, complementing them with dry twigs of thuja, shiny foil).

And of course, a colorful ice garland! Here I give practical advice: pre-collect plastic (not cardboard) egg trays and check for water permeability, some are leaking. Our garland hung in the yard for a long time, however, we did not find the tree close, we decorated the bush)

Another of the outgoing events was a visit to the ice rink (the first for Vika). I think the impression was very memorable.

I probably forgot something, but I think I conveyed the main idea. What we didn’t do that year was cooking different New Year's meals, cookies / gingerbread. This year we will definitely, my daughter just woke up an interest in cooking. And I really want to include in the plan a visit to some beautiful place in the center of Moscow with New Year's illumination. In the fall, we really enjoyed the walk on Chistoprudny Boulevard with projection lights!

And, of course, where can we go without New Year's cartoons and books! This is already a traditional part of preparing for the holiday.

In conclusion, according to tradition, it is necessary to highlight the merits of the "object" of the review, in this case, phenomena Advent calendar.

Many different interesting activities that develop the creative abilities of the child.
A magical atmosphere of immersion in a fairy tale, and not only for a child.

I noticed, unfortunately, in recent years that somehow I don’t really look forward to the holiday, I’m not in the mood, hello old age. Routine, unnecessary cleaning, inflated prices, eternal traffic jams, and then on the list of grumblings. But New Year Advent Calendar is able to revive faith in miracles even among adults, plunge into the atmosphere of expectation of magic.

3. Cohesion of the whole family, creation and preservation of family traditions

4. Helps the child to better imagine the time remaining for the main holiday of the year.

5. It's just a lot of fun!

Mark as a minus the time spent on preparation and small funds, my tongue will not turn (more precisely, my hand))

Thank you all for your attention and pleasant pre-holiday bustle!

As soon as I found out about such interesting tradition As an Advent calendar, I immediately wanted to try to introduce this custom in our family. True, last year I was a little worried that my daughter, at the age of 2, might not understand the whole essence of the tradition, or she would be too “tired of waiting” for the holiday with such advance preparation. But, as it turned out, all the worries were in vain, the daughter was delighted with such an interesting preparation for the holiday and the surprises that awaited her every day on the Advent calendar. Therefore, this year the miraculous calendar will once again decorate our pre-holiday days.

After all, the sweetest thing in any holiday is the expectation of the holiday. And together with the New Year's Advent calendar, it is much more fun to wait. Thanks to him celebration atmosphere the house will reign long before the New Year. In addition, he will help to better acquaint the child with the holiday, to involve him in an interesting creative process. The Advent calendar every day tells the child what interesting events they are waiting for him today, what surprises and tasks Santa Claus has prepared for him that day.

In this article I want to talk about how you can arrange a New Year's Advent calendar, what tasks and gifts can be included in it. When my daughter was 2 years old, our Advent calendar was designed only for the last 10 days of the outgoing year. It seems to me that this is the most optimal duration for this age. This year, I plan to start early and extend the pleasure for 20 days.

Advent calendar decoration

On the Internet, you can find a huge number of the most different ideas DIY calendar design. Basically, advent calendars are made so that for each day of waiting there is a small container in which you can put little surprise for a child. The capacity can be pockets, drawers, socks, jars, cardboard houses, etc. If the gift does not fit in the box, you can put a note “Look for the gift under the pillow” or attach a photo of the place where the gift is hiding. All containers are marked with numbers that correspond to the number of days left before the holiday.

Option 1

This year, our Advent calendar is a small town made of cardboard houses. These are mainly small one-story houses, but there are also two-story and even three-story buildings. To make small houses, I used templates found on the Internet, I used different ones for a change, here are the ones that I liked the most: pattern 1, pattern 2, Pattern 3... I deliberately cut the bottoms of all the templates, otherwise how can I get gifts from the houses if they are airtight? (Just in case, here the same templates with bottoms). Layouts are printed on colored cardboard in A3 or A4 format, cut out, glued with PVA glue and you're done!

I made two- and three-story buildings according to the logic of Template 2, only I changed the dimensions of the roof and walls. Also, inside the two-story houses there are transverse cardboard partitions so that the gift from the 1st floor does not interfere with the gift from the 2nd floor.

Option 2

Last year, our advent calendar consisted of 10 gnomes based on cylinders. Generally speaking, Santa Clauses were originally conceived, but my daughter found them more similar to gnomes, and I agree with her.

