Making an Advent Calendar

When I was newly married my cousin, Cyndi, made me an advent calendar.  It has been such an important part of our family's Christmas celebrations.  Now that my girls are beginning to establish homes of their own, I need to make advent calendars for them.  I am following the basic idea that Cyndi used but I wanted to update it a little and use some of my own ideas.

four ornaments I have already made

I started by making a list of ornaments.  My list has way more than 24 ideas.  I will probably not use all of them but I also think it is ok to have more than one ornament per pocket, per day.  I may make two ornaments per pocket.  Since there are not 48 ideas, I could make multiple gift ornaments to go under the tree.  Also, I may make multiple "ornament" ornaments and christmas light ornaments.

Here is my list of ideas:

Star (goes in first pocket)

Baby Jesus (goes in 24th pocket)
angel

lamb

camel

donkey

dove

bell 

gingerbread house

gingerbread man

gift

snowman

Santa
Santa hat

mitten

Christmas stocking

candle

candy cane

poinsettia

wreath
holly

snowflake

drum tree ornament

heart

train

ice skate

doll 

tree

penguin

polar bear

reindeer 

starlight mint candy

church

tree light

Santa sleigh

toy soldier or nutcracker
drum
christmas cardinal
trumpet

If you have any more ideas, please let me know.
I will continue to blog about my progress.