Today's Advent calendar is a novel concept. It's the My First Advent Calendar from Step2. Designed to look like a snow covered house, this plastic Advent has 25 plastic bins. Fairly large in size, these bins can be filled with surprises teaching children about the progression of time as well as building the anticipation and excitement of the coming of Christmas.
There's an element of magic to this Advent because you don't have to pre-fill all 25 bins. In fact, what you do is fill one bin a day and let the kids play with the house and the prizes from the previous day. Then the next morning, the kids come downstairs and open up the corresponding day's bin to find a new surprise. You could say that Santa or one of his helpers or even the mega popular Elf on a Shelf was behind the filling of the Advent bin.
I know this would have been something my mom would have bought for me or my sister. Instead of having to wrap 25 days worth of presents for us to open each day, all she would have had to do would be to fill the bin. Though I don't think my mom would have had as much fun with this and she would've gone ahead and wrapped everything... with way too much tape!
From the Batman Advent, I received a pair of paper ornaments. Put into a long, narrow paper sleeve that opened on the right side, it was very difficult to access and I ended up tearing the envelope. One depicts Batman and Robin racing in the Batmobile. The other is of the Gotham cityscape with the Bat Signal flashing in the night sky.
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