I will briefly tell you about the process of making such gnomes (Santa Clauses). The cylinder is made of A4 colored cardboard, on the back it is secured with tape and a stapler. At the bottom, the bottom is also made of cardboard and fixed with a stapler. It is not difficult to make a gnome's face - for this you only need colored paper, cotton wool and PVA glue. Well, on top, instead of a hat, there is an ordinary sock of an adult. Preferably bright, colorful and not too narrow. from A4 sheet, the cylinders are quite large in diameter. On the side, we sign a number indicating the number of days left before the New Year.

Option 3

And here is our 2017 waiting calendar. This is a town again, but with significant changes. You can read more about it.

New Year Advent Calendar Quests

I put all the tasks in the Advent calendar in the form of short notes. Until my daughter knew how to read, and we were alone, I made short notes with large in block letters reading assignments together. Now that he reads well already, the size of the note does not need to be limited to 2-3 words. ... In general, you can still try to designate tasks in the form of pictures.

Also, every day in the Advent calendar or next to them all the necessary props are put in to complete the task.

So, the options for the tasks:

Decorate a Christmas tree

Decorate the house for the holiday , for example: and other decorations, hang tinsel, decorate windows and mirrors with snowflakes, etc. We love to decorate mirrors with these ready-made sets of glass stickers.

Cook together or .

Write a letter to Santa Claus. If your kid still does not know how to write, this does not mean that you will have to do without this interesting task. Firstly, if the baby already knows the letters, you can try to make words together from the letters or syllables you have prepared in advance. If you have not yet become familiar with the letters, or you do not want to play with them, you can compose a letter from pictures.

Sooner or later, almost every family thinks about the holiday calendar. Young children are not yet very aware of the time, therefore, receiving boxes with sweets and New Year's tasks for 30 days, they can better imagine how much time is left until. The problem is usually that parents remember the calendar too late, when there is very little time and effort to prepare surprises. In December, everyone is already buying gifts and finishing things. That is why we propose to start the New Year's Eve preparations strongly in advance and publish 31 task ideas for the New Year's Eve calendar of expectations.

3 life hacks for those planning a New Year marathon

1. Take a good look at the assignment list before you start making the calendar and buy everything you need: little surprises for the kids, decorations, glitter and glue.

2. Don't try to make a calendar in 1 day. By the 25th assignment, you will get tired of gluing boxes or signing assignment sheets and practically hate the idea. Take your time.

3. Do not do 30 assignments for children under 5 years old: they lose interest in such a calendar already in the second week. 10 days is enough for kids so that the expectation of the holiday does not lose its charm.

30 tasks for the New Year's calendar that will make the anticipation of the holiday joyful

1. Write a letter to Santa Claus
Ideally, this task should be the first one so that the parents can buy the gifts ordered by the child. By the way, Mame.ru has a useful article on this topic "Writing a letter to Santa Claus: instructions for mothers and babies."

Would need: envelope, colored paper, felt-tip pens, glue, glitter.

2. Learn about the traditions of celebrating the New Year in different countries : about the names of Finnish, French, American, Spanish and other Santa Clauses, and how people celebrate the holiday. Prepare yourself, read the article "How they celebrate the New Year in different countries."

Would need: a selection of videos, cartoons, books on the topic (for example, the Book of New Year and Christmas from Mann, Ivanov and Ferber http://www.mann-ivanov-ferber.ru/books/kniga_novogo_goda_i_rozhdestva/).

3. Make snowflakes, Christmas decorations, garlands with your own hands and decorate the house with them
Here our instructions and photo galleries with ideas may come in handy:
10 ways to make a garland
Instructions for cutting snowflakes
Three-dimensional snowflake
DIY Christmas toys
DIY Christmas toys. Part II

Would need: colored and White paper, glue, ornaments for crafts.

4. Start learning New Year's poems and songs
Focus on the child's age and pick up poems that he can remember and love. Do not rush the baby: from new year songs the child should receive positive emotions, not stress.

Would need: A selection of poems and musical compositions to start your day with. Here's a cheat sheet from Mama.ru:
New Year's poems
15 main children's New Year songs

5. Watch cartoons and family films about New Year and Christmas
An excellent excuse to show children the old cartoons "The Night Before Christmas", "The Snowman-Mailer" and others.

Would need: Internet access and a pre-planned list. Prompt:
New Year in cartoons
Review of New Year's films for family viewing

6. Make a bird feeder

Would need: milk or juice cartons, paints or permanent markers, scissors, rope, glue.

