Inspired by yet another pin on Pinterest, I've created a free printable. This time it's a Santa Beard Advent Countdown. It prints on two sheets of paper (make sure you set your printer to borderless printing) and I recommend printing on heavy cardstock or heavy resume paper (it'll hold up better than your regular printer paper). Link to free download below.
The poem explains it all:
"Santa's beard is very bare. On his chin there is no hair. So each day add one puff so white, and when they're all on, He'll come that night!"
Every day during the month of December, have your little helper glue with tacky glue (or you can use scotch tape balled over) a cotton puff onto the beard area. Once you get to 25 Santa will be on his way! I'm keeping mine on my fridge this year where my little guy can reach it. I'm going to store the cotton balls in a ziplock baggie next to the fridge as well so he knows how far he has to go until Christmas.
Due to convenience's sake, I've created the printable to print on two standard sheets of US paper (8.5 x 11) since I know most people don't have 8.5x22 paper sitting around. You can turn the sheets over and attach them together with a simple band of clear scotch tape along the seam. The file saves as a pdf file, and you can download adobe reader for free from http://www.adobe.com/.
DOWNLOAD SANTA'S BEARD COUNTDOWN HERE
You can see my original inspiration HERE at Oopsey Daisy..
Linking up at: Tatertots and Jello, One Artsy Mama
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on Nov. 14, 2011. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteThis turned out SO cute, Amy! I adore your printable version!
ReplyDeleteJust a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [15 Nov 02:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
ReplyDeleteOOOHHH - it's so cute! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteAw, too cute! My son would love gluing the cotton balls on his beard! Would you share this here, pretty pleeease?
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I love this! And it doesn't take up a ton of storage! Come see what you can do with a dated nutcracker!
ReplyDeleteThis is a fabulous idea. I'm definitely going to do this with my son. Thanks for sharing at Shine on Friday! I hope you'll join us again soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! We aren't going to use it as a countdown but we are going to use it as one of our Christmas crafts!
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