Already have your advent calendar and are wondering what presents to put in it? Then we have something for you. Our list of inspirations will certainly make this task easier for you!
In addition to numerous ideas for original advent calendar gifts for children, young people and adults, we have something else for you. Be sure to read this article to the end! Pssst: we’ll just let you in on the fact that we’ve just launched a Christmas competition with a prize that Ho! Ho! Ho! Details can be found at the end of the article
Advent calendar in the form of a garland made from jute bags
What is the advent calendar used for?
Some people believe that advent calendars are a driven invention of our time by the ubiquitous consumerism. They accuse their purchase of cheapening the true idea of Advent, as it reduces this time to merely waiting for more sweets and toys. Nothing could be further from the truth! This is no modern fad, but a tradition that is more than a century old. It is also worth emphasising that the content of the gift bags is entirely up to us
Properly prepared calendars won’t get in the way, but will actually help you celebrate Advent to the full – and from its very first day right through to Christmas Eve! They are a great way to pass the time and help parents answer the question their children ask (almost every day): Mum, Dad, when will it be Christmas?
Original advent calendars made of pouches
Are you already familiar with advent calendars made of fabric pouches from Saketos? This unique product allows you to make your own unique and original advent calendar – you decide the contents! Do away with ready-made, store-bought gift sets once and for all. You can put together your own gifts to better suit the tastes and preferences of the recipient
Advent calendar made from fabric bags
Think you’re limited by the size of your stash when choosing gifts for your calendar? You are wrong! When your chosen gift is too big, you have three choices
- Firstly, choose something for yourself from the pouch calendars in different sizes.
- Secondly, you can buy one or more larger pouches and hang them in place of the pouch included as standard,
- Of course, there is another, non-standard solution. You can get creative! Insert into the pouch a pre-prepared map leading “to the treasure” hidden in the location marked on it.
Find out even more about pouch calendars, then explore the various gift suggestions you can put in them!
We’ve got lots of out-of-the-box ideas for you. Of course, we have also done a review of the most popular suggestions!
Advent calendar with sweets
Sweets are the most popular and easiest way to fill the caches of a calendar. Just which ones to choose? If you don’t know what sweets the person you want to give most likes, you can go for a mix of typically festive treats – candy canes, gingerbread, marzipan. Alternatively, you can take a shortcut and get the chocolates out of the popular calendar-bomb box with windows
Sweets in jute bags make the Advent season more pleasant
The most popular toys and gadgets for children’s advent calendars
Your child is sure to love their advent calendar in jute pouches!
- Let’s start with a book! If you want to gift a book, consider giving a collection of stories with a short story for each day of advent on the first day.
- Figurines, e.g. animals, characters from your favourite fairy tales, small cars – gifts placed in an advent calendar do not require additional packaging. Consider buying second-hand toys – an ecological and at the same time economical solution!
Animal figurines – this is one idea for toys that can be put in the Advent calendar boxes
3. Christmas tree ornaments (a great choice would be ones that require you to decorate yourself, such as cold china baubles to paint)
Advent calendar with Christmas ornaments
4. Gingerbread baking accessories – child-sized rolling pin, moulds in interesting shapes, stamps
You can put, for example, gingerbread cookies or moulds in the boxes of the advent calendar to cut them out
5. Icing and goodies for decorating gingerbread and shortbread cookies – food colouring, coloured food markers, nuts, edible pearls
Advent Calendar – joy for children for every day of Advent!
6. Soap bubbles – an inexpensive gift loved by almost all little ones!
Small gifts for children such as sweets and small toys such as soap bubbles can be placed in cloth bags
7. Bath toys and toiletries – crayons, paints, sparkling balls, scented gels, ships, duckies – there is definitely plenty to choose from!
8. Art accessories: plasticine, pastry, crayons, markers, erasers in original shapes, glue with glitter, creative wires, pompoms, confetti, stamps and stamps
Christmas gift packaging for children
9. Cufflinks and rubber bands and jewellery for girls – choose those with winter and Christmas themes
10. A colouring book for each day – a picture roll for each day is a really great compromise – an object gift and an activity task in one!
11. Stickers – traditional or gel stickers to create colourful stained glass on the window
12. Water tattoos – we honestly don’t know a child who doesn’t love them! It’s worth looking for designs with a Christmas theme
Original advent calendars – creative gifts
Don’t like advent calendars with sweets or toys and are looking for other solutions? Be sure to see the list below full of non-material gifts you can put in the pouches of your advent calendar
What to give to your advent calendar instead of sweets and goodies? We suggest
- Printed Gospel passages or pictures with biblical motifs – a kind of return to the roots. After all, this is what the first Advent calendars looked like! An excellent option for those wishing to bring their children up in the faith. Reading biblical verses together is also a great starting point for a conversation about what Christmas is all about. If you choose the colouring book option, it is a good idea to include a colouring book to further increase your child’s interest and involvement,
- Activity cards. Each day, the child draws a new task to perform. These can include spiritual tasks, e.g. helping the needy or taking part in the Christmas market. As well as a variety of ideas for spending time together: learning a hitherto unknown carol, baking and decorating gingerbread cakes, putting up Christmas decorations in the house, sending postcards with Christmas wishes or writing a letter to Father Christmas, feeding wild birds together, making a snowman,
Creative eco games for children – decorating bags
3. As a gift, you can invite your child somewhere attractive – skiing, ice skating, a children’s show. These types of attractions can also be organised at home – shadow theatre, a family viewing of a Christmas film. An invitation to the cinema, ice-skating, an exhibition, a children’s show, preparing a performance together in a home shadow theatre, a family screening of a Christmas film, etc.
4. Jigsaw puzzles will also be an unusual gift – puzzles forming a Christmas picture can be inserted into the calendar bags. One or more pieces for each day – depending on the number of pieces in the set.
5. The child can also receive more parts of the nativity scene with figures each day – one new piece of the stable each day. And on Christmas Day the baby Jesus will “appear” in it! You can also put Christmas tree ornaments in the bag to hang on the tree each day (this idea works well for decorating an artificial Christmas tree or a tree in front of the house).
Advent calendar with Christmas tree ornaments
Adventcalendar ideas for young people
What about teenagers and older children? Many of the above suggestions – such as cinema tickets, going to the ice rink and sweets – will obviously work here.
Sweet gifts in a pouch advent calendar
You can also reach for something from the following five:
- hobby-related figurines and gadgets,
- cosmetics,
- jewellery,
- gift vouchers,
- colourful socks – socks with colourful “out-of-pocket” motifs have been in vogue recently.
Advent calendar for adults – ideas
Advent calendar with candy
There are many original advent calendar ideas for adults. Explore some of them.
- women’s advent calendar with jewellery,
- advent calendar with cosmetics – versions for both men and women,
- aromatic coffee or tea sets,
- calendar with… beer or other spirits,
- and, last but not least, a rather controversial proposition: you can also find a calendar with… erotic gadgets!
And what would you put in your pouch calendar?
We realise that even such a comprehensive entry has not yet exhausted the topic! So it’s time for a competition! Tell us what you would put in the pouches of your advent calendar!
Elegant advent calendar for adults and children
We believe that good is worth sharing! That’s why you can win up to two advent calendars of your choice – one for you and one for someone close to you. Details and rules of the game can be found on our profile on FB.
