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Countdown to Christmas: DIY Advent Calendar Ideas - How to Make an Advent Calendar
The holiday season is a busy time for us all. With so many catch-ups organised and festive parties to attend, it's easy to lose track of the days and before we know it, Christmas Day sneaks up on us! Stay up to date this holiday season with the help of a Christmas advent calendar. Not only do these calendars remind you what day it is, but they are designed with a place to hold a small token or present, providing you with a gift in the days leading up to Christmas
Traditionally, you can buy advent calendars filled with chocolates at supermarkets or department stores, but this year, why not learn how to make a homemade Christmas advent calendar for a fun and festive DIY project? Online at Spotlight, you can find a great range of Christmas projects to put your crafting skills to the test. From fabric calendars with large pockets perfect for small toys, to box shaped advent calendars filled with treats, we've put together a few of our favourite Christmas advent calendar projects right here!
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- Crochet the Jolly & Joy Chain Yarn Advent Calendar For a Playful Decorative Piece
- Craft a Felt Advent Calendar and Add a Pop of Colour To Your Home
- Create a Cosy Christmas Advent Quilt
- A Christmas Carol Advent Calendar
- A Refreshing Festive Decorative Piece: Kaisercraft Advent Calendar
- Create a Glamorous Box Advent Calendar
- Jolly And Bright Advent Calendar
- Scandi Bundles Advent Calendar
- Introduce a Rustic Charm with a Hessian Advent Calendar
- The "HO HO HO" Felt Advent Calendar
- Classic Christmas Colour Combination Fabric Advent Calendar
- What To Put in an Advent Calendar?
Crochet the Jolly & Joy Chain Yarn Advent Calendar for a Playful Decorative Piece
Looking for a fun twist on traditional Christmas advent calendars? Look no further than our Jolly & Joy Chain Yarn Advent Calendar Project. This project will have you creating an adorable crochet advent calendar. With a vibrant red yarn as the base, this advent calendar project involves crocheting a four limbed calendar offering a nod to Santa, an icon of the holiday season. The arms are designed to be crocheted onto a wooden dowel or tree branch, perfect for displaying on a door or wall in your home. Consisting of small heart-shaped pockets, the Jolly & Joy Chain Yarn Advent Calendar Project is ideal for crocheters with a little more experience under their belt, looking for a way to get creative for the festive season.
Advent calendars are effortlessly whimsical with their treats hidden within their pockets. Our Felt Advent Calendar Project combines this playful nature while offering a colourful Christmas decoration to incorporate into your festive display. Beginner friendly, this project guides you through how to create an eye-catching Christmas tree shaped advent calendar made from felt. With no sewing skills required, all you need is a few craft supplies, including felt and craft glue. This project takes you through everything you need to know to create this colourful decorative piece, including how to put together the tree, pockets, and the added details of the decorations that really bring this piece together. Complete your calendar with a star at the top of the tree for that classic, traditional festive touch.
When it comes to Christmas projects, no creation is as wholesome and heartwarming as a homemade quilt. These projects make for moving gifts to a loved one but also bring an additional decorative touch to your home. Offering a twist on traditional quilt projects, this Christmas Advent Quilt Project offers a cosy opportunity to count down to Christmas. Featuring 24 pockets that you can hide extra treats in, introduce a sense of warmth to your Christmas countdown with this project. Ideal for intermediate quilters with a bit of experience under their belt, shop for a range of different Christmas fabrics in classic red, green and white colour tones for a traditional Christmas charm.
A Christmas Carol Advent Calendar
Christmas carolling is a classic tradition of the holiday season. With this Christmas Carol Advent calendar project, you can celebrate the songs dedicated to the festive holiday by incorporating elements of Christmas carols into your advent calendar. This project involves painting an assembled advent calendar in classic Christmas colour tones of red and green and adding lyrics from your favourite Christmas carols to the background of the advent calendar. You can also add rhinestones, pearls and stickers for a magical finishing touch.
