Are you now thinking about Christmas with Halloween over? In our house the first decoration to go up is always the Advent Calendar’s – we tend to have 2. One is the fabric one that was made for us by my Mum, the other is a new version each year that I share here on Rainy Day Mum – watch out later this month for this year’s new Advent Calendar. To help you get ahead of the game I’ve put together some Fantastic DIY Advent Calendar’s for you to make
Ideas for DIY Advent Calendars to Countdown to Christmas
- Snowmen Advent Calendar.
- Advent Calendar Boxes from You Are my Fave
- Cutesy Crafts – Nativity Advent to make a Nativity Picture at the end
- Scrapbook Envelopes which is all over Pinterest and looks gorgeous
- No Time for Flashcards – DIY Advent Calendar from Wipe Lids
- Twenty Five Acts of Random Kindness Advent Calendar from Between You and Me
- J Daniel4’s Mom – Advent Muffin Tin Meal
- Maya Made – Cardboard Tube Countdown
- Narrating Life – DIY Fridge Magnet Advent Calendar
- Kitchen Counter Chronicles – An Advent Calendar from Far Away
- Cardboard Tube Advent Calendar from Doodlecraft
- Christmas Present Advent Calendar from Creation Corner
- Dilly Dali Art – DIY Advent Calendar
- Come Together Kids – Christmas Countdown Tree
- Our Advent Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Nurturestore – Advent Activities
- Book and Film Advent Calendar from Here Come the Girls
- Christmas Advent Jar from Just a Girl
- Storybook advent – Read and Create with our Selection of Classic Christmas Books and Activities, Crafts and Recipes to bring them to life.
- In Lieu of Preschool – 10 Advent Activities
- The Iowa Farmers Wife – Advent Action Cards
- House and Home Canada – Christmas Decoration for 25 days
Out Now! – Countdown to Christmas Ebook
When life gets hectic in the lead up to Christmas wouldn’t it be great to be able to spend a little time with the family creating gifts for others, food to enjoy together and traditions that make magical Christmas Memories?
But what actually happens is you spend hours searching through Pinterest looking for ideas and realise halfway through saying you are going to start that you have only 1 thing on the materials list!
I’ve been there!
So that is why we’ve put together our 24 favourite Christmas Activities, Crafts and Recipes with full materials lists and step-by-step instructions so that you have everything at your fingertips.
Produced as a PDF you can download, print and use these ideas throughout the festive season with your children and families.
Find out more as we share with you our Favourite Ways to Countdown to Christmas.
- The Duty Chronicles – 30 ideas for advent
- Treat Bag Countdown from Fox + Star
- All things simple – Activities for Advent
- Santa Countdown Calendar from Paper Creations by Kristin
Sock Advent Calendar via Shutterstock
- Oopsey Daisy – Books and Crafts Advent Countdown
- The Crafty Crow – Books and Activity Advent
- Christmas Bucket from Workman Family
- Reindeer Cup Advent Calendar from Balancing Home with Megan Bray
- Bon Bon Advent Wreath from Oh Happy Day
- Pottery Barn Knock Off DIY Advent Calendar from Make and Do Crew
More Ways to Countdown to Christmas with Kids
Pin these Ideas to make your Own Advent Calendar Later
Share this Inspiration for DIY Advent Calendars with others on Facebook
Countdown to Christmas Ebook
24 Crafts, Recipes and Activities to share with your family.
Create simple memories and start new traditions
6 delicious recipes to make to share or give as gifts
Simple Activities that need little preparation
Full ingredients and materials listed
Step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow
Mums make lists (@mumsmakelists)
Love this and will be coming back for more – the one thing (I hope)I had forgotten from my Christmas check-list was the blinking advent calendar. No excuse now for not coming up with something fabulous 🙂
The Iowa Farmer's Wife
I LOVE this!!! And THANK you so much for including our Advent Action Cards! Can’t wait to see what others are doing! Loved this list!
Andrea Adams
Thank you so much for all of these great ideas! It will be hard to choose just one 🙂 Looking forward to all of your Christmas Countdown posts.
Erica Brooks
The Peg Advent Calender is a fantastic idea. I can see it being used long after the season is over.
JDaniel4's Mom
These are wonderful! I really love the one with pegs!
pinkoddy
Wow that is a lot of ideas – now which to pick.
ErikaK
These are some great ideas! If anyone is still looking for easy, fun ways to make an advent calendar, there’s some on toucanBox’s website at http://blog.toucanbox.com/
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Faffy Tea
Some really awesome ideas, we love the peg one as it is so easy and simple to make!
We have created an advent calendar that embraces the giving spirit of Christmas – a DIY printable Acts of Kindness calendar – take a look! http://etsy.me/1vxzCN1