Family Advent Calendar

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Family Advent Calendar

This is a fun family sized advent calendar. Most years I make our advent calendar, in the past I have used a cardboard box separated into compartments, plastic trading card sleeves and my favorite, the 24 count mini muffin tin. For our family advent calendar this year used my muffin tin and went with different flavors of Hershey's Kisses since they have lots of kinds available for Christmas including sugar cookie! 
Since the kids are getting a bit older I've added a level of difficulty this year by adding a search and find o find the door of the day. On a peice of wrapping paper I stuck the same set of stickers but with numbers on the picture. They have to find the number and the picture on the paper and then find the same picture on the advent calendar.

What you need:
  • 24 count mini muffin tin 
  • 24 round gift tags
  • Christmas stickers (2 identical sheets of 24 stickers)
  • Hershey's Kisses (I chose4 different kinds to change it up from day to day)
  • 1 large piece of cardboard and wrapping paper to cover it.
What to do:
  1. Devide  the chocolate into packs of 4 (or number of people in the family, 4 chocolate kisses fit perfectly in one mini muffin cup.)
  2. Place one set of stickers on the gift tags. Hot glue or tape the tags over the muffin tin cups.
  3. On the other set of stickers write numbers from 1-24. 
  4. Wrap the cardboard with the wrapping paper. Place the stickers on peice of wrapping paper.
Starting December 1st search and find the sticker and number for each day.
Merry Christmas!



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