March 2022 Special Days to Celebrate

Celebrate some fun and wacky holidays this month.  This printable calendar and list will make sure you don't miss any of March 2022's Special Days to celebrate.

September 2021 Wacky and Fun Holidays

Find a reason to celebrate every day of the month with these wacky and fun holidays throughout the month of September.  You'll find everything from Cow Chip Throwing Days to Opposite Day to Bright Pink Lipstick Day and more!

Princess Planner Calendar Printable with One Day on a Page

Plan out your month with this fun Princess printable planner with one day on a page. Each day features a place to put the date, your events, your to do list, and any notes along side your favorite princess in a beautiful pastel swirl background. Get this free planner printable today and get royally organized this month!

Christmas Wiseman: Nativity Advent Calendar Gift Idea Day Three

Celebrate the Christ child this Christmas with a sweet nativity advent calendar to give to those you love this holiday.  Day three is the Christmas wise man who shares his gift of frankincense and the hope of Christ's gifts.

Christmas Wiseman: Nativity Advent Calendar Gift Idea Day Two

Count down the days to Christmas with a sweet gift that will remind those you share with of the true meaning of Christmas with this nativity advent calendar gift idea. Day two tells the story of the wiseman and his gift of gold for the Christ child.

Christmas Angel: Nativity Advent Calendar Gift Idea Day One

Tidings of great joy to you this Christmas season as you count down to Christmas day with this Nativity Advent Calendar gift idea. Day one features Almond joy candies and the Christmas angel bring tidings of great joy.

Christmas Tree Advent Calendar Printable

Countdown the days to Christmas with this fun and free printable Advent Calendar.  Add one of the cute ornaments to the tree each day and Christmas will be here before you know it.

It's December 1st!

And that means only 24 more days until Christmas!!

Are you counting down the days or feeling behind the 8 ball and stressed?  I'm a little of both right now.  I can't wait for Christmas and to see my college kids again, but I haven't completed even one gift yet, or put up any decorations.

But one of my favorite decorations of the holiday season is Advent Calendars. (See all my favorites on our Advent Calendar Pinterest board!)  I love to collect the crazy countdowns and watch the days disapear and the holiday fun appear.

So for the first day of the semi-annual 30 days of Printables, I'm sharing a printable advent calendar Christmas tree!

I love to make my own advent calendars (did you see our Halloween version?)  You can make them with any design or theme and they are so much fun.

I designed this one to be printed on a 8x11 regular piece of  Magnet Sheets.  This way you can add it to your refrigerator and your kids can decorate it when they are bored, or you can count down the days to Christmas to help you get all your baking done.

Simply save the Christmas Tree Advent Calendar printable zip file from here.  (Be sure to save and unzip it or you won't be able to print.)  Then print it on to magnet paper and cut out your tree and ornaments.  There are 25 different ornaments so you can add one each day and the star on Christmas!

Lots of fun for you and the kids!

Halloween Haunted House Magnet Advent Calendar

Let your kids count down to Halloween with this fun Haunted House advent calendar. Once printed on to magnet paper, each piece can be added to the Haunted house to count down the last 13 days until Trick or Treating!

If your kids are anything like mine...they start asking "how long" until Halloween LONG before the big candy day.  It gets a bit crazy with all the decorating and fun Halloween activities for a kid to be able to wait so long to be able to put on their Halloween costume and go trick or treating.

To save my sanity, and to have another reason to decorate, I created a countdown calendar for my kids.  It starts 13 days before Halloween (that's today!) and lets them add one decoration to the Haunted House picture every day.

I decided to put my advent calendar on magnet paper and post it on the fridge.  This made it super easy to create since all I had to do was print it onto Avery Magnet Sheets.  I printed the haunted house picture on one sheet and the thirteen Halloween decorations on another sheet.

Vertical Journal Card

Halloween Decoration Pieces

Then I cut out the Decoration pieces and placed the whole thing on the fridge.  Starting today, the kids could put one decoration per day onto the Haunted house.  When none are left, it's time to go Trick or Treating!

Have you found a way to keep the holiday fun for your kids but not drive you crazy as they wait for candy?

Halloween Candy Countdown Calendar

Celebrate the coming of Halloween by making an easy Candy Countdown Calendar for your kids. This countdown calendar has Hershey kiss candy marking each day to "Have a Sweet Trick or Treat Halloween".  It's not as hard as it looks and is a sweet way to use candy to countdown the days to the sweetest holiday all year.

