

Open the first door of your jigsaw advent calendar, it’s completely FREE to play! We hope this will bring you and your children some jigsaw joy in the lead-up to Christmas day. To help with today’s mission we have a FREE advent calendar and FREE Xmas activity pack which includes a printable advent tree, ready for you to decorate…
#Big day countdown free update
The snow has fallen and all our lovely Christmas games and activities are now live!Įach day throughout the countdown to Christmas the Monsters will set you a Monster Mission which we’ll update here… Day 1: 24 Sleeps to go… Today’s Monster Mission: Begin your Christmas countdown! It is officially Christmas in the Busy Things world. Make sure you’re following us on social media to see everything that the Yellow Monsters get up to! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! Let the Merry Monster Mayhem commence!


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Well, not only have they planned another escape from Busy Things this year, they have gone BIGGER and BETTER with their Merry Mayhem! The Monsters will be setting you Merry Missions each day, giving you FREE access to festive games and FREE printable activities!! If you liked this post you’ll love our giant Birthday Card Candy Grams (they’ve been downloaded 35,000+ times!) or you can find all my other birthday posts here.They’re back!! You may remember our Yellow Monsters causing all sorts of mischief in the run up to Christmas last year? Here’s just a little snippet of what they got up to…
#Big day countdown free download
If you’d like to make your own countdown just download the free template by clicking the “Download Here” button below: We’ve gotten several compliments on our birthday door and I can’t wait until we’re down to the final days! (This countdown is also a nice reminder for forgetful parents – such as myself – so I know how many days I have left to buy a gift.) We’ve already started our countdown (only twenty-four days left – just ask my daughter!) and it’s the first thing we do each morning. This entire project took us less than one hour and we had so much fun putting it together. (Definitely optional, but I included the template for them as well!) We also cut out little spirals of paper to look like confetti string. …we made some balloons out of construction paper and added some curling ribbon. It looked good – but I thought we could use something extra, so… Once you’re done just hang up with some tape! Here’s how our countdown looked when it was completed. Add as many – or as few – candles as you wish! Since my daughter is turning four, we attached four candles to the top. Then use the Glue Dots to assemble each layer. To make the birthday cake, I suggest cutting out each piece and lining them up the way you want to assemble them. I love the look of paper chains – especially colorful ones! This project is so much fun and it’s easy for little ones to help along the way! Repeat until you’ve used the last slip of paper.Curl the ends of together and tape as you did before. Feed the next strip of paper through the middle of the first link.Apply a piece of tape so it stays together in a circular shape. Take one strip of paper and curl around so the two ends meet. I assume the majority of you have made a paper chain before, but just in case you haven’t – here are some simple steps! We love the way it turned out (just look at that smile!) so I made our template into a free download. Each link on the chain has a number on it – counting down from 30 to my daughter’s birthday. How fun is that?!?! Besides being colorful and festive (my son calls it a “party-on-the-door”), it’s also functional. (She’s in preschool and loves numbers and counting, so it’s a win-win!)Įnter: the Birthday Cake Countdown chain! My daughter’s fourth birthday is the first of our “busy season” so I thought we’d do something special and create a countdown to her big day. So I apologize in advance for the onslaught of birthday posts coming your way! That’s right, FOURTEEN.īesides spending a small fortune on gifts, birthday season is characterized by parties, cakes, and attempting to make each person feel special on their big day. Birthday season is a ten week span sandwiched in between spring and summer where we have fourteen family birthdays. There are five seasons in our household: summer, fall, winter, spring, and…birthday season.
