Advent tasks for children 8 years old. Simple tasks for your advent calendar for kids every day. We prepare New Year's cards and gifts with the children

Every day the child will receive a letter from the Snow Maiden, it will contain a short story, a task for today, and a souvenir will be attached with it. At the bottom of the Christmas tree there will be a snowdrift (? or a bag), in which the Snow Maiden will leave everything you need for crafts + a souvenir or sweets.

Day 1.
the first letter from the Snow Maiden.
Task: write a letter to Santa Claus.
+ candy and a souvenir

Day 2
Task: make live snowflakes.
These are the templates I have, found on the Internet

here is the result you can get

Day 3
Task: make a postcard. I will prepare several blanks so that he can choose at his discretion - he will have a kind of scrap kit
+ kinder

Day 4
Task: make a garland (this is not the only day with a garland - we will need several of them, so there will be several days)
This day will be done like this

Day 5
Task: make a craft (Christmas tree toy made of felt). There will be patterns for several toys - the child himself chooses which one he will do, and which one - I.
here are the patterns

Day 6
Task: make a card for grandma.
+ sweetie

Day 7
Assignment: we read a book about the New Year, about traditions in different countries. We are discussing.
make a jar of falling snow!!!) together with the letter, instructions on how to do it and all the necessary materials will be attached

here is a description of the process, if anyone needs it (there are a lot of them on the Internet)

What we need:
jar with lid
Figurines, houses, decorations, etc.
Distilled water
Glycerin solution (you can buy it at a pharmacy)
Silver or white glitter or artificial snow
Epoxy or other waterproof adhesive.

What we do:
Glue decorations to the lid.
After the glue on the lid has completely dried, fill the jar itself with distilled or boiled water - not to the brim (glycerin should also fit).
Add glycerin to the water, it is because of it that snow slowly falls.
Add glitter or fake snow.
Close the lid tightly. Turn over the jar.
Ready!

Day 8
Task: we begin to decorate the window (several days will also be devoted to the window, as a result, we will have a whole world on the windowsill - a Christmas tree, heroes, snow and a garland) - using stencils, we apply a picture on the window with toothpaste (spray)

Here are some figurine templates

here's what might happen in the end

The Christmas tree for the window sill will be similar to this one. I will do it myself.

Day 9
Task: making ice toys.
Using sandbox molds, silicone baking molds (if used for a cake, you get a New Year's ice wreath), disposable cups or anything else, freeze water (preferably boiled to remain transparent). Water can be tinted with paint or food coloring, you can freeze some gizmos in molds.
We already have experience with ice figurines, my son will be happy to do such a thing again)))) The only thing I want to believe is that winter will come, otherwise our figurines will have to lie in the freezer waiting for just an hour!

As a result, it may be

Day 10.
Task: Make bird food.
In the letter, the Snow Maiden talks about how important it is to feed city birds in winter, and what kind of food is better to use.
If there is no time, then you can just go and feed the birds, having bought what you need in advance. In one of the days later we will make a bird feeder, and maybe even more than one (usually in winter we make several bird feeders, so I think this year we will not leave our tradition.

Day 11
Task: soap bubbles in the cold.
This is a fascinating spectacle and an interesting and exciting process for both children and adults. Last year, they didn’t think to take a picture, so here is a photo from the Internet (people are more agile than me))))

Do not forget that the process can be made even more interesting if the bubbles are tinted - then we will get colored balls, but I like simple ones more.
+ sweetness

Day 12
Task: make a card for grandma and grandpa. Again, a set of materials will be attached, which I will prepare in advance and the child will be able to choose the elements that he needs.
+ souvenir + sweetness

Day 13
Task: Christmas tree toy made of felt (she can leave with a gift to loved ones or stay on our Christmas tree, this is at the request of the child). Patterns in the first part or in my album

Day 14
Task: we make a snow garland of willows of cotton balls (we make a garland for both the window and the room, since the process is very simple and quite feasible in one day).

Such a garland is made in an elementary way - you can roll balls out of cotton wool or buy ready-made cotton balls and string them on a strong thread. They will look even better mixed with thick snowflakes (we already bought snowflakes in Auchan, they are cheap and very beautiful there)
+ souvenir and candy.

Day 15
Task: make applications to decorate rooms.

