I think these are great ideas! We have an Advent calendar that has drawers I fill with an activity a day, like quiet time under the Christmas tree, going to see the puppet show Rudolph (which I guess has to do with Santa), looking at Christmas lights, gingerbread decorating with our homeschool group, ice skating, all the fun Christmas things we get to do as a family. And every year I keep trying to incorporate Ann Voskamp’s Jesse Tree, but I think we’ll get closer this year lol! We also love The Star and use that movie as one of our movie nights :-D