Each December, The Lunchbox Season transforms into a Daily Virtual Advent Calendar!
Check out all of our Posts of Christmas Past…
Advent 2016
The Lunchbox Season’s Advent Love-To-Do List 2016
The Lunchbox Season’s Top 10 Gifts for the Kitchen + a Soundtrack
The Lunchbox Season’s Family Advent Calendar Kick-Off: Make Favourite Photo Ornaments
Family Advent Calendar : Visit the One of a Kind Show and Sale + Our Top 10 Gifts From #ooakx16
Family Advent Calendar : Adopt an Animal from WWF Canada #givingtuesday
Family Advent Calendar : Make Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Family Advent Calendar: Lunch, Shopping, and the Ferris Wheel at the Toronto Christmas Market
Family Advent Calendar : Tree Trimming Party with Homemade Eggnog
Family Advent Calendar : Massey Hall Christmas Concert
Family Advent Calendar : Holiday Book Swap
Family Advent Calendar : Support Forests Ontario #givingtuesday
Family Advent Calendar : Design Santa in a Masterpiece Cards
Family Advent Calendar : Skating or a Winter Walk and Roasted Chestnuts
Family Advent Calendar : Make Deep Dish Pizza and Watch a Festive Movie
Family Advent Calendar: Christmas Canning! Lemon Ginger Marmalade and Whiskey Fig Cranberry Sauce
Family Advent Calendar : King Lear Cold Reading
Family Advent Calendar : Give a Bee Hive via Plan Canada Gifts of Hope #givingtuesday
Family Advent Calendar : Write & Illustrate a Beastly Christmas Tale
Family Advent Calendar : Random Act of Christmas Kindness
Family Advent Calendar : Dinner and Rogue One, A Star Wars Story
Family Advent Calendar : Rewrite the Song of the Summer as a Holiday Carol
Family Advent Calendar: Football in the Park After Dark
Family Advent Calendar : Daily Bread Food Bank Donation #givingtuesday
Family Advent Calendar : Double Chocolate Cookies with Andes Mints
Family Advent Calendar : Family Pajama Exchange
Family Advent Calendar : Make Bûche de Noël + 5 Bûche de Noël Recipes
Family Advent Calendar : Christmas Eve Checklist
New Year’s Eve Movie Party : Transformation Movies
Advent 2015
Reinventing a Holiday Classic : Chocolate Hazelnut Bûche de Noël
Our Yule Log Recipe Featured on Huffington Post Canada Living!
Our Top Picks from the One of a Kind Show and Sale, or, The 12 Crushes of #OOAKX15
Family Advent Calendar 2015 : Family Tree Trimming Party
Family Advent Calendar : Make Italian Lemon Knots
Family Advent Calendar : Family Book Exchange
Rewrite the Song of the Summer as a Holiday Carol
Create an Elaborate Christmas Colouring Page
Make Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies
Make Whisky Fig Cranberry Sauce and Carrot Cake Jam
Provide a Newborn Checkup via Plan Canada Gifts of Hope
Make Lichtenstein Inspired Holiday Cards
Picnic Beneath the Christmas Tree
Make Saffron Lussekatter : Santa Lucia Buns
Illustrate or Cartoon “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” “Good King Wenceslas”
Teacher Gifts : Make Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies
Visit the Toronto Christmas Market
Posterize the Twelve Days of Christmas
Red and Green Supper : Make Bowtie Pasta
Give to the Daily Bread Food Bank
Pizza, Popcorn, Pajamas, and an Ernst Lubitsch Triple Feature
Illuminate or Video Shelley’s Ozymandias and Make a Chocolate Hazelnut Bûche de Noël
A New Year’s Thin Man Movie Marathon
Advent 2014
The Lunchbox Season’s Sweet Shop: Our Best Holiday Recipes
Kick-Off Party: Stir-Up Saturday: Make a Twenty-First Century Canadian Christmas Cake
Sketch-It Sunday: Re-Illustrate Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Make-Ahead Monday: DIY Vanilla Extract and Simple Syrup
Tonic Tuesday: Adopt an Animal From the World Wildlife Fund
Write-It Wednesday: Compose and Perform an Original Christmas Carol
Festive Friday: Tree Trimming Party: Roast Chestnuts, Sing Carols, Make Favourite Photo Ornaments…
Stir-Up Saturday: Make Soft Gingerbread Crackle Cookies with Candied Ginger Bits
Sketch-It Sunday: Create Your Own Illustrations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Make-Ahead Monday: DIY Massage Oil Bars, Bath Bombs, and Bath Salts
Tonic Tuesday: Give a Family an Endless Harvest via Plan Canada
Throw-Back Thursday: Make Picasso Santa Holiday Cards and Bake Turkish Pizza Pides
Stir-Up Saturday: Cherry and Pistachio Studded Short Bread Cookies
Sketch-It Sunday: Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts I-III
Make-Ahead Monday: Hot Chocolate Bombs and Microwaveable Mitten Warmers
Tonic Tuesday: Donate to the Daily Bread Food Bank
Write-It Wednesday: Holiday Haiku Challenge
Stir-Up Saturday: Reverse Chip Brookie Cookies
Sketch-It Sunday: Read and Illustrate Much Ado About Nothing, Acts III-V
Last-Minute Monday: Make Holiday Bark for Giving: Host a Bark-Making Party for the Kids
Tonic Tuesday: Give Forests Ontario
Christmas Eve Checklist and a Gingerbread Bûche de Noël
Holiday Brunch : The Lunchbox Season’s Panettone French Toast
The Lunchbox Season’s Family New Year’s Eve : The Hitchcock Edition
Advent 2013
Family Advent Calendar, Day 2: Give a Bear Hug! Contribute to the World Wildlife Fund
Family Advent Calendar, Day 3: Make & Eat Honeycomb and Turkish Delight
Family Advent Calendar, Day 4: Write a Holiday Story Inspired by a Work of Art
Family Advent Calendar, Day 8: Read & Illustrate As You Like It, Act II
Family Advent Calendar, Day 9: Give Fruit Trees! Contribute to Plan Canada!