Here are the templates (you can increase to the desired size or redraw from the screen)

other templates in the album http://www.stranamam.ru/album/6698894/
+ kinder

Day 16
Task: snow fun on the street (we make angels, study animal tracks, make tractor tracks (I loved it as a child) and footprints of a snowman (we cut out a track from cardboard and fasten it to the legs with a rope and rushed). It is also allowed to draw with sticks in the snow , sledding, looking at snowflakes (for this, take something flat and dark with you (for example, a folder) and a magnifying glass (in stationery, the primitive itself costs about 60 rubles). If the snow is crumbly, you can look at snowflakes - either sketch out on a folder or catch (if the snow falls a little). For this, as you understand, we need a good minus on the street. so this item with snowflakes can be here, or maybe on another day (or there and there). so on the folder they can not only to look through a magnifying glass, but also to take pictures in macro mode.Even a primitive number will allow you to take normal quality photographs that you and your child will then look at at home.naturally, all this will be accompanied by a story about snow and snowflakes. Does your child already know that there are no identical snowflakes and that they are all six-pointed?

On the same day, the child has a task to find cones, sticks, mountain ash and branches of green trees for a garland and a wreath, which he will make a little later.
+ sweetness

Day 17
Task: make a bird feeder. Here I still have time to think of what and what we will have.
+ sweetness

Day 18
Task: make a card for grandma and grandpa
+ souvenir + sweetness

Day 19
Task: make balls of thread.
Everything is elementary, here is one of the many master classes alimero.ru/blog/master-class/shari-iz-nitok.4126.html
here are some examples of what you might get

sweetness

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more job options

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1. A garland of paper strips. Gift - candy
2. Christmas tree toy made of paper. Gift - stickers
3. We make a Christmas tree. The gift is a small toy.
4. Making a postcard. Gift - kinder
5. We color the picture with Santa Claus. Gift - felt-tip pens
6. We watch cartoons about the New Year. Gift - rain
7. Cut out the snowflakes. Gift - a small toy
8. Christmas ball. Gift - sweets.
We will need:
glass jar with a tight lid;
New Year's figurines of small size;
sequins, tinsel, beads;
water;
glycerin (sold in a pharmacy);
plasticine or glue.

We cut the tinsel into small sparkles - you will need quite a bit. We select a figure that is suitable in size or several and fix them on the lid of the jar - you can glue it with plasticine if the lid is with a recess, or you can use glue if it is flat. By the way, please note that the dimensions of the figurine visually increase due to the optical effect of glass. Therefore, you can take smaller characters that will “magically” grow
Pour glitter and beads into a jar. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the main characters will not be visible behind the beauty of the snow.
Pour water and add glycerin - in proportions of 50x50. If there is too much glycerin, the sparkles will almost not fall, but simply hang in the liquid. Close the lid, wipe off excess water from the jar.
And now! Shake it! And we admire the winter miracle under the glass dome!
9. Thread toy. The gift is sweet.
10. Task: make a bird feeder. Here I still have time to think of what and what we will have. Gift - sweetness
11. We study the properties of snow. Gift - sweetness.
12. Coloring pictures and decorating the room. Gift - kinder.
13. We make plastic snowmen. Gift - stickers.
14. We make an application about winter. Gift - pencils.
15. Make a cotton garland. Gift - a book about winter.
16. Felt toy. Gift - sweetness.
17. Soap bubbles in the cold. Gift - chocolate
18. We make food for birds and go to feed them. Gift - stickers
19. We read poems about winter. Gift - candy.
20. Making ice toys. Gift - coloring.
21. Decorate the nursery. The gift is a toy.
22. We decorate the hall. Gift - stickers
23. Decorate the kitchen. Gift - kinder.
24. Make a craft. Gift - sweetness.
25. Making a garland. Gift - sweetness.
26. Decorate the Christmas tree. The gift is a toy.
27. Making a postcard for dad. Gift - kinder.
28. Making snowflakes. Gift - sweetness.
29. We read a winter fairy tale. The gift is sweet.
30. Learn a verse. Gift - stickers.
31. We receive a letter from Santa Claus. We receive a gift under the Christmas tree.

Very soon, the New Year's fuss will begin - garlands on the streets, Christmas trees, decorated houses and shop windows, letters to Santa Claus and a choice of gifts ... I so want to introduce children to this wonderful time, and at the same time get rid of the daily questions “well, when, when?” ...

The New Year's advent calendar of expectations helps us in creating a New Year's mood.

What is an advent calendar?

Advent - (from lat. adventus - arrival) - the time of waiting for Christmas (a special period, four weeks of fasting in the Catholic Church.). Advent was invented in Germany, and among Russian parents, Advent took root in the form of a calendar for waiting for the New Year.

You can start Advent a week, two, three or four weeks before the new year, depending on the wishes and capabilities of the parents.

Some people make beautiful, unusual calendars, but we chose a simple option for ourselves - letters from Santa Claus. It takes 5 to 20 minutes to prepare a letter.

