DIY Advent Calendar for kids??

[Mum21boy1girl]

Has anyone ever made their kids Advent calendars?
I think i might make my kids this year as the toy ones are really expensive, i have three kids and most retail around $20-$30 each!
And the chocolate ones we get here have nasty cardboard tasting chocolate in them!

I just wouldn't have a clue on how i want to make it lol

If you have made one can you please share what you did to give me some ideas?? TIA!!

 

[george83]

Not quite the same but my cousin made one last year for my younger autistic cousin, it was a picture of Father Christmas and every day he had to stick a new cotton wool ball on to F.C face to make his beard, it was really cute

 

[shanny]

I did a tree last year with felt xmas hanging bits

Basically it was a branch stuck in a piece of wood to stand up and then I sewed felt decorations ideas from Google Pinterest etc

Each day they'd choose one from a bag and hang on tree

 

[biglebowski]

I bought a kit to make an advent calender. It has felt pockets and we put little things in each pocket: little cars, stamps, little choc coins, transfer tattoos, finger puppets. Lo really like it.

 

[Scout]

I'm making daughter's this year. I had bought her a dolls house with lots of accessories at a second hand shop and I was going to put it out from Santa, but have decided to use that as her advent. She'll get the house first, and then each accessory will be in a Christmas bag ( I got them off Amazon for $2) and then I'm going to put a sticker on each one with the number to count down and hang them by clothes pins to a long piece of twine attached to the wall. Not extremely creative but she's only 2. It'll be kink of like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/442971313320048302/
You can find tons of ideas on Pinterest.

 

[Mum21boy1girl]

Great!! thanks for the ideas

 

[happilyhappy]

we do a book advent so buy lots of cheap christmas/winter themed books and wrap them with a number on the front. Each day he gets a new book. he loves it, we use the books again the next year with a few new ones - we only use them during advent so he forgets about them by next year lol

 

[motherofboys]

We just use them as decoration as we were only given 2 and have 4 boys but we have theses big felt ones that hang on the wall and have little snowmen and santa sacks glued on with numbers and you can fill them up

 

[DCS]

Iv seen some ideas on pintrest. One uses loo roll tubes and is in the shape of a house. Think I'm going to make that one for oh and fill it with reeses.

 

[kellyc1987]

Not quite the same but hobbycraft do some nice wooden ones which you paint yourself and can use year after year