Advent Calendar

I made a new advent calendar this year.  We didn't need a new one but I saw this idea and LOVED it.  I got the printables for the numbers here.  I already had a 12x12 piece of sheet metal from a gift I was given years ago.  I covered it with a piece of scrapbook paper and added a piece of ribbon for the hanger.

On the inside glued the cute printables from the same website as the numbers.  There are some preprinted as well as blank.  The only one I used preprinted was the Christmas day one.  I have seen so many cute ideas for things to do during December such as: make cookies, make ornaments, build a snowman etc.  However my kids are a little older and honestly we just don't have time to do all kinds of great things like that and there is really no snow in Maryland I decided to only have activities on the weekends.  A few of the activities are, driving around looking at lights, a live nativity, going to a train garden and going to the temple lights.  The rest of the days I just left blank.

Each day I put in 3 kisses.  One for each kid.  And to make them somewhat special (though that may only be for me because I doubt they care) I used these adorable printables.  Punched them out and stuck them on all 75 kisses. Just and FYI, you can only fit 3 kisses in each little tin.