Crafting Patterns for Advent Calendars

Crafting a Simple Advent Calendar – Patterns for Beginners and Advanced

Even if you don't have a lot of crafting experience, you can find a project that you can do among the crafting patterns for Advent calendars on our portal. We have simple calendars that are suitable for beginners like you. You can label simple paper bags, repurpose paper cups, and paint empty food cans. Or you can create your DIY Advent calendar out of empty toilet paper rolls. You only have to decorate the rolls nicely and fold them at the bottom. Any crafting beginner can do this. If you count yourself among the pros, you can venture into more difficult works of art. You could make small wooden boxes. Or you can sew tiny bags out of jute. Advanced crafters make houses out of cardboard with numbered windows, or they use stencils to conjure up a beautiful unicorn calendar. So you see, among the crafting patterns for Advent calendars there is an adequate project for every taste and every level of expertise.

Selling Crafting Patterns for Advent Calendars

If you've come up with a great Advent calendar yourself, you can share your idea with other crafting friends. If you post your crafting pattern with us, you even have the opportunity to earn a little pocket money. All you have to do is summarize the individual steps in a coherent, easy-to-understand text. Then you complete your tutorial with a few informative images (photos or drawings) and you're almost done. Now you just have to post your Advent calendar crafting tutorial on our website. How to do that and what you need to keep in mind is explained in our guide to selling tutorials.

Crafting Advent Calendars for Men

Because men are usually not that romantically inclined, you can do without glitter decoration when making Advent calendars for men. For a typical men's calendar, you use robust material. For example, you can sew small jute bags, fill them and number them with a thick black or red marker. Empty food cans that you paint with watercolors or spray paint also go down well with the men in your life. Instead of chocolate, you can fill your homemade Advent calendar for men with tiny liquor bottles. Or you can focus on the hobby of the recipient. If he's a passionate fisherman, he can discover a different little fishing accessory each day. For a passionate hobby car builder, you could distribute a small kit among the 24 little bags.

Making Advent Calendars for Women

When making an Advent calendar for women, you should pay special attention to the decoration. Besides glitter powder and small rhinestones, you can use shimmering pearls and lace ribbon. Pretty, picturesque, romantic and homey may be the typical women's calendar. If you want to give it a special touch, you can also equip your Advent calendar with small LEDs. Then it radiates additional coziness in the evenings before Christmas. Suitable fillings are chocolates - homemade or purchased - and home-baked cookies. Household items are not desired in the DIY Advent calendar for women. Unless, of course, she is a real hobby cook. Then you can hide behind the doors exotic spices, food coloring or decorative elements for baking cakes. For the hobby seamstress, you can fill the boxes with small sewing utensils.

Self-Made Advent Calendars for Babies

Even if babies cannot yet count the days until Christmas, they should not be excluded from the beautiful custom of the Advent calendar. Especially if they have older siblings, it is important that the baby gets an Advent calendar. Because the little darling cannot and should not eat chocolate, you have to make and fill an Advent calendar for the baby yourself. You can use small sacks, bags or cardboard boxes. Because you will have to help your little darling to open it anyway. You should avoid using containers that are too small, such as the yellow plastic jars from Kinder surprise eggs. Small picture books, wooden cars, bath toys, pacifiers, mobiles, and rattles are suitable fillers.

Crafting an Advent Calendar for Children

For children in particular, the pre-Christmas period is one of the most exciting times of the year. The anticipation before Christmas Eve is written all over the little ones' faces as they press their noses against the shop windows. To make this time even more exciting, you can make your own Advent calendar for kids. You can follow the preferences of your little one and at the same time limit the consumption of sweets, which is slightly increased at Christmas time anyway. In order to start the morning with excitement when you open the calendar, don't number the boxes in order. Let the little treasure search for the right number and the anticipation will increase. Instead of chocolate, the Advent calendar for children can contain fruit or cereal bars. And you can fill it with pretty writing utensils (eraser animal, funny sharpener, cool pencil), with bath bombs for kids, cute braid clips, great stickers or with small toys.

Making an Advent Calendar for Parents

If you don't want to present your parents with a gift at Christmas, but want to surprise them already during Advent, turn the tables and present them with a self-made Advent calendar. This is not difficult. You don't have to fold boxes or glue bags. If you collect small boxes and cartons of food and hygiene products in time for the first of December, you can easily make a parent Advent calendar. Stick colored paper on the different boxes and then stack them on top of each other so that they all open to the front. Once your stack is perfect, you can fix it with glue. Now all you have to do is number the sides for opening and fill the calendar. The Advent calendar for parents can be filled with homemade cookies, photos, braided bookmarks, coupons, fridge magnets and anything else you can think of.

Making Advent Calendars with Bags

To make the calendar more interesting and exciting in the days leading up to Christmas, the small gifts are not simply hung on a string, but hidden in small containers. For packaging, you can glue paper cups, fold boxes, paint cans or make small bags yourself. In our crafting patterns for Advent calendars you will find different tutorials to make bags for the Advent calendar. Either you decide for simple, rectangular bags, which you make from Christmas wrapping paper or from gold paper. Or you can fold the paper containers from white writing paper or plain colored clay paper and then glue Christmas designs on them. As decoration you can use small straw stars, attach reindeer stickers, paint snowflakes and Santa Clauses.

Crafting a Photo Advent Calendar

Not every adult has a sweet tooth. If you want to give one of these people a treat in the run-up to Christmas, you can also make an Advent calendar with photos. To do this, it's best not only to look through your own photo archive, but also to search for unusual snapshots among your family members. Once you've collected 24 great pictures, all you have to do is wrap them up. You can put them in little bags you made yourself. You can put Christmas stickers on envelopes, number them, and pin them to a bulletin board. Or you can make pretty paper envelopes for the photos. Instructions for wrapping gift certificates or admission tickets can inspire you in this process. By the way, an Advent calendar with photos is a great idea for grandparents. They're sure to not only reminisce about the fond memories your photos evoke, but also have a few anecdotes in store for you.

Advent Calendar Crafted with Toilet Paper Rolls

Even if you are not the greatest craftswoman in the world, you can make your own calendar for the pre-Christmas season. Empty toilet paper rolls are wonderfully suitable for this project. You can cover them with white paper and paint them nicely. You can use Christmas wrapping paper or Christmas napkins. Or you can color them and then decorate them with Christmas patterns. To prevent the filling from falling out of the Advent calendar made of toilet paper rolls, fold the open ends inwards in two semicircles. Alternatively, you can cover the cardboard rolls with tissue paper or crepe paper, which you leave protruding at the ends. To close, twist the excess together like an enlarged candy. The Advent calendar made of toilet paper rolls can hold chocolates, chocolate bars, cereal bars, small bags of gummy bears or office supplies.

Crafting Advent Calendars from Paper, Wood, Felt and more – Suitable Materials

For making Advent calendars, you can actually use any material that can be used to make small, not too heavy containers. The best material is paper, which can be folded and painted or glued. The heavier the filling of your Advent calendar is, the stronger the material you should use. Thick paper, cardboard and small boxes are also predestined. If you have particularly small fillings, such as homemade chocolates, you can convert the plastic containers from Kinder surprise eggs or stack empty matchboxes on top of each other and decorate them with pretty stickers. For larger small items, you can make your own bags from fabric, jute, felt or imitation leather. And if you particularly enjoy crafting with wood, you can make a small Advent house with 24 drawers out of plywood.

Tipps for Crafting an Advent Calendar

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