There’s thirty-six days left until Christmas! We’re getting so close to advent season and counting down to Christmas everyday.
Although we have our normal candy one, this year I thought Mila and I should make another.
Say hello to the Santa Christmas Countdown.
With a square wood piece and a little paint, this Santa Christmas Countdown came to life.
The transformation of this piece is adorable. It started with just paint, then numbers, and each day it’ll be filled with cotton balls.
After filling it up, it becomes Christmas decor for years to come!
I love how easy it is and that Mila loves the idea of filling his beard in. Although I’ll just have her use regular glue for the beard, I’ll go back in and add hot glue so it stays on there.
Didn’t it turn out amazing? I love each step of it, but the cotton balls are my favorite. The added texture just makes it so much warmer and jolly. Just like Saint Nick!
You could DIY this Santa Christmas Countdown OR you could just have me make it for you.
I have a Santa Christmas Countdown listing ready to go on my Etsy shop or you could message me too. Either way, I love this piece so much that I wanted to share it all with you!
Let me know in the comments… Do you have an advent calendar every year? If so, what how do you countdown to Christmas?
Christmas is officially SIX MONTHS away! I can’t believe 2021 is halfway over.
To celebrate the occasion, Mila and I made some Christmas inspired treats. Then, we cleared out some of her older things to give to others. ‘Tis the season of giving.
The three snacks we made were Strawberry Santa’s, marshmallow ‘Olaf’s,’ and frozen hot chocolate.
Each are pretty easy to make. They all include one of Mila’s favorite things: sugar.
For the Strawberry Santa’s here what you’ll need:
Strawberry’s
Whipped cream
Sprinkles
Food coloring
To make this little guy, all you need to do is cut a strawberry in half. Then, add whipped cream to the middle to make Santa’s face and beard and to the top to make the fluff on the top.
A face only Mrs. Claus can love.
I made his eyes with food coloring… I’ll admit, he looks like a creeper. But let’s just say Santa has some shades on. For his mouth, I added a red sprinkle.
Out of the three, this was my personal favorite. Yeah, I know I’m on a strawberry kick this summer.
Mila’s favorite was the Marshmallow Snowmen. she obviously named them Olaf’s.
All you’ll need for these are;
Marshmallows (2 per snowman)
Chocolate chips
Sprinkles
Toothpicks
Food coloring.
Honestly, these are just as easy to assemble.
I stuck the toothpick through both marshmallows to keep the snowman upright. Then, I pushed the chocolate chips in as eyes and buttons. Finally, an orange sprinkle made the perfect nose.
For his smile… I just painted on food coloring because that would have been too many chocolate chips.
I think I also wanted to showcase that I actually know how to paint on a circle to a face.
I think this was Mila’s favorite treat. Mostly because she loves Olaf and the nose made her giggle.
Last but not least, the frozen hot chocolate was so easy to make.
All I did was take a hot chocolate packet, milk, and ice to my blender and mixed it up. It turned o it really good. Then I put it in the Santa mug and topped it off with whipped cream.
After our little snack, we took the time to go through Mila’s old clothes, toys, and baby accessories. I think the sugar rush definitely helped Mila get through it.
It was nice to clear up some closet space for Mila and giveaway a few toys.
I told Mila she was Santa’s little helper. Then reminded her he’s always watching so to keep being a good girl!
Now she won’t take off her Santa headband! We’ve been reading Christmas books and watching Christmas movies too. I guess she’s already excited.
Mila and I had so much celebrating Christmas in July!
It’s always nice to make something special for Mila. AND I love teaching her early on that giving is important.
Ww have a little work to do for when Santa’s not watching, but it’s a start.
If you’re looking for more ways to celebrate Christmas in July or want to have a little party to celebrate, check out how these moms do it:
This past weekend, Mila, my parents, and I walked down to Christmas on the Square. If you’re not local, it’s just a holiday inspired get together with a tree lighting and kid activities. It’s a nice way to see people in the community that you haven’t seen in a while. Everyone’s friendly and it’s one of the reasons why I love living in a small community. Along with all the fun things and people everywhere, the man of the season was there too: Santa Claus.
Seriously just wrote ‘Santa Claus’ in this dooming voice. If that’s any indication of how the rest of the story’s going to go.
Before seeing the big man, Mila was having fun. She’s pretty skeptical of other people, but was enjoying others talking to her and she got a bunch of cookies too. That upped the fun factor. After she started refusing to ride the ponies there, jumping in the bounce house for five minutes, and being over the cold, I spotted Santa.
I was weary she wouldn’t want anything to do with him, BUT there was no line or other kids waiting to see him. A seemingly perfect Christmas opportunity… or so I thought in my head.
It turns out, Mila is extremely anti-Santa and was paralyzed with fear when he went near her. While this was all playing out, my dad made sure to capture Mila’s encounter with Santa this year.
As you can see, it was not a positive one… at all. I’m hoping the next planned time to see him goes a hundred times better, but knowing Mila, it’s pretty unlikely.
Here’s to trying not to scar my child during her second Christmas!
Grey Skies & Rainbow Highs 