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shelhop · 11-14-2002, 12:09 PM

I would like to make an Advent Calendar to help my children wait more patiently for Christmas. Has anyone got a good pattern? I've heard of ones that even have little "gift boxes" in them to put a small trinket or piece of candy in. One for the 24 days before Christmas. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

allyoop42 · 11-14-2002, 06:34 PM

Here are a few to try:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/advent.html

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/advent1.html

http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1888.html

http://www.familyfun.go.com/crafts/c...adventcal.html

http://www.readersdigest.ca/christma..._calendar.html

http://www.web-holidays.com/xmas/crafts/calendar.asp

http://www.geocities.com/~saintlukes/adcalendar.htm

Or you can purchase the kit to make a Bucilla Advent Calendar from:

http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=54395

jalex · 11-14-2002, 06:59 PM

Check out these ideas..
Santas beard advents calendar

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/advent.html

Felted Tree advent calendar

http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/advent1.html

Paper Advent calendar
http://www.request.org.uk/main/festi...t/calendar.htm

Christmas Calendar Chain (sorry, no picture available)
http://www.night.net/christmas/f-calendar.html

Another Santa beard

http://familycrafts.about.com/librar...ventsantaf.htm

Advent TP Christmas Tree (no picture available)
http://familycrafts.about.com/librar...venttptree.htm

Rubber Stamped Advent Calendar (again, no picture available)
http://www.stampusa.com/stamptips/advent.htm

Advent Calendar/Christmas Card Holder

http://www.brothersews.com/html/archive/Advent_cal.html

and here are some more links you can check out
http://family.go.com/crafts/season/f...calendars.html
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_occasion...390354,00.html
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_occasion...369641,00.html
http://www.joann.com/content/project...wn_board.jhtml

bettyoboogie · 11-15-2002, 08:14 AM

You can also make a "Jesse Tree". You make ornaments representing various Bible stories. Each day in Decemberr your child can put one of the ornaments on the tree, and you read the relevant passage of the Bible together. You start with Adam and Eve and end with the Christmas story. There's a book on how to do it, although I also used a magazine article I found once for ideas for the ornament symbols. Try:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7202/jesselinks.html

My son loves doing this every year.

jalex · 11-15-2002, 09:30 AM

First I want to say that I am sorry to allyoop42. I was searching for advents calendars while you were posting.....so I did not see that you postet the same links as I did....sorry.

And now....
I made a new post for German advent calendars...(at first I wanted to post it in here...but then I thought the others have the right to see them too..don't you think)So, check out the German Advents Kalender post.....

allyoop42 · 11-15-2002, 06:29 PM

Jalex....no apology needed. Things like this happen. We were looking at the same time and it does take awhile to look them up and put them in a post.

I'm just glad to see that you are still sticking around and posting. You are going to be missed a lot, I always look at your posts because you have very interesting projects. By the way, I really like the German advents you posted. My mom is from Munich and we used to do advent calendars when I was growing up.