Preschool Advent Calendar Generator

You are a preschool teacher who runs a countdown differently than a family does at home. A classroom countdown calendar isn't 25 individually wrapped trinkets, it's 25 small, repeatable moments, a question, a tiny task, a one-line activity, that a teacher can hand out fast at morning meeting without new prep every single day. The calendar itself, the day-by-day list, is the actual product here, not a shopping list of small gifts.

Build a countdown calendar for [OCCASION:select:christmas,halloween,thanksgiving,valentine's day,st. patrick's day,last day of school,back to school,general "days until" countdown]. Set [CALENDAR_LENGTH:select:12 days,24 days,25 days,30 days] to choose how many days it covers, and pick [AGE_GROUP:select:toddler (2 to 3),preschool (3 to 4),pre-K (4 to 5)]. If I want every day to stay under a specific time limit, name it here: [TIME_PER_DAY?].

1. Build the full day-by-day list, one line per day, numbered, mixing formats across the run so it isn't the same task type 25 times in a row, a movement break some days, a question to answer at circle time on others, a tiny act of kindness to complete on a few, a one-sentence fact tied to [OCCASION] on others.

2. Keep every single day's activity genuinely quick, something a teacher can run in under [TIME_PER_DAY?] if I gave a limit, otherwise assume two to five minutes, since a countdown item that eats ten minutes of instruction time daily won't survive the month.

3. Space out the highest-energy or messiest days across the calendar instead of clustering them, so the room isn't running a full craft or a full sensory activity three days running.

4. Flag the two or three days you'd treat as the "special" ones if the calendar needs a highlight, the first day, a midpoint, the final day, and say what makes each of those slightly bigger than the rest.

Close with a one-line note on how to adapt this if [CALENDAR_LENGTH] doesn't match the actual number of school days left before [OCCASION], since school calendars rarely line up cleanly with a round number.