This year, the online bookstore Labyrinth has new versions of Advent calendars for children:

Someone puts small gifts and souvenirs for children in the avdent calendar as a symbol of the expectation of the new year. We, on the other hand, prefer to organize fun, so our Advent is usually full of various tasks to prepare for the new year. The implementation of some, however, is accompanied by gifts and souvenirs.

Thinking up and choosing tasks for the advent calendar, I want the child to have fun, the tasks were simple, interesting and informative.

Tasks for the New Year's Advent calendar for children

If you have time, then materials for most tasks and ideas for creativity can be prepared independently. If there is not a lot of time, then you can use ready-made sets and books.
All pictures in the review are clickable and lead to the Labyrinth online store, where you can buy the appropriate books, sets, coloring books, blanks, New Year's decor.

Create a New Year's mood with the children:

💫, about the new year and about Santa Claus. These may be new books that the baby receives along with the task to prepare for the New Year;

💫 We read poems about the new year and winter, choose one or more and learn them for Santa Claus;
💫 We look at books with various New Year's tasks, we watch how children in books prepare for the New Year;

💫 We listen to New Year's songs and learn to dance;
💫 Watch New Year's cartoons;
💫 Write a letter to Santa Claus. You can send a letter to Santa Claus by mail, you can just throw it in your mailbox or put it in the freezer, explaining that Santa Claus will find out, pick up the letter and be sure to read it. Complete the letter with a small drawing or a postcard that the child will make;

💫 Remember and write down what was good in the past year;
💫 We guess winter and New Year's riddles;

We create a New Year's atmosphere at home with the children:

💫 We make a small Christmas tree together and decorate it. The Christmas tree can be voluminous from sisal, tinsel, from the designer, and maybe flat in the form of a pattern or appliqué;
💫 We make decorations for windows: decorative New Year stickers or snowflakes and figures cut out of paper with a child;

💫 We make decoration on the windowsill. You can cut out a whole city from paper and place it on the window, and highlight it with a garland;

💫 We decorate the apartment with homemade garlands from rings, carved snowflakes or Christmas trees. And you can add tinsel, rain, New Year's toys and again decorative stickers;
💫 One more touch in decorating the apartment - cut out a lot of snowflakes from paper and hang them around the apartment. On doors, chandeliers, ceiling;

💫 We continue New Year's creativity with winter crafts. Candlesticks, wreaths, snowmen, a symbol of the coming new year - all these cute toys can decorate your rooms;

💫 We make toys for the Christmas tree. This task can be divided into several days, because you need a lot of toys, and children have little patience. Toys can be made independently, or you can use special kits for creativity. This year, in addition to home-made ones, we will have such Ball-Papier sets or other New Year's crafts:

💫 We put the Christmas tree and decorate it with toys;
💫 Make Christmas cookies or gingerbread together. Some of the cookies can be eaten, and some can be hung on the Christmas tree;

New Year's creativity with children:

💫 We make applications on the New Year theme;
💫 We sculpt from plasticine;
💫 Coloring Christmas coloring pages;

💫 We draw New Year's masterpieces;

We prepare New Year's cards and gifts together with the children:

💫 We make New Year cards and greetings together for friends and relatives;

💫 Packing Christmas gifts. Tell your child that gifts in the New Year are given not only by Santa Claus, but also by relatives and friends to each other;

Other New Year's Eve activities with children:

💫 Go outside and make a snowman;
💫 For one or more New Year's Eve days, you can plan a visit to the New Year tree by presenting tickets for it in the form of invitations from Santa Claus to visit his holiday;
💫 Freeze flowers, leaves, twigs in ice molds and decorate trees on the street with them;
💫 Make bird feeders and hang them on trees;
💫 Offer your child the game "Finding" on the street. The task is to find and photograph as many elements of the New Year's decoration of the area as possible along the routes of your walk;
💫 Blow soap bubbles in the cold;
💫 Sledding, sledding, skiing or ice skating:
💫 Making ice cream out of snow. The delight of the child is guaranteed. We go outside with the child, make snowballs, bring them home and put them in the refrigerator. The next morning, the child finds real ice cream in the form of snowballs in the refrigerator. Who, if not us, can create magic for our children?

What to put in your kids advent calendar

🎁 In the process of waiting and preparing for the new year, you can limit yourself to just the pleasure of completing tasks, or you can give your child small gifts for completing tasks.

