What did I prepare for advent calendar fillers 2022 – to be continued

๐ŸŽ„ Day 1

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Letters wrap up

๐ŸŽPresent: Precision Fusion Football (Size 2)

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • Clean food packaging card without any writing on
  • Parcel wrapping paper
  • Scissors
  • Pen
  • Masking tape

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. I cut up small pieces of cards (from the food packaging) and wrote each letter of the present on the card. So I wrote “football” on 8 pieces of cards.
  2. I shuffled the letters so they were not in order.
  3. Wrapped up each letter with a piece of wrapping paper. Remember don’t wrap them in order so your little one cannot easily guess the present when they were unwrapping.

I stopped J when he was unwrapping the 4th one and asked him can he guess what the present was with the letters he had so far. He had so much fun putting around the letters and using his phonic skills to try to guess.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 2

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Moji Maths Challenge

๐ŸŽPresent: Pick Your Own Quest: Escape from Minecraft

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. I simply folded the paper up into a small parcel and taped with a small piece of masking tape so it holds its shape. Attach a string to it and glue the other end of the string inside of my 3D advent calendar.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 3

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: English crossword

๐ŸŽPresent: Labyrinth board game

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • Rough paper
  • Pen

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. I thought about the letters in the present and see if any clues can fit in.
  2. Drafted my crossword layout with pencil and then finalised with pen.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 4

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: DIY scratch card to learn Christmas vocabulary in Chinese

๐ŸŽPresent: Unicorn top cards game from Twinkl

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • Clean food packaging card without any writing on
  • Acrylic paint
  • Paint brush
  • Washing up liquid
  • Bottle lid (to hold the paint) (You can use anything for the same purpose)
  • Clear cellotape / sticky tape
  • Pen

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. Wrote out instructions and grid.
  2. Filled in the grid with the Chinese words. I’ve chosen the theme “festival”. I intended to let my son to win the prize so I specifically wrote more of the word “Christmas” than other festivals.
  3. Mixed a drop of washing up liquid with some paint.
  4. Applied the paint over the words with a paint brush.
  5. Once dried I did a few more layers of paint until I could not see the writing anymore.

Note: Depending on the type of paint you have, this activity needs more time to prepare than the others mentioned above (Day 1 to 3). You might need at least two layers of paint in order to cover the writing.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 5

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: DIY decoder

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • Plain paper
  • Sharp cutter
  • Pen

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. My present was a book, so I looked for a page with all the letters on it.
  2. Placed a piece of paper on the page. Traced small rectangles over the letters of choice.
  3. I then cut them out using a sharp cutter.

Note:

  • Don’t use cards as they are too thick you cannot see the position of the letters.
  • Sharp cutter helps to cut small rectangles.
  • I did not tell J the orientation of the decoder, I let him to figure it out himself.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 6

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Treasure Hunt – Rooms in the house in Chinese

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • Plain card
  • Pen

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. Cut out enough number of cards to write my sentence. I had 8 characters in my sentence (ไฝ ็š„็ฆฎ็‰ฉๆ˜ฏไธ€ๆœฌๆ›ธ) so I cut out 8 cards
  2. On the back of each card I wrote down the name of the rooms in the house, and placed the card to its corresponding room.
  3. I then hid the present on the very last room for J to find it.

Note:

  • I used “rooms in the house” as my theme simply because we were learning them in my Chinese homeschooling. You can use other theme that suits you the best.
  • I mixed up the order of the sentence and put the word “ๆ›ธ”, which is the present, on the last card so J cannot immediately guess the answer.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 7

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Fishing maze

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • The back of an old, large envelope without any writing on
  • Pen

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

This one was super simple. J was fishing, and only 1 lead to his present, and he needed to find out which fishing string leads to his present by following the lines. What I did was just drew the lines and pictures as shown.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 8

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Maths questions on a plus sign

๐ŸŽPresent: Festive Wreath DIY Craft Kit from The Make Arcade

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • A piece of used parcel wrapping paper without any writing on
  • Scissors
  • Pen

Aim: Solve the Maths question on each square to reveal a letter. When all Maths questions are solved and all letters are revealed, it should spell out the present.

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

  1. I cut the wrapping paper into a “+” sign, making sure I had enough space to write my Maths question.
  2. I then folded each square inwards as shown in picture.
  3. Wrote the Maths questions on the “outside” of the square.
  4. I then wrote a letter of the present on the “inside” of the square.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 9

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Number / alphabet code

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • A small piece of rough paper without any writing on
  • Pen

Aim: Try to figure out the numbers are actually representing the alphabets, and then spell out the present.

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

Super simple! A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on, and my present was a book, so I just simply worked out the numbers and wrote them on the paper.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 10

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Maze in a foil box!

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • An empty foil box
  • Pen

Aim: Follow the lines to find the present.

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

Another super simple one! I drew the maze in the empty foil box! That was it!

Note: Practice with a pencil first because drawing in a box with limited space is a wee tricky.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 11

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: Number / alphabet code

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • A small piece of rough paper without any writing on
  • Pen

Aim: Try to figure out the numbers are actually representing the alphabets, and then spell out the present.

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

Super simple! A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on, and my present was a book, so I just simply worked out the numbers and wrote them on the paper.

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๐ŸŽ„ Day 12

๐Ÿ“ŒHow: English word search

๐ŸŽPresent:

โœ‚๏ธWhat I used:

  • A piece of used parcel wrapping paper without any writing on
  • Pen

Aim: Answer the questions and cross out the answers on the word search table, which would leave 10 letters. Then to reveal the present, J has to cross out the name of a person in our house.

๐Ÿ“ŒWhat I did:

Set up was simple. Just a normal word search in Xmas theme. I got some ideas of the questions from Twinkl. Then I added a twist at the end before revealing the present by asking J to cross out the name of a family member.

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