DIY Advent Calendar 2016

by Joanna _ ARTbyJWP

11 Materials

$10

2 Hours

Easy

Hello, everyone! Happy December! We have reached winter as the temperature goes down and down. Yesterday we saw the first snow of the year … yeah!!! And, my 5-year-old son and I had a crafty mood. We put our pens, scissors and chocolates on the desk in order to create our Advent Calendar for 2016. It is difficult to give guidelines in a strong-willed kid that believes his way is better but we cooperated well by leaving space and choices, eating some of the chocolates and making folders for more than 24 days!

MATERIALS

- gift wrapping paper

- scissors

- black marker

- confetti stars

- twine

- stapler - staple pins

- soft decorative wire

- nails - hammer

- an old empty wooden frame that I have upcycled to a photo display with wire the previous year and you can see the instructions here: https://findawaybyjwp.com/2015/03/25/diy-crafts-%E2%80%A2-creative-photo-frame-display/

Steps

- We made 24 simple small folders using the gift wrapping paper. Of course, you can just buy them instead of making them.

- We decorated them with Christmas confetti stars and we wrote the numbers with a black marker.

- We filled them with small wrapped chocolate bars. But you can fill them with candies or small toys, as well.

- And, we hang up the folders on the wires of the old frame (50x60 cm) using staple pins because with the twine they seemed too messy. You can also use clothes pins.