As gifts in the advent calendar can be:

chocolates, chocolate medals, chocolate toys for the Christmas tree or marmalade;

The advent calendar is often made with tasks for children. Children are very interested in opening a new calendar window every day, getting a surprise and doing interesting tasks. It remains to find 31 suitable tasks for the new year's meeting calendar. Here are examples of how you can develop children, what tasks to give them, how to turn the expectation of the new year into a daily fairy tale.
Or you can make an Advent calendar for adults, for example, for a husband ..

Tasks for the children's advent calendar

We glue New Year's stickers on glass and mirrors. It would be nice if these stickers were in the windows of the advent calendar. If they do not fit in the window, then you can put a note instead of them - where to look for them.
Make a bird feeder, hang it in the yard or near the window and watch the birds fly in for breakfast. The feeder can be made from tetrapacks or from a plank. You can decorate the feeder with snowflakes cut out of paper or decorate with paints and felt-tip pens.
Learn a New Year's song.
Make a New Year's wall newspaper. On it you can draw a symbol of the new year, write congratulatory poems, place photos of the brightest moments of the outgoing year.
Make snow-covered twigs with saline solution or styrofoam peas
Paint a couple of cones with white or gold paint, attach strings to them and hang them on the Christmas tree. Or .
Paint windows with gouache
Go outside and build a snowman if the weather permits. And if it doesn’t allow, then make it out of cotton wool, papier-mâché, plasticine - in any way.
Learn how Santa Claus is called in different countries and how they differ.
Cut paper snowflakes.
Write a list of the most important, most memorable events of the year, remember everything for which you need to thank the outgoing year. Let you have.
Make paper garlands
Solve riddles about winter and the new year
Make your own wrapping paper. Give the child paints and pencils and ask them to decorate sheets of white paper with New Year's patterns. Gifts wrapped in such paper will definitely be appreciated by relatives.
Make your own Christmas wreath for your door. Here is an example.
Learn a poem about the new year
Bake Christmas cookies with Mom
Make an ice ball candlestick. Water is poured into a small balloon. The ball is placed in the freezer. The water in the balloon freezes unevenly. As soon as it froze along the walls, you need to remove the ball, cut it and remove it. You get a ball that is hollow inside. If necessary, make a hole for the candle. Place a candle in the bowl and light it.
Go skiing or sledding if the weather permits. And if not, then go to the rink.
Sort through toys and books and choose those that parents will give to the children in the orphanage. Such a task will develop empathy in the child and make him think about other people.
An interesting task for the advent calendar is to blow soap bubbles in the cold. They seem to freeze really well. You will get beautiful photos and the child will be delighted with the new experience.
Draw winter. This picture, placed in a frame, can be a great New Year's gift to relatives.
Draw in the snow with paints or trample shapes in the snow.
Prepare a holiday concert for grandparents. Children enjoy doing this task. Help them with music, costumes and numbers.
Write a letter to Santa Claus and send it through the freezer.
Buy millet and feed the birds in the park near the house.

As soon as I learned about such an interesting tradition as the advent calendar, I immediately wanted to try to introduce this custom in our family. True, last year I was a little worried that my daughter, at the age of 2, might not understand the whole essence of the tradition or would be too “tired of waiting” for the holiday with such advance preparation. But, as it turned out, all the experiences were in vain, the daughter was delighted with such an interesting preparation for the holiday and the surprises that awaited her every day in the advent calendar. Therefore, this year the miracle calendar will again decorate our pre-holiday days.

After all, the sweetest thing about any holiday is the anticipation of the holiday. And together with the New Year's Advent calendar, waiting is much more fun. Thanks to him, a festive atmosphere in the house will reign long before the New Year. In addition, it will help to better acquaint the child with the holiday, to involve in an interesting creative process. The advent calendar tells the child every day what interesting events await him today, what surprises and tasks Santa Claus has prepared for him on this day.

In this article, I want to talk about how you can design a New Year's Advent calendar, what tasks and gifts you can include in it. When my daughter was 2 years old, our advent calendar was calculated only for the last 10 days of the outgoing year. It seems to me that for this age this is the most optimal duration. This year, I plan to start early and stretch the pleasure for 20 days already.

Making an advent calendar

On the Internet, you can find a huge number of different ideas for decorating a calendar with your own hands. Basically, advent calendars make sure that for each day of waiting there is a small container in which you can put a small surprise for the child. The container can be pockets, and drawers, and socks, and jars, and cardboard houses, etc. If the gift does not fit in the box, you can put a note "Look for a gift under the pillow" or attach a photo of the place where the gift is hiding. All containers are affixed with numbers that correspond to the number of days left until the holiday.

