How to make a beautiful Advent calendar with your own hands

What is Advent calendar

This is a traditional European calendar that helps keep track of the days from the beginning of December until Christmas. But this is no ordinary sheet with numbers. Most often, this card or cardboard house, behind the shutters which hide candy or other small gifts. A total of 24 or 25 calendar windows, because Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25. Every day offers a section with today's date.

Among the winter holidays with us in a big way celebrate the New Year, so that it is more logical to make 31 in the calendar window and please yourself and loved ones until the last day of the year. Although, of course, choose the number of sections at its discretion.

You can make a calendar out of anything and give it any shape. For example, numbered hang bags on a wall or a homemade Christmas trees, make panels with pockets, make winter the composition of the houses - it all depends on your taste and imagination. Instead of toys, candy, and other gifts can be put into a note with the tasks for the New Year's mood: dress up the Christmas tree, making a snowman, bake

biscuit and so on.

How to make the Advent calendar of paper or paperboard

What do you need:

• brown cardboard;
• houses templates;
• scissors;
• a common line;
• a thin metal ruler or a knife stationery;
• white pencil;
• hole puncher;
• glue;
• gifts;
• Bright yarn;
• wide tape and clothespins - optional.

How to Advent Calendar

Print on cardboard houses templates. Cut out the details of the circuit.

Attach to the line of the dotted lines and walk on them a metal ruler or a knife, without cutting through the cardboard core.

Bend the details of the planned lines.

On the back of white pencil draw snow and icicles.

Number each house. With two parties perform one hole.

Grease a small bent parts billet glue. Fold all the sides up and glue the house. The detailed process is shown in the video below.

Fashioned so the right amount of lodges and put the gifts inside. Pull into the roof opening the yarn and tie a bow.

Arrange the houses near or attach them to the tape with the help of pegs and hang on the wall.

What other options are there

Here's another calendar with paper houses. Template for them can be downloaded here.

This video shows how to make a simple calendar of paper bags:

But stunning calendar of paper boots and stars. For details you can use kraft paper, gift wrapping or even leftover wallpaper.

The most traditional version of the Advent calendar with opening windows can be made of corrugated cardboard:

That's a nice cardboard house with a retractable mesh:

Very cool looks calendar as a trunk:

How to make the Advent calendar of the hubs

What do you need:

• thin ribbon in two colors;
• scissors;
• thick branch;
• wrapping paper of two different colors;
• sleeve of toilet paper (the number of days in the calendar of the future);
• glue;
• stapler;
• thick needle, an awl or other piercing instruments;
• gifts;
• White paper;
• pencils or markers - optional.

How to Advent Calendar

Cut from each tape piece, 3-4 cm long 50-60. Put them together and tie the two ends of the branches.

Cut out several paper packaging boxes, we obernom sleeve. Half of them should be glued a paper, and the other - the other. Lubricate the first sleeve with adhesive and stick to it the edge of the paper.

Completely wrap paper sleeve. Fold the edges inward from both sides.

Fold one side of the sleeve and fix a stapler, as shown in the photo.

Another edge perpendicular to bend the opposite. If you have difficulty, see video instructions below. Top in the middle, make two holes thick needle, awl or other tool.

In the same way do the cardboard packets of the other plugs.

Put into gifts. Cut the same number of ribbons of different length as you have sleeves. Insert them into the holes as shown in the photo. One end of the tape has to stay long.

Tie a ribbon-strong unit. Short cut end of the tape.

On paper, draw or print mug with numbers to indicate the days on the calendar. Cut them out and glue on each bag.

Tie the bags to a branch at different heights, alternating in color. Try to make sure that each of them was in sight.

Cut the excess ends of the ribbons. Hang the finished calendar.

What other options are there

Similar open pouches can hang on clothespins in a row:

In this master class of sleeves made pretty boxes:

Interestingly looks Advent calendar in the form of the house:

And in the form of Christmas trees:

Cardboard sleeve can also be turned into a bright candy:

Another original calendar:

How to make the Advent calendar made of felt or fabric

What do you need:

• cardboard;
• simple pencil or pen;
• line;
• scissors;
• red, white and brown felt (can use other colors or felt with a pattern);
• chalk;
• needle;
• bright thick thread;
• round adhesive Velcro on the basis;
• glue gun;
• bright buttons (the number of days in the calendar of the future);
• cardboard and / or ready-digits;
• themed decorations - optional;
• wooden stick or branch (slightly wider than the calendar);
• twine or thick thread;
• gifts.

How to Advent Calendar

Cardboard mark the piece measuring 18 × 6 cm. Draw a horizontal line at a distance of 5 cm from the top edge. Depart from her 7 cm and draw another line.

Top make a basting on each side at a distance of 2 cm from the edge. Put them together, circling the small cap or other round object.

At the bottom of the same paint on a small arc, as shown in the photo.

Cut the excess of the planned arcs. This will be the template for the calendar pockets. Attach it to the felt and trace the fine.

