Let's see some beautiful ideas to make an advent calendar, all with our scrapbooking and craft materials! As Christmas is approaching, it's time to prepare our home with lots of decorations, and even better if we make them with our own hands.
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Which one of these ideas is your favourite? Tell us in the comment if you are going to make an Advent Calendar!
How to make an advent calendar at home
But before preparing the Christmas tree, and the home decorations, there is something that cannot be missing in any house: advent calendars. Advent calendars mark the start of the Christmas period, it is the wonderful countdown to those magical days and, for this reason, it deserves a DIY of its own. We have a few ideas for you to choose the one you like the most. Some require few materials and are very simple; others are more elaborate, and others use recycled materials. Which one do you fancy?● With recycled materials
If you have a few plastic cups from the last birthday party, you can recycle them and turn them into a fun Father Christmas advent calendar. Simply dress them up like those little figures, put their number on them and place some surprises on the inside. Another option is to keep our toilet paper rolls for a few weeks and use them as a base to create a Christmas cracker with gifts on the inside. These can be hung from a surface with the help of ribbons or some string with clips.
● With cardboard and paper
If you are looking for a modern, stylish and simple option, you may love this one. It is as simple as creating a background with the messages (or the text of the gift) for each day and covering it with cardboard or thick paper. Then, with a cutter, cut out windows so that the messages can be read each day. In this case, the gifts are the messages, which can be of different types, for example, a voucher for a dinner invitation, a coupon for a bunch of morning kisses, etc. Something more romantic and more original.● Customized boxes and bags
If you have a Punch Board you have a treasure as you can make boxes or bags with scrap paper and place them in a wicker box, on the fireplace or hang them all numbered on the wall. And if you want to be original, put them in the shape of a Christmas tree! With the Punch Board bases, it won't take you long to prepare the 24 boxes or bags. You can even ask the little ones at home to help you decorate them with ribbons, stickers, washi-tapes, etc.
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● With envelopes or banners
Another option to create our calendar is to use envelopes or banners -which will also look great. And if you also have the Punch Board Envelope for envelopes or banners, it will be much easier to make. You can hang them on the wall or use a corkboard as a base.
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● Using fabric
If you are a fan of textile crafts and have fabric scraps around the house, you can use them to wrap the presents in the form of little bags or sachets, tie them with string and hang them numbered to hide each gift.
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● Little houses
This advent calendar is a very high level, we have to admit it, but it looks so nice that we have to include it here. In this case, it consists of creating a series of little houses forming a small village and each house is a gift day. This calendar is ideal if you have a Cameo, which will help you cut out the silhouettes of the houses. Then all you need is glue and patiently assemble each of the houses, but the result is worth it! And you've already seen that it was only made with kraft cardboard!
Which one of these ideas is your favourite? Tell us in the comment if you are going to make an Advent Calendar!