Want to prepare your own advent calendar and wondering how to surprise the children with this year? We have prepared some new advent inspirations for you!
Have you already prepared your advent calendar and are wondering what to put inside? Here yoo will find some advent inspirations!
Your child will surely love his advent calendar made of jute bags!
Advent calendar – what goes inside?
Advent calendars with sweets are the most popular. You can get calendars in the shops with windows filled with chocolates, fudge, jelly beans or a mix of various sweets offered by a particular manufacturer. However, many parents have concerns that serving their child sweets from a ready-made advent calendar with sweets for 24 days will make the toddler addicted to sugar…
An advent calendar made from fabric pouches solves this problem, as you can put whatever you want into each pouch! On some days it can be sweets, while on other days it can be healthy snacks (date bar, mousse in a tube), on another it can be toys or small goodies. We have compiled a list of inspiring ideas!
You can put, for example, gingerbread cookies or molds in the boxes of your Advent calendar to cut them out
Advent inspirations – gifts for the advent calendar without sweets
Here are suggestions for gifts for children to use as advent calendar gifts. This is certainly a great alternative to a calendar with chocolates! By preparing the calendar yourself, you can give your child sweets on some days and tasks (e.g., a colouring book or a creative kit for making DIY Christmas decorations) on other days. You can also place a variety of goodies and small toys in the bags that make up the Christmas garland. See sample ideas for what to put inside the advent calendar. Additionally, consider adding some advent inspirations to make each day of the countdown extra special and memorable!
Advent calendar gift ideas for children
- Small gifts – favourite figurines (animals, people), small cars, tattoos, yo-yos,
Animal figurines – this is one idea for toys to put in the Advent calendar boxes
- Goodies nice and practical – for a girl, rubber bands and hair clips will certainly come in handy, you can also put coloured slices, Christmas socks in the bags,
- Art supplies – stickers, beads for stringing, erasers in interesting shapes, colourful washi tape, crayons, a small box of pastry cream,
- Christmas decorations and accessories needed for the Christmas tasks (task suggestions in the next paragraph).
Reindeer pendant as a gift for the advent calendar
Plywood reindeer gift idea for an advent calendar
Ideas for games and activities for the advent calendar
Task ideas for the advent calendar
Here are 24 task suggestions for your advent calendar – you can put the task cards into pouches to create a garland-like advent calendar! Use the advent inspiration below and make your own advent calendar with tasks for your kids. In brackets, we have provided suggestions for goodies that will come in handy when completing the calendar task – you can put them in a bag as a gift.
Ideas for advent calendar tasks you can put inside the pouches:
- Write and send a letter to Father Christmas (decorative stationery – card and envelope),
- Prepare a winter decoration for the window – this can be, for example, a drawing made with artificial snow or a stained glass window made of coloured paper/tissue paper (artificial snow and stencils, tissue paper/block of coloured paper black technical block),
- Have a family Christmas session – photos can be developed and put in an album or order Christmas cards with your photo (photo gadgets),
- Do some Christmas cleaning together (mini broom, cloth with Christmas theme),
- Prepare milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer (cookie mold),
- Do a good deed – prepare a parcel for people or animals in need (gift bag),
- Make a snowman – lack of snow is no excuse (depending on the weather – carrots and coal or art gadgets),
Shall we make a snowman today?
DIY Christmas ornaments from paper rolls
- Prepare DIY Christmas cards (cards, glitter glue, Christmas stickers, stamps or paint and…. potato to prepare a DIY stamp),
- A winter walk combined with sending Christmas cards (stamps),
- Watching a Christmas cartoon/movie together (popcorn, popcorn boxes with accessories to decorate them with Christmas themes),
- Decorating the house together for Christmas (DIY decoration kit),
Christmas games for children
Advent calendar with tasks – advent inspirations
- Baking gingerbread men (moulds),
- Decorating gingerbread (sprinkles, coloured candies, icing pens),
- Carol singing together or learning a new carol (printed carol text, instrument with bells),
- Prepare a gift for grandparents (missing gift ideas for Grandma and Grandpa? We suggest how children can decorate gift wrapping themselves),
Creative games for children – decorating bags
- Prepare Christmas tree decorations and dress it up (e.g. plywood baubles to decorate), you can prepare a picnic dinner by the tree,
Advent calendar with Christmas tree decorations
- Prepare a feast for the birds (accessories to make a bird feeder or seed ball for the birds or a bag of sunflower seeds for the birds),
- Make a long chain out of coloured paper (glue and cut strips of coloured paper),
- Make a long chain of coloured paper (glue and cut strips of coloured paper), prepare a nativity scene (you can buy a ready-made set, if you already have a nativity scene at home you can prepare additional decorations for it),
- Prepare the decorations for the Christmas table (cups and pottery paints/masks, accessories for decorating the candlestick, etc.)
- Talk about Christmas traditions, maybe create your own family tradition? This is a good opportunity to look at the family album (give your child developed photos from this year’s family Christmas session),
- Helping to prepare a Christmas dish (recipe for the dish, kitchen utensils and accessories for the children e.g. a kitchen apron),
- A night out admiring the Christmas decorations (thermos or thermal mug of cocoa),
- Learn to wish “Merry Christmas” in 3 different languages (card with phrases to learn).
What is the magic of the advent calendar?
Advent calendar with Christmas decorations
Finally, do you want to know the history of advent calendars and discover more advent inspiration? You’ll find in our post with advent calendar gift ideas for children and adults!
Create your own DIY advent calendar
Would you like to order an advent calendar in the form of a garland made from fabric bags? With us you can choose from ready-made advent calendar kits or compose your own kit yourself: choose bags in any size and decorative tags or number stickers. Visit the Saketos shop today and create your Christmas garland out of pouches!
Finally, we would like to remind you that every year we also prepare advent calendars for companies with your logo on the pouches! Are you interested in ordering a personalised advent calendar? Get in touch with us!
