I don’t know about you, but at our place it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The tree is up, decorations are in place and presents are waiting patiently under the tree. There’s also a cute little DIY Advent Calendar sitting patiently in two tin buckets, waiting for eager little hands to rip into it from December 1 onwards!
Long time readers may remember last year’s Advent Calendar. This year I’ve made something similar but that pesky niche (click on the link to see what I’m talking about) has had a makeover and there’s now a mirror hanging in it, so there wasn’t exactly a lot of room to hang 24 paper bags. I had the tin buckets lying around from a wedding I helped style a few years ago and thought they were the perfect solution to the paper bag problem. It was such an easy Advent Calendar to make and here’s how you go whip one up too!
How To Make Your Own Advent Calendar:
Step One: Choose what you’re going to put in each bag.
I went with a mixture of chocolate Santas (as shown above), chocolate stars & fun size milky bars. Which btw, Bailey saw and said “Seriously? They’re called Fun Size? What exactly is fun about eating a miniature sized piece of chocolate? I would’ve thought it would be far more fun to eat a whole block of chocolate.” Fair point.!
Step Two: Put the chocolates in a paper bag and secure with a numbered sticker.
I made the stickers myself using Keynote on my Mac, which I really should try and figure out how to turn into a printable PDF, so that you can use them too, but until that happens (which should be by around 2023, all things going well) you could use blank stickers and write the numbers on yourself OR you could totally rock it old school and simply fold the bags in half and write the numbers on the bag in felt pen. I know. It’s a bit 1983 but the 80’s were a fun decade and let’s face it, the kids don’t really care what the paper bags and numbers look like. They just want whatever is inside!
Step Three: Arrange your bags in a tin bucket/box/big pile and wait patiently for December 1st.
What do you do at Christmas? Whip up a DIY Advent Calendar or buy one?
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