"Correct," smiled Lizzie. Then she numbered the circles from 1 to 24 very neatly in order. "So now we have to think of something which we could cover each of those circles with to mark the passing of each day" she continued. "That's what the cotton wool balls are for," she said. "We can glue a ball every day on top of its matching numbered circle, and by the time Christmas arrives, Santa's beard will be completely covered and look like a real fluffy beard!"
"Let's see what Santa would look like as his beard grows," she said as she started gluing cotton wool balls to her outline. "We can draw another Santa to use as the Advent Calendar" she explained, "but I just wanted to show you how it will look after just a few days."
