This is an annual, fun project for our family. My parents are celebrating their 90th birthdays soon but they are very active and enjoy celebrating the holidays. My father golfs once a week and they do everything they did when they were in their 60's, just a lot slower.
..... and they don't need a thing as far as gifts go.
For the past few years, we have filled a wooden Advent box with photo prints of the grandkids and great-grandkids from social media pics through the past year. They love it! The younger generations are used to digital images but my parents love real, printed photos. (They are on Facebook all the time but never print out the photos.) So we all submit multiple cute and funny pics then give them a mini-photo album to fill during Advent. We also add a Scripture or short devotion and candy treats but the photos are the real hit.
So, if you have no idea what to give an older person on your Christmas list, there is still time to print pics that they might not have. If you don't have a large, wooden Advent box, put the photos in sealed envelopes and number them. Decorate a box to put them in. There are lots of creative ways to do it that are inexpensive. One year, we had the youngest grandkids decorate envelopes and that was a hit, too.
It's really as much fun to do it and see the collection of photos as it is for them to open them each day.
..... and they don't need a thing as far as gifts go.
For the past few years, we have filled a wooden Advent box with photo prints of the grandkids and great-grandkids from social media pics through the past year. They love it! The younger generations are used to digital images but my parents love real, printed photos. (They are on Facebook all the time but never print out the photos.) So we all submit multiple cute and funny pics then give them a mini-photo album to fill during Advent. We also add a Scripture or short devotion and candy treats but the photos are the real hit.
So, if you have no idea what to give an older person on your Christmas list, there is still time to print pics that they might not have. If you don't have a large, wooden Advent box, put the photos in sealed envelopes and number them. Decorate a box to put them in. There are lots of creative ways to do it that are inexpensive. One year, we had the youngest grandkids decorate envelopes and that was a hit, too.
It's really as much fun to do it and see the collection of photos as it is for them to open them each day.
