An Advent calendar in the run-up to Christmas not only delights children, but also makes adults impatient for the popular festival. Despite the name, it's not actually a calendar in the classic sense, but rather an old tradition in which you count down the remaining days until Christmas. The Advent calendar can be found in many different sizes and shapes and with various surprises inside. The 24 days before Christmas are written down on the doors and there is a surprise behind each one. In this way, time passes faster and you get even more excited about the wonderful Christmas season. If you are looking for great craft projects for the winter, then you can make an Advent calendar together with the children. You can find wonderful craft ideas with instructions in the article.
Make Advent calendars with children out of toilet rolls
You can have an Advent calendarmade from a variety of materialsmake. You can even use everyday objects to make really original calendars that children particularly like. For example, you can make a cheap but beautiful calendar out of toilet rolls. To do this, you will need a total of 24 (possibly 25) empty toilet paper rolls, flatten them a little and then staple one end with the stapler. Now fill the toilet roll with sweets or small gifts for each of the 24 days and staple the other end.
Now it's time to decorate and the children can join in. The unsightly toilet rolls can be spiced up nicely with a ribbon with Christmas motifs, small bells, pompoms, paper snowflakes and other decorations of your choice. Small labels are perfect for writing down the days. Finally, you need a board or plate where you can attach the alternative doors and thus theComplete the Advent calendar.
If you have the idea for oneAdvent calendar made from toilet paper rollsIf you like it, we have another suggestion for you. In this craft project, the unsightly toilet rolls are covered with colorful craft paper and designed as pillow boxes.
You can use colorful paper with any patterns and decorate the toilet paper rolls creatively. You can of course make the Advent calendar with the children, but we recommend that you add the surprises later. This way, curiosity is maintained when opening the individual days.
DIY ideas from cups
Paper cups are another inexpensive material. For this you need 24/25 paper cups, which can be found in every larger supermarket. You can either get colorful cups or cover simple white cups with patterned paper. Classic Christmas colors such as red, green, silver and white are best. To number the cups, you can either cut the numbers out of contrasting paper or simply write them on them.
To hide the surprise in the cup, you can wrap it in crepe or tissue paper. You can still make small handles with a little wire and attach them to the cups so that you can hang them on a line. Instead of a leash, you can use a simple cord or a fabric ribbon. Simply attach the cups to the line with mini clothespins and you're done.
You can make cute ones with the kids using plastic or paper cupsMake animals and figures for Christmas. These are perfect for designing the individual days in the Advent calendar and look really cute. The little ones can easily make snowmen and reindeer out of cups. All you need is some colored paper, some craft beads and googly eyes.
Reindeer, for example, can be made very quickly and easily from brown paper cups because they don't need painting or sticking. Simply the antlers made of brown paper orMake foam rubber, glue googly eyes and make a red nose out of felt or paper. A great winter craft project for kids!
Muffin form Calendar
A 24 muffin tin is also ideal for making Advent calendars with children. Small sweets and gifts fit perfectly in the small cups of the mold and you can easily make doors for them out of some paper. You should first measure the diameter of the molds and cut out 24 matching circles from patterned paper.
Now put the little surprises and sweets into the cups and put the lids you made on top. You or your children can cut out the numbers for the individual days from foam rubber or simply buy ready-made numbers made from foam. When Christmas finally comes and all the cups are already empty, you can bake delicious muffins or cupcakes in the muffin tin.
Idea in egg cardboard
If your children enjoy crafting with old household items, then the following ideas are wonderful for this year's Advent calendar. The first project uses a large egg cardboard box that holds 30 eggs. Various sweets fit into the small boxes and doors like those for the muffin tin calendar can be made out of paper.
Perfect circles can be easily punched out with a motif punch and so they are always the same size. With various stickers with Christmas motifs, the doors of the Advent calendar can be decorated and made colorful especially for Christmas. You can paint the egg cardboard in any color and create a particularly beautiful Advent calendar with children.
Advent calendar for children made from recycled material
The upcycling trend continues and can be transferred to Christmas crafts. For example, you can make this Christmas tree-shaped Advent calendar out of empty rolls of adhesive tape or shipping tubes. You will need a total of 24 rolls of the same size, as well as acrylic paints, colored paper and a hot glue gun. Of course, young and old children can also take part in the crafting.
First, paint the rolls inside and out as desired. Red and green are recommended for the inner part of the tree (21 rolls), brown for the tree trunk (2 rolls) and yellow for the top (1 roll). Then arrange the rolls so that the Christmas tree shape is created from the picture and glue them together using hot glue.
Now all that remains is to wrap the sweet surprises and put them inside. To do this, simply wrap each gift in craft paper in a matching color and number them accordingly. You shouldn't forget the star for the top of the Christmas tree either. The last gift fits there quite well. You can attach the finished Advent calendar to the door in the child's room so that the child opens a little surprise every day.
