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The festive season starts with advent calendars for many people. Whilst there are so many delicious versions available to buy, an advent calendar is also a brilliant opportunity to get inventive and create something truly memorable. Not only that, but you can also save homemade advent calendars to reuse in the future.
The beauty of making your own advent calendar is that you can get as creative as you like! You can make it as fancy as you like and even correlate it with your Christmas decorations. From simple Christmas crafts to more ornate and intricate options, here are some advent calendar ideas to help you find some festive inspiration!
When it comes to making your calendar a decorative feature, one of the most effective designs is a garland style creation. If you have space on a wall or between two overhead cupboards to hang some mini goody bags, then you can make an adorable and charming setup incredibly easily.
There are many ways you can fulfil this hanging advent calendar, and you can make it as glitzy or rustic as you like. You’ll need to choose either string, wool or possibly some tinsel and find somewhere to start. Next up you’re going to need something to pop the daily treats into. Little paper or cotton bags are ideal and can be easily attached with miniature clothes pegs. They are easy to decorate and don’t forget to number them! Baubles and classic Christmas decorations are effective additions, whilst sticks of cinnamon or sprigs of Christmas tree will help to make the home smell like Christmas. Mmmm!
For those wanting to get a little more crafty, save up those trusty carboard tubes! With some tubes and crafting card, this hands-on advent calendar is a fun activity that little ones will love to get involved with.
You’ll be pleased to hear that you’ll cut the tubes in half, so you only need 12, not 24! Start by making the outline of your backing. There are several shapes you can choose, from a Christmas tree to a little house, but make sure that there is room for your tubes! Once the backing is sorted, you need to glue the tubes in place and either cover them with coloured tissue paper, held on with rubber bands, or cut out little cardboard lids. Once they’re fixed, you’re ready to number up and add any other festive flourishes you like.
This unique advent calendar idea is really easy to put together and is absolutely adorable, too. With some basic supplies, this fun twist on advent calendars will go down a treat with the little ones. Again, they can easily get involved with making these, too!
Alongside some brown paper envelopes, you’ll need some crafting card to make the antlers and some pom poms and googly eyes to make the adorable reindeer faces. Simply cut out the shapes of your antlers, and then stick all of the features onto the envelopes, number each reindeer and you’re done. To avoid having reindeer envelopes all over the place, using a basket to keep them organised will be a lifesaver!
The ultimate in homemade advent calendars, this is a real investment – whether that’s time or money. Some may see this one as DIY rather than a craft, but you don’t have to make it from scratch! You can also repurpose some drawers, whilst many homeware stores will sell something suitable. Once you’ve sourced your drawers, it’s time to get creative!
As with any of the other homemade advent calendars, you can customise your drawers however you like. Given that this would be something that you’d want to keep for future years, painting it with Christmas motifs would be a lovely touch. If you’re also planning to use the drawers throughout the rest of the year, you may want to consider something less permanent. Christmas figures and ornaments can create a lovely atmosphere, whilst you can easily pack them away once the festive period passes. Spray snow is also a lovely wintry touch that isn’t as permanent as paint, and you can use paper snowflakes as stencils for a beautiful Christmassy effect.
Regardless of the type of advent calendar you decide to make, there is one thing that you will still have to do. You’ll need to choose what you’re going to put in them, of course! The most popular choice here will be a chocolate treat of some sort. Bulk chocolate is the best way to ensure that you have enough to not only fill your homemade advent calendar, but to keep you motivated whilst creating it! To avoid mess, foil-wrapped chocolate is a sensible choice and will still give the classic advent calendar experience. However, just as you can tailor your designs to suit your other decorations, you can tailor the tasty treats inside to get maximum enjoyment. Whether you opt for festive pick n mix, dark chocolate or whatever your or your little on prefers, a personalised advent calendar is a simple way to add a touch more magic to Christmas!
You don’t have to limit the contents to sweets and chocolate, either. You can add in Christmas activity cards, with options such as a winter walk or a snowball fight, and you could even work a few bigger gifts in there too. Whether they’re little toys, pots of nail varnish or anything else that will fit in the calendar, it is entirely up to you!
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