Family Advent Calendar, Day 12: Make a Shadow Puppet Theatre and Christmas Shadow Puppets
Family Advent Calendar, Day 13: Watch Topper & His Girl Friday and Make Thin Crust Pizzas
Family Advent Calendar, Day 14: Make and Play Holiday Floor Scramble
Family Advent Calendar, Day 15: Read and Illustrate As You Like It, Act III
Family Advent Calendar, Day 16: Fill a Pantry! Donate to the Daily Bread Food Bank
Family Advent Calendar, Day 17: Make and Eat Soft Salted Caramels
Bonus Post: Our Pink Lemonade Jelly & Gochujang Pickles All Dressed Up For Giving
Family Advent Calendar, Day 19: Harry Potter Special! Design Your Own Patronus
Family Advent Calendar, Day 22: Read and Illustrate As You Like it, Acts IV & V
Family Advent Calendar, Day 23: Encourage Deep Breathing, Contribute to Cystic Fibrosis Canada
Family Advent Calendar, Day 24: Christmas Eve Checklikst and a Recipe for Lemon Bûche de Noël
Family Advent Calendar, Merry Christmas!
It’s a Lego Doctor Who Year’s Eve: Multi-Serial Marathon and Lego Building Challenges
Advent 2012
Advent Shadowbox 2012: An Introduction
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 2, Read & Illustrate The Winter’s Tale, Acts I-II
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 3, Support the World Wildlife Fund
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 4, Draw Blue-Prints of the House for Santa
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 6, Create Your Own Christmas-Themed “Clue”-Style Board Game
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 9, Read & Illustrate The Winter’s Tale, Acts II-III
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 10, Give a Beehive
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 12, Improvise a One-Act, Christmas-Themed Hunger Games Play
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 13, Learn “Who” to Knit, Begin a Family/Welcome-Guest Scarf Project
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 15, Gingerbread Party, Design, Build, Decorate
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 16, Read & Illustrate The Winter’s Tale, Act IV
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 17, Fill a Pantry
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 18, Make Silhouette Self-Portrait Cards & Send Them to Family & Friends
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 20, Make a Deck of Constellation Cards
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 21, Order Fish & Chips and Watch The Bishop’s Wife
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 22, P.M. Pajama Party – Make Cookies for Santa
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Day 23: Read & Illustrate The Winter’s Tale, Act V
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Christmas Eve Checklist
Advent Shadowbox 2012: Merry Christmas
Perform & Record The Winter’s Tale (with bears and stuffies)
Lord Peter Wimsey’s Case Crackin’ New Years Eve Party
Advent 2011
Advent Calendar 2011: A Shadowbox Spectacular
Advent Shadowbox: Day 1, Baking Cookies
Advent Shadowbox: Day 2, Daily Bread Food Bank
Advent Shadowbox: Day 3, Letter to a Friend
Advent Shadowbox: Day 4, A Birdseed Wreath
Advent Shadowbox: Day 5, Gratitude Ornaments
Advent Shadowbox: Day 6, Pancakes, Syrup, and a Classic Film
Advent Shadowbox: Day 7, Tree Trimming Party
Handmade Holidays: Favourite Photo Ornaments
Advent Shadowbox: Day 8, Gingerbread House
Advent Shadowbox: Day 9, St. Vincent de Paul Baskets
Advent Shadowbox: Day 10, Kids’ Newspapers
Advent Shadowbox: Day 11, Imagining Santa’s Workshop
Advent Shadowbox: Day 12, Afternoon Sundae Bar
Advent Shadowbox: Day 13, Movie, Lego, Mindfulness
Advent Shadowbox: Day 14, Salt Dough Ornaments
Advent Shadowbox: Day 15, “Christmassify” Your Jars, or Glam Cans Lab 2
Advent Shadowbox: Day 16, Have a Tree Planted
Advent Shadowbox: Day 17, Christmas Crack-ups
Advent Shadowbox: Day 18, Make Clove Oranges
Advent Shadowbox: Day 19, Rudolph Festival (Design Your Own “Misfit Toy“
Advent Shadowbox: Day 20, Festive After-School Spa
Advent Shadowbox: Day 21, Carol Hootenanny
Advent Shadowbox: Day 22, Trim Another Tree
Advent Shadowbox: Day 23, Library-in-a-Box for Haiti via PlanCanada.ca
Advent Shadowbox: Day 24, Carols to and from the Concert
Handmade Holidays: Great Lakes Handkerchiefs
Advent Shadowbox: Day 25, Elvis Dog and Reindeer Cookies
Handmade Holidays: Bookplates for Children
Advent Shadowbox: Day 26, Santa Baby Cookies
Homebaked Holidays: Bûche de Noël
Advent Shadowbox: Day 27, Allons au cinema
Advent Shadowbox: Christmas Eve Checklist
Advent Shadowbox: Merry Christmas
Last Minute New Years Eve: Sherlock Holmes Party and DIY Detective Kits