This year we had added some new advent activities. One of them is a Lego Advent Calendar. I really wanted to buy the boys a Lego Advent Calendar but it was just not in the budget this year and I would have to buy two of them which were definitely not in the budget. (trust me on this~fighting would ensue if there were just one!).
Soooo......I decided to do the next best thing and make my own. I got the idea from a gal on the FIAR board.
I thought and thought how I could go about this and finally came up with this idea. Remember these from Halloween? I decided these would be my container for the calendar. I headed for Dollar Tree and picked up 25 of these little buckets (yes I refrained from buying a bucket for each of them. I figured they could at least share that much!). I also picked up a package of Christmas napkins and got started.
These are two-ply napkins, so I separated them. Then I cut the largest peppermint swirls off the napkins and decoupaged them onto the buckets with Mod Podge.
Oh I added a little bit of fine glitter to the Mod Podge to give it a little sparkle.
Then I took four small (2 of each) sets of Lego Creator kits that are Christmas themed for about $6 each. Then I took small baggies and divided up the pieces for each day for each boy. They each get 3 or 4 pieces each day to try to figure out what it is. I numbered each bucket from 1-25 with a fine point sharpie marker and set them up on one of our bookshelves.
Here are our buckets all set up and ready to go!
Getting their first pieces!
building to try and figure out what it is.
Justin thought maybe this was right.....close but not quite.
Then he thought maybe it went like this....hmmmm
Kaden felt it was a windmill and that was what he stuck with. I loved watching them come up with different ideas as to what it might be......
While this was not completely frugal (I spent about $30 between the buckets, napkins and Lego sets) it was much cheaper than spending $60+ on two Lego Advent Calendars. If we decide to do this next year I will already have the buckets!
What? You want to know what it is? Stay tuned!
I thought and thought how I could go about this and finally came up with this idea. Remember these from Halloween? I decided these would be my container for the calendar. I headed for Dollar Tree and picked up 25 of these little buckets (yes I refrained from buying a bucket for each of them. I figured they could at least share that much!). I also picked up a package of Christmas napkins and got started.
These are two-ply napkins, so I separated them. Then I cut the largest peppermint swirls off the napkins and decoupaged them onto the buckets with Mod Podge.
Oh I added a little bit of fine glitter to the Mod Podge to give it a little sparkle.Then I took four small (2 of each) sets of Lego Creator kits that are Christmas themed for about $6 each. Then I took small baggies and divided up the pieces for each day for each boy. They each get 3 or 4 pieces each day to try to figure out what it is. I numbered each bucket from 1-25 with a fine point sharpie marker and set them up on one of our bookshelves.
Here are our buckets all set up and ready to go!
Getting their first pieces!
building to try and figure out what it is.
Justin thought maybe this was right.....close but not quite.
Then he thought maybe it went like this....hmmmm
Kaden felt it was a windmill and that was what he stuck with. I loved watching them come up with different ideas as to what it might be......While this was not completely frugal (I spent about $30 between the buckets, napkins and Lego sets) it was much cheaper than spending $60+ on two Lego Advent Calendars. If we decide to do this next year I will already have the buckets!
What? You want to know what it is? Stay tuned!
6 comments:
That is such a great idea! My son would love to do this, he's a lego fanatic!rer
Aren't you the creative one!
Great idea!
Great Idea!!!
Really good idea. I never would have thought of it.
Blessings
diane
I LOVE this idea!!
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