Snowmen Advent Calendar

I don’t know whether I’m excited or about to go insane but it’s getting near Christmas and despite trying my best to be organised I always leave everything to the last minute. If like me you do, but you want to add a little homemade magic to your countdown to Christmas I’ve got the perfect easy to make Advent Calendar that you can make with or without the kids to surprise them and what’s more exciting is that at the end of the post there is many more ideas if our snowmen calendar doesn’t take your fancy so check them out. Here’s how to create this Snowmen Advent Calendar.

Materials Needed

Wooden clothes pegs

White card

Extra tacky double sided sticky tape

Black card

Coloured card

Ribbon that you can hang your pegs onto

Needle to thread your ring through the pegs

Pastry cutters or other circle shapes to draw around

Snowflake Punch (optional)

Mirrored Card (optional)

Foam or cardboard letters (optional)

Optional – envelopes to hold your advent activities -> Watch the video below to discover some of the ideas for Advent Activities you could include.

How to make your snowmen advent calendar

Draw around two different size circles – I used pastry cutters as I have a collection of different sizes – so choose a larger one and one two steps smaller.

Cut these out.

Stick the two pieces of snowmen together to make a head and body.

Cut out a hat shape – top hats for our snowmen.

Using a different coloured card cut out a scarf shape – you could give the snowmen different coloured scarves.

With orange card cut out some small carrot shapes and stick these onto the snowmen.

Place extra tacky double sided sticky tape along your peg.

Attach the wooden peg to the snowman making sure that the parts that you press are facing the top.

Make a set of 24 of these snowmen.

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Thread the ribbon throw the hole in the spring of each snowman. We placed 12 on each ribbon.

Peg your snowmen up and attach the envelope if you wish.

I added a punched snowflake to the envelopes to make it a little more festive which I attached with more double sided sticky tape.

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.

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