Spirit of Christmas: Day 3

Candy Advent

This tradition is one that comes from Jon's side of the family. Every year after Thanksgiving Jon's whole family would get together and make a candy countdown to Christmas morning. It's so simple and fun. The things you need are

• about 2 feet of thick Christmas ribbon (for each countdown)
• hot glue gun
• 25 pieces of individually wrapped quarter size candy.
• 4 inch piece of skinny coordinating ribbon

To assemble, glue the candies in a straight row down the thick ribbon, spacing them out a little bit to make it look prettier. Once all of the candies are attached take the skinny ribbon and cross it so it looks like this

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Glue the part where it crosses together and then glue to the middle of the top of the thick ribbon. This is what you will hang it on the wall with. Now, all you have to do is take off one piece of candy for each day in the month of December leading to Christmas.

I'll post pictures after we make ours. They are super fun and easy.

Look forward to the Christmas Morning Train tomorrow.