Download the Christmas Carol Advent Calendar Project
A Refreshing Festive Decorative Piece: Kaisercraft Advent Calendar
If you're after a botanical-inspired theme for your Christmas decorative display this year, then this Kaisercraft Advent Calendar Project is perfect for your home. Using Christmas themed paper pads, you can add gorgeous details in blue, green and neutral colour tones and bring a refreshing decorative piece to your home.
Offering a luxurious twist on traditional Christmas decorations, this Box Advent Calendar Project is perfect for beginner crafters wanting to create a stylish advent calendar to keep track of the festive season. After you've set up your box advent calendar, paint it a rich navy blue colour. Once the paint has dried, you can then add all the paper details, including the floral pieces and numbers. For the perfect luxe touch, stick the numbers of each box down with gold washi tape.
Infuse a cheerful pop of colour into your Christmas decorations with the Jolly and Bright Advent Calendar Project. After assembling a pre-purchased wooden advent calendar, paint the calendar with metallic paint and leave to dry. You can also paint your craft letters in the same colour, or create a nice, colourful contrast with a different toned paint. After covering each box with a piece from your paper pad, adding a background to the recess and applying cut-out numbers from a Christmas paper pad, glue your letters to the recess for a joyful touch!
If you're a beginner sewist looking for your next challenge to level up your sewing skills, then this Scandi Bundles Advent Calendar Project is the perfect Christmas advent calendar project for you. Adhering to a classic Christmas colour tone of red and white, this advent calendar involves using patterned, quilted jelly rolls to create pockets sewn onto a neutral toned quilt fabric. The neutral tone serves as the perfect base for your patterned pockets to stand out. This project also takes you through creating loops to thread a dowel through, perfect for hanging your creation up for display in your home.
Decorating your home in line with a rustic theme this festive season? This Hessian Advent Calendar Project is a great project for beginner sewists looking for their next challenge. Comprising of neutral toned and Christmas themed patterned pieces of Hessian fabric as well as vibrant red cotton canvas fabric, this project will take you through how to create a range of pockets in different sizes, perfect for bringing an artistic Christmas advent calendar into your space.
The "HO HO HO" Felt Advent Calendar
Bring a cosy, cheerful accent to your Christmas decorations with the Felt Advent Calendar Project. While other fabric advent calendar projects typically involve softer or thinner fabrics such as cotton or hessian, this fabric uses the textural charm of felt fabric and encapsulates the cosiness of Christmas time. This advent calendar project involves minimal sewing, only using a needle and thread to sew your pockets to the white background piece. By gluing fabric letters to spell out 'HO HO HO', this Christmas advent calendar is a perfect gift for little kids!
Download the Felt Advent Calendar Project
Classic Christmas Colour Combination Fabric Advent
No colour combination is more symbolic of Christmas time than red, green and white, so why not incorporate this classic colour palette into your next Christmas advent calendar project? Outlining how to create a fabric advent calendar, this project takes you through all the supplies required and everything you need to know about putting together this decorative calendar. Complete with poplin fabric pockets in a range of red, green, white and patterned designs, this project also guides you through adding dowel rods for an easy presentation of your hard work.
What To Put In An Advent Calendar?
With 24 boxes, pockets or sections to fill in a Christmas advent calendar, you may struggle thinking of presents to add in. You can stick with filling each section with the same present such as chocolates or stickers, or you can switch it up with a different present everyday! Here are some of our favourite ideas of what to put in an advent calendar:
- Stuffed toys
- Lolly bags
- Stickers
- Stationery
- Christmas cookies
- Candy canes
Celebrate Christmas With A Present-Filled Advent Calendar
Waking up every morning knowing there's a small gift waiting for you is one way to feel the spirit of Christmas throughout the month of December, making advent calendars a beloved tradition of Christmastime. This year, try out making a homemade Christmas advent calendar and tailoring it to a chosen decorative theme for a friend, family member or your child!
At Spotlight, you can find all the art and craft supplies and sewing supplies you need to bring these Christmas advent calendar projects to life! You can also find a range of free, ready-to-download Christmas projects and special Christmas themed craft kits and supplies for those looking for more festive crafts to test their creative skills this holiday season! Explore our full Christmas hub for more projects and Christmas decorations online, or check out our Christmas range in person at a Spotlight store near you!