I know that Halloween is only 12 days away now.

I know that you are probably past decorating for the sweetest holiday all year and have moved on to worrying about costumes.

But I just had to share this fun Halloween candy countdown calendar that I made this weekend.

It was one of those projects that I've wanted to make for years. (I want one for every holiday after seeing these kiss candy countdown calendars.)  But I always felt like it would be hard to make and out of my crafting league.

But this weekend, I found a board that my sisters had cut for me years ago to make this, and I decided "no more excuses" and so I made this candy countdown calendar.

Since it wasn't as hard to make as I thought, I decided to share it with you to give you the courage to go make a project that you've been thinking about for a while, or to even join me in counting down the days to Halloween with candy kisses.

Start with a piece of MDF board (or these Chipboard Sheets* could work great too!) that is cut in a twelve inch square.  My sisters were kind enough to route the edges for me, so that made it extra stylish, but you can just use a regular square piece of leftover board.

Spray paint the board black.

While the board is drying, save and print the kiss labels and Frankenstein monster from the printable at the bottom of the page.

Place the Frankenstein on the board in the position you desire.

Use a pencil and ruler to mark out the spots for the Hershey Kiss candies.  I marked my spots every inch (since the drill bit is 5/8 of an inch it worked perfect.)

Use a 5/8-Inch Spade Drill Bit * (I found mine in the tool department at Walmart) to  drill the holds into your MDF board for your candy countdown.

It was pretty easy to place the tip of the bit on the lines I had created to make even holes.

If you want all 31 days, then make 31 holes in the desired formation. I used 5 holes with a space between 4 and 5 (HAVE A), 5 holes (SWEET), 5 holes (TRICK), 2 holes (OR), 5 holes (TREAT), 5 holes (HALLO), and 4 holes (WEEN).

If you only want 12 days, then you can just use 5 holes (TRICK), 2 holes (OR), and 5 holes (TREAT).

When you are done drilling your holes, use some homemade Modge Podge to paint the back of your Frankenstein graphic to secure him to your countdown board.  You can also paint the front so it will be sealed and safe from "kid elements" and dirty fingers.

While your Modge Podge is drying, use a 0.75 Circle Punch* to cut out the kiss letters.  Then glue the letters onto the bottom of each Hershey kiss. 

I found I needed to put a small glue dot on the inside edge of each hole to keep the kisses stable and not flying out every time the calendar was bumped.

Add your kisses to your countdown calendar.  

Now each day through Halloween, you can enjoy one Hershey kiss as you use the candy to countdown your way to the sweetest holiday of the year!

If you make this, would you mind sharing it with me on our Facebook page? I would love to see how it turns out for you!

Here are the items I used to make the Halloween Candy Countdown Calendar:

       

August Desktop Calendar Background and Dare to Share

I can't believe it's August already.  This summer has just flown by and school will be here three weeks from today.  Yikes!

But in a way, I'm ready.  The kids have reached the point where they are "bored" all the time and have started creating activities to do for themselves that aren't always the smartest.   This week it has rained EVERY day and the kids were going stir crazy.  So they set up a baby pool on the front porch and filled it with warm water from the bathtub and went swimming in the rain.  It was great until the water cooled off and they came in freezing.

It hasn't been warm enough outside to enjoy these, but we certainly have been drooling over the Blackberry Lemonade Popsicles that Melinda from Home.Made.Interest  shared last week.  They were featured on the blog this week an we can't wait for the sun to come back out so we can enjoy them for the last few days of summer.

Since it's been so cold and wet, we've spent a lot of this week inside watching movies and so I shared my Top 10 Favorite Movies of all Time and a Harry Potter candy bar wrapper, as well as one of my favorite Crock pot recipes Slow Cooker Hawaiian Haystacks.  

We also did a little cleaning of the rooms and getting organized for school.  I have always felt that the start of the school year is more the beginning of the year than New Years Day is.  Am I the only one that feels that way?

So I'm trying to get ready for the crazy calendar that comes with the start of school.  One of the ways I'm going to do this is by having a calendar on my desktop to keep me on track.  I thought I would share this with you too.

August Night Sky Calendar

August Sunflower Calendar

August Sunrise Calendar

I created three different themes to choose from.  Simply right click on the one that you want and save it to your computer.  Than right click on the picture and click to "Set As Desktop Background".

Are you ready for school yet?  Are you starting any back to school crafts?  I can't wait to see what you've been up to this week.

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