Cut a piece. Likewise do other workpiece from felt of different colors. There should be as many cells will be at your calendar.

Put next to the part pattern and bend the lower part of the fabric in the same place where the planned line on the template.

Sew the fabric on the sides, to get the envelope. Line should be visible: it will be more beautiful. Similarly, make envelopes of the remaining blanks.

Glue halves circular Velcro at the top of each part and under the pocket. The details are in the video below. For reliability, you can sew Velcro to felt.

Red felt, cut a large rectangle, which will fit all pockets. The author of this calendar on the basis of a size 24 cell were 54 × 36 cm.

Schedule chalk line, departing from above 7 cm, sides - 3 cm, and bottom - 2 cm. Without departing from the intended scope of using glue-gun glue to the base prepared pockets in several rows. The video them arranged in 6 rows by 4 in each pocket. 31, the cell can be positioned, for example, an 8-series: 4 cells in 7 rows and 3 in the last pocket.

Glue the flaps on the pockets and buttons and numbers. They can be cut out of paper.

Brown or white felt, cut a rectangular piece of bases width. Example - 36 × 12 cm. If your calendar is wider customize the blank for him.

Sew the top of the base prepared piece and sew the other edge of the red felt.

At the request of the board can be cut calendar name or greeting label and stick on pockets. Side place the cardboard snowflakes. Instead, you can use homemade purchased themed decorations.

Take a wooden stick or a branch and wrap it over the top edge of the calendar. Sew the folded fabric.

Tie a piece of twine to the ends of sticks and hang the calendar. In the pockets place the gifts.

What other options are there

This calendar looks just fine, and is a lot easier than it seems:

Similar Advent calendar with a different design:

This video shows how to make individual pockets:

You can move away from the traditional sewn options and make a calendar from the hanging fabric bags:

How to make the Advent calendar made of wood

What do you need:

• wooden slats;
• a saw or other tool for cutting;
• glue for wood;
• wooden clothespins (the number of days in the calendar of the future);
• green spray paint;
• self-adhesive paper and film with a pattern;
• scissors;
• the wood in the form of a star (you can cut yourself out of cardboard);
• PVA glue;
• broad brush;
• glitter;
• burlap or other fabric;
• wide gold ribbon;
• wrapping paper, paper bags, cloth bags, socks or something else where you put the gifts;
• gifts.

How to Advent Calendar

Saw slats into six parts following lengths: 30, 38, 45, 50, 55 and 91 cm. Other information you will need two identical rack 20cm.

Put the longest rail vertically. The remaining five from top to bottom from small to large, to get a Christmas Tree.

Glue all the horizontal to the vertical rails. Two identical parts attach to the bottom of the trees on both sides - it will stand.

Vertical stick clothespins on each rail.

Cover the top side at the time of pegs and paint the tree green.

Seal pegs adhesive paper or foil. Excess cut.

Cover the star with glue, sprinkle glitter and shake off excess. Glue it on top of a wooden tree.

Place the Christmas tree, wrap the stand burlap and tie a ribbon.

Hang on clothespins gifts. In the master class they are packed in gift paper, but you can use pouches, bags or anything else.

What other options are there

Mini-calendars of the sticks for ice cream, designed specifically for the notes to tasks:

And here's how to make a wall calendar from branches. Instead of paper bags, you can use cloth bags, Christmas socks, small boxes, or simply wrap each gift wrapping paper.

Calendars optionally execute a tree. You can make a kind of wooden hanger for gifts:

How to make the Advent calendar of glasses

What do you need:

• paper for scrapbooking different colors;
• cutting for scrapbooking - optional;
• scissors;
• glue;
• self-adhesive rhinestones;
• paper cups (the number of days in the calendar of the future);
• thick needle, an awl or other piercing instruments;
• thick thread;
• cloth (the color of the paper);
• gifts;
• rubber band (the number of days in the calendar of the future);
• hoop;
• garland with lights;
• Garland in the color of the paper;
• wide ribbon.

How to Advent Calendar

To begin, prepare the decorations for the cup. For example, in the calendar have been cut out paper figures and circles, trees, balls, branches and other parts with special cuttings. If there are none, cook your own details. It can be cut to each figure a normal circle. The main thing - take the beautiful "winter" paper. Glue the top figures and decorate with rhinestones.

Glue the parts on the side of the cups.

In the middle of the bottom of the needle or awl to make holes. Pull string therethrough and strong inside tie knot. Make sure that it does not fall out. For reliability can be secured with glue thread.

Cut out the fabric around the details. The diameter must be greater than the width of the cup. Put into each glass gift, top cover with a cloth and fasten a rubber band.

Wrap wrap garlands. Tie the ribbon in one place so that the hoop can be suspended for it.

Attach the hoop cups at different heights so that they were inside.

What other options are there

Here is the Advent calendar in the form of a festive Christmas tree:

It can be made from boxes of glasses, numbered and simply place the next:

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