Homemade Christmas Countdown!

You don't have to be super crafty to create a fun christmas calendar for your child! It's so easy and you can bring as much texture into the project as you want.

Texture Santa Calendar

Not dry but you get the idea.

Here's what you need:

• Printed picture of Santa ( I googled printable Santa face) print 2 or 3
• Glue
• Cardboard backing to secure your Santa Calendar to. I used the bottom of a box.
• Cotton Balls
• Scissors
• Felt (Optional)
• Paints (Optional)
• Holly leaves (I used some from our yard)

My goal was to incorporate as much texture as possible into this project. I cut out shapes for the hat and the border of the hat in felt and glued that onto the picture. I glued a cotton ball to the end of the hat and used 1/2 a cotton ball to make each side of the mustache. I used paint to create holly berries and three real holly leaves from the yard. You could even add googly eyes if you had ones the right size.

So every day in December you add another cotton ball to Santa's beard and by Christmas it will be full! You could use braille numbers to count to 25 but I think this year we will just use big black dots as our markers. He can find a dot with his finger and then we will glue a new cotton ball on every night.

You could modify this craft for Hanukkah buy adding a puff of flame to the menorah every night!

I can't wait for this thing to dry so we can get started filling in that beard!