Temptation abounds in supermarkets with the chocolate advent calendars in store!

BUT – you can avoid these additive fuelled, sugar infused and terrible tasting calendars for your own, homemade thoughtful one!

The one pictured above was made by my 5 year old. She copied the numbers down onto each envelope and clipped them to a piece of string.

We then wrote one activity down on a piece of scrap paper and placed it into each envelope.

These included:

•  Go for a bushwalk
• Made a seed bell for the backyard chooks
• Have a dance off
• donate a present to a giving tree
• Plant some summer seeds
• Write someone a letter and post it.
• Bake a cake
• Go and visit your next door neighbours with a Christmas card.
• Create a new game to play outside.

There are so many options here – so have fun creating your own!

We also created our own chocolates which will be kept in the fridge and eaten each day!

Simple ingredients

•  One block of dark chocolate
• One bowl of Sprinkles

1. Melt the chocolate using the double boiler method.
2. Spoon the chocolate into moulds
3. Place sprinkles over the top!
4. Place in fridge over night.