Do you only begin to feel the Christmas mood when it comes time to hang the Advent Calendar? For children, the time to find out what is in each box of the Advent Calendar is a real joy. This weekend, instead of buying a new Advent Calendar, you can make your own with DIY and creative recycling. It will be much more original than you would find on sale. Here are many ideas for making your own do-it-yourself Advent Calendar.
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You only begin to feel the atmosphere of Christmas when it comes time to hang the Advent Calendar? For children, the time to find out what is in each box of the Advent Calendar is a real joy.
In the last weekend of November, instead of buying a new Advent Calendar, you can create one with your own hands, thanks to the DIY and the creative recycling. It will be much more original than you would find on sale.
Here are many ideas to make yours DIY Advent Calendar.
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With an old ladder and jars
Any recycled material can be adapted to the creation of an Advent Calendar. This idea proves it, if you have an old wooden ladder, or a branch to hang on the wall and jars to decorate with a Christmas theme, you can create this fantastic advent calendar, or just take a cue from it.
With paper rolls
A calendar made with recycled material, also ideal to do with the help of the little ones of the house, children, to keep them busy with a creative and fun activity. Here are the instructions.
With the pallet
One of the thousand ideas for the creative recycling of pallets is precisely to create a colorful Advent Calendar. Build it from the boards of a pallet and assign a gift doll to every day that separates you from Christmas. THU the tutorial.
With balloons
This original Advent Calendar was made from a base and balloons placed side by side. Here you will find the instructions to make it
With clothespins
With the clothes pegs you can create a truly original advent calendar. Take a base on which to glue the clothespins with hot glue, color everything to your liking, then hang what you prefer on each clothespin: a paper bag, cloth bags, or simple gift packages. In each one there will be a surprise to discover day after day.
With bread bags
You can create a fantastic Advent Calendar by bringing together many bread bags to decorate, as suggested by the Family welcome blog. It is an Advent Calendar to be made with 24 colored bags to hang on a branch. THU instructions and many other ideas.
With yoghurt pots
You can decide to set aside colored yoghurt jars, for example red and green, to create a new Advent Calendar every year, with always different surprises, to put under each jar. THU all instructions.
With newspaper cones
Here is a very nice idea to prepare an Advent Calendar. It is about creating 24 newspaper cones that will have 24 small objects inside, such as candies, thoughts and little surprises. Children can take one cone gift packet per day. You can then choose the base you prefer to hang them, a branch of a tree, spread a thread on a wall of the house, a wooden plank with tacks, clothespins glued to a wooden plank, etc, etc.
With socks
Another example to create a truly original Advent Calendar. It is about using stockings to hang with a thread or a festoon, in which to insert a small surprise to discover day after day. Here all the instructions.
With envelopes
One last idea to create a personalized Advent Calendar in a short time and almost without spending. It involves hanging threads on the wall or on the support you prefer, and hanging 24 envelopes from those threads at your convenience. In each bag just insert a candy, a surprise or if you want an even more original idea, you could also insert tea bags. Here are the instructions.
Marta Albè
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