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Build a Lego Advent Calendar

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Lego advent calendar

I love Lego building challenges because they are a sneaky way to bring a bit of engineering and STEM fun into your everyday.

But combining Lego, building challenges and candy may just be the best of all.

Most of us, let’s admit, probably have the supplies on hand to challenge our kids to make a Lego advent calendar, like this one from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

Kids can use windows, doors, hinges, and spinning bits to make the compartments for the sweets, and build walls out of all the green and red bricks you can find.

Add trees, snowmen from your Frozen sets, or whatever wintry stuff you have on hand to make it even more fun.

Have you ever made an advent calendar before? I’d love to hear about it!

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  1. Thanks, this has gone to my Lego-passionate g/son. I make all my g/kids an Advent Calendar jars. I use pretty ‘Bon Maman jamjars (I’m in the UK) decorate and fill with 24 of their favourite sweets. I attach a teeny tiny letter from Santa reminding them to be good. Parents tell me they were good when the children were small, watching the number of sweets going down daily was more understandable than opening a window on a card one.

Have you read?

Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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