7. Go to the New Year's fair or the most elegant New Year's square in the city

8. Make a snowman , paint it with watercolors or dress it in a pre-made suit, which you do not mind leaving in the yard after a walk.

Would need: a hat and a scarf for a snowman, a carrot, paints, brushes, a bottle of water and a glass.

9. Sign and send New Year cards to friends and relatives in advance
Even if close people live in the same city as you, they will be pleased to receive a congratulation signed by a child's hand by mail.

Would need: find out in advance the exact addresses of the recipients and buy a set of postcards with stamps.

10. Make an ice Christmas tree toy and hang it on a tree or bush in your yard
Freeze a glass of water in the refrigerator, in which you can place jewelry and a small piece of wire, behind which you can hang the toy.

Would need: plastic cups, paints, tinsel or other decorations, a roll of rope or wire.

11. Release bubble in the cold
Not all children think of trying to do this in winter. Believe me, in winter they will have a lot of discoveries when blowing bubbles in frost!

Would need: bottle of soap bubbles.

12. Bake Christmas cookies
The perfect weekend getaway for the whole family. Children love to cut dough figures and spend time in the kitchen with their parents.

Would need: good recipe New Year's cookies... For example:
We bake stars for the Christmas tree
Ideas for Christmas cookies and other sweets
Decorating Christmas cookies

13. Do a good deed and help someone who needs it
Did you see an ad for an animal shelter in need of food? Grandmother at the crossing hesitates to cross the road? A friend got a sore throat? You and your child have a great chance to do a good deed!

14. Wrap gifts
Do not leave this activity for the last 2 weeks of the outgoing year: you will not be in time anyway. Sweep for yourself now interesting ideas in our selection:
How to Wrap Gifts: Ideas for the New Year

Would need: kraft bags, kraft paper, themed wrapping paper, glitter, scotch tape, ribbons.

15. Make a small Christmas tree from non-traditional materials: dyed pasta, napkins, wire, etc.

Would need: whatever you want - depends on your idea. By the way, be inspired by our stunning photo gallery: What are the trees made of?

16. Design, make and color Christmas decorations from salt dough or homemade clay

Would need: salt dough or clay recipes:
Salt dough crafts
Homemade clay Christmas toys

17. Make snow-covered tree branches

Would need: 2-3 tree branches, salt, glass jar or vase

18. Paint the candle with acrylic paints
Or make a candlestick:
Glass jar candlestick
Candle in lemon

Would need: depends on the chosen idea.

19. Recall and draw or write down the most interesting events of the outgoing year
This is a great way to teach your child to take stock of the year.

Would need: sheet, notebook, pen, markers.

20. To mold the symbol of the year, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden from ordinary or hardened plasticine

Would need: plasticine or modeling dough.

21. Make a sweet Christmas tree with your child
The main thing is not to eat it at once! Step-by-step instruction from Mama.ru.

Would need: Cardboard, scissors, glue / liquid nails, wrapped candies (better than paper ones), paints, brushes

22. Decorate the Christmas tree with the whole family, after purchasing the missing garlands or toys

Would need: tree, decorations, garlands, Christmas tree decorations.

23. Come up with and rehearse a New Year's performance, which will be pleasant to show to grandparents in the first days of the holidays

Would need: scenario.

24. Watch filmstrips or arrange a shadow theater by cutting out fairy-tale characters from paper and inventing a New Year's plot

Would need: a projector for filmstrips, a fairy tale plot, colored paper, scissors, glue, felt-tip pens.

25. Go ice skating or skiing with the whole family
Or arrange fun winter games outside.

26. Invite your friends to your New Year's Eve party
Many kids go on vacation, so meeting up and playing at home before the holidays is a great idea.

27. Learn to draw the main characters of the holiday - Santa Claus and Snow Maiden

Would need: our instruction:
How to draw a Snow Maiden
How to draw Santa Claus

28. Prepare handmade gifts for teachers or educators

Would need: everything that is usually used for crafts.

29. Come up with little surprises for your favorite friends from kindergarten or schools

30. Decorate your entrance and floor
Just don't forget to remove all the snowflakes, garlands and balls later!

Would need: Christmas decorations: toys, garlands, etc.

31. Arrange a family photo session
If possible - in a studio with a thematic decor, if not - then invite your friends and arrange home filming!

Would need: camera and great mood.

Anna Shumovskaya