Option 1

This year our advent calendar is a small town of cardboard houses. Basically, these are small one-story houses, but there are also two-story and even three-story buildings. To make small houses, I used the templates found on the Internet, I used different ones for a change, here are the ones that I liked the most: template 1, template 2, pattern 3. I deliberately cut the bottoms on all the templates, otherwise how can I get gifts from the houses if they are airtight? (Just in case, here the same patterns with bottoms). Layouts are printed on A3 or A4 color cardboard, cut out, glued with PVA glue and you're done!

I made two- and three-story buildings according to the logic of template 2, only changed the size of the roof and walls. Also inside the two-story houses there are transverse cardboard partitions so that a gift from the 1st floor does not interfere with a gift from the 2nd floor

Option 2

Last year our advent calendar consisted of 10 cylinder gnomes. Generally speaking, Santa Clauses were originally conceived, but the daughter found them more like gnomes, and I agree with her.

I will briefly talk about the process of making such gnomes (Santa Claus). The cylinder is made of A4 color cardboard, it is fixed at the back with adhesive tape and a stapler. At the bottom, the bottom is also made of cardboard and fixed with a stapler. It is not difficult to make a gnome's face - for this you need only colored paper, cotton wool and PVA glue. Well, on top, instead of a hat - the usual sock of an adult. Preferably bright, multi-colored and not too narrow, because. from sheet A4, cylinders are obtained with a rather large diameter. On the side we sign a number indicating the number of days left until the New Year.

Option 3

Here is our 2017 calendar. This is again a town but with significant changes. You can read more about it.

Tasks for the New Year's advent calendar

I put all the tasks in the advent calendar in the form of short notes. While my daughter couldn’t read and we only made laconic notes with large block letters, we read the assignments together. Now that he is already reading well, the size of the note can not be limited to 2-3 words. In general, you can still try to designate tasks in the form of pictures.

Also, every day, all the necessary props are put into the advent calendar or next to them to complete the task.

So the job options are:

Decorate a Christmas tree

Decorate your home for the holidays , for example: and other decorations, hang tinsel, decorate windows and mirrors with snowflakes, etc. We love decorating mirrors with these ready-made glass sticker sets.

cook together or .

Write a letter to Santa Claus. Just because your little one can't write yet doesn't mean you can't do without this fun activity. First, if the baby already knows the letters, you can try to make words together from the letters or syllables you have prepared in advance. If the letters have not yet been met, or there is no desire to play with them, you can compose a letter from pictures.

Be sure to check it out and see how the advent calendar helps us prepare for the new year.

We had a lot of fun, and my daughter ran impatiently every morning for a new task.

Compiling tasks for the advent calendar for 31 days, you have to pretty rack your brains. I want the child to have fun, and the tasks were not difficult, and appropriate. And in general, coming up with 31 tasks is not so simple.

Therefore, especially for my readers, I compiled 31 day advent calendar task list.

At the end of the list you will find the file. You will need to download it, print it on thick paper (you can also use plain paper) and cut it into pieces. And that's it - you will have ready-made tasks. Just put them in daily and don't forget to prepare the props.

So let's go.

Tasks for the advent calendar. List

Read poems about winter with mom
Learn a poem about Santa Claus
Make a bird feeder
Time to cut out the snowflakes
Do for ... (grandparents)
Try to inflate
do it with mom
Learn a New Year Poem
Do for ... (friend)
Draw winter
make a garland
go
Make craft "Horse" (Year of the Horse)
dress up the Christmas tree
Decorate the apartment
Learn a poem about a Christmas tree
Do It
Decorate a Christmas tree in your yard
Do for ... (dad)
Read a Christmas story with your mom
Make a snowman (you can make a snowman, or make a craft, applique)
Guess the riddles
Make a Christmas tree with mom
Draw a Christmas picture
Help wrapping Christmas gifts
Read a Christmas story with your mom
We welcome the New Year!

Explanations to the list of tasks for the advent calendar

The links inside the list will provide you with interesting ideas to help you prepare materials for assignments. As well as a description of the processes (for example, how to blow soap bubbles in the cold or paint on the snow with paints).

You can make a snowman outside if the weather permits, and paint it with paints (just like you would paint in the snow). And you can make, or mold a snowman from plasticine, from salt dough (and you get a Christmas tree toy if you attach a rope in advance).

The same with a horse - download any horse coloring page and work with it: fill it up, make it, or just paint it with paints. In general, fantasize with the children!

The task “Read the New Year's story with mom” we drop out along with a small gift -. My daughter reads the assignment, and then we read a new book together with her.

And riddles are also better to print in advance and put in tasks.

And to help you I give a link to everything. There are a lot of interesting things, be sure to take a look.