Would you be interested in creative ways to create your own advent calendar?
It’s actually surprising when we think about how fast this year keeps moving, December is right around the corner.
It’s almost unbelievable because a lot of us can still remember our last advent calendar like it was yesterday, and now we’re preparing to create another.
Preparing your advent calendar is a fun way to count down the days to December 25th while also gifting yourself nice things as it sparks so much joy, with each gift being better than the last.
An advent calendar can also be a great gift for a friend or a loved one.
Now is the best time to start treating yourself and your loved ones to some really nice advent calendar’s, and if you’re unsure of how to go about it, or what to have in it, we’re here specifically to help you figure that out.
This post will show you with a list of our best advent calendar ideas for the coming Christmas.
Christmas Advent Calendar Ideas
1. Christmas House Advent Calendar
We start the list with an advent calendar with a Christmas-themed house, with a little Santa, elves, chimney and a small sign that says “Merry Christmas”.
Each day has a small door that opens, which typically holds a small gift, candy, or a message.
2. Wooden House Green & White Advent Calendar
While this advent calendar features a house design like the first one, this one has a different color theme, snowflakes décor at the top.
Santa and snowmen décor, with each door having a Christmas tree décor, one door is white while the next is green and so on till the 25th door.
Each door holds something special inside.
3. DIY Snowflake Advent Calendar
Buying a ready-made advent calendar is usually a first option, however if you are a craft lover, then you can make your own nice calendar like this one.
This DIY advent calendar has small drawers some bigger or longer or wider than one another, and they hold snowflakes, ornaments, wreath, Christmas tree, and other stylish décor in white.
4. Red & White Santa-themed Advent Calendar
This calendar is designed as a square with the numbered drawers starting from the left then goes all the way to the right, comes all the way down to the bottom, then goes back to the left, and it finally goes up to where it started from.
Each day has a small décor, a Santa on his sleigh being pulled by a reindeer, with a tree decorate the middle of the calendar.
5. DIY Paper Bags Advent Calendar
When you craft an advent calendar yourself, it becomes something special, and if you decide to gift it to a loved one, it’ll be a very thoughtful more appreciated gift.
This DIY calendar features a wooden board with 24 small paper bags filled with gifts in red, deep red, pink and yellow.
6. Christmas Village Tiered Advent Calendar
A unique and beautiful calendar that’s on a different decorative level.
It shows a tiered Christmas village design where each tier is smaller than the last the higher it goes, featuring a different colored house for each day.
It also features a flacked design and decorated with small flacked trees with red berries.
7. Woodland Old-world Advent Calendar
This woodland advent calendar features an old-world design, featuring a step like shape, little houses at the top of each step, trees décor, and tree reindeer pulling Santa in his sleigh.
The front of the calendar holds the drawers from day 1 at the top to 24 at the bottom, all having different things inside.
8. BRUBAKER Advent Calendar
A commonly sold advent calendar that has a high reusable value, it’s also perfect for a gift to a friend or loved one.
The box is typically red, which opens in two for access to the little drawers that can be filled with candies, gifts, or thoughtful messages.
It features two detailed Christmas scene above the drawers, and different motifs on each drawer.
9. Wooden Christmas Tree-themed Advent Calendar
Made out of wood and styled to look like a Christmas tree.
The calendar features a silver star at the top, with the triangle tree shape allowing it to feature more numbered drawers from the top to the bottom, each drawer has a different festive motif alongside the numbers.
10. Nutcracker Soldier Advent Calendar
Now this is a beautifully crafted Christmas advent calendar.
This advent calendar features a wooden typical nutcracker soldier with its hat having four drawers, the body having twelve drawers, while the leg has eight drawers, and each drawer can be filled with a unique surprise inside.
11. Double Nutcracker Soldier Advent Calendar
Well if one nutcracker soldier design isn’t enough for you, how about two?
This advent calendar features a red house-like structure with doors numbered 1 to 24 and two nutcracker soldiers guarding the house.
12. Snowman Advent Calendar
With this advent calendar, you can incorporate the winter theme into the whole advent calendar tradition.
This calendar is a wooden whites snowman with closed eyes, carrot nose, smiling dot mouth, a red snowflakes decorated scarf, with a sign that says “25" on one of the hand, with 1 to 24 numbers drawers on the bother, all with different Christmas themed motifs.
13. Kinder Surprise Egg Advent Calendar
This can be a custom made advent calendar or a DIY advent calendar it all depends on the dealers choice really.
The calendar is made of wood and designed like a Christmas tree, with a small Santa hat on top, and 24 kinder surprise eggs with numbers beside each one.
The eggs contain a toy or gift inside a plastic capsule, in addition to the chocolate that’s usually in it.
14. Wooden Book Advent Calendar
An advent calendar that’s designed to look like a book.
When the wooden book is opened, it reveals a large green Christmas tree and other little red décor inside the back of the book, while the doors are either red or green with numbers 1 to 24 written in white, they hold different types of gifts, candies and messages.
15. Wooden Reindeer Advent Calendar
A reindeer ties into the Christmas theme nicely, they are usually associated with Santa Claus.
A red wooden reindeer has 24 small drawers either in white or red, all of them are designed with different Christmas-themed décor.
16. Dala Horse Advent Calendar
Dala horses are usually wooden carved and painted horses which originated from the Sweden province of Dalarna.
This horse is wooden, painted blue, decorated with small cash bags with numbers on them, and different colored drawers on both sides have numbers from 1 to 24, while holding different types of surprises.
17. Wooden Ferris Wheel Advent Calendar
A unique take on the traditional advent calendar.
This is a red and green Ferris wheel, it features 24 drawers, with some on the wheel itself, and some at the base.
The drawers hold small gifts, treats or notes, which creates a nice rolling effect for the daily countdown to Christmas.
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Conclusion
Among many others, advent calendars have always been the most cherished way people anticipate the arrival of Christmas on December 25th.
Advent calendar’s origin can be traced back to Germany, specifically Germany in the 19th century, however back then it had more traditional style, before it started to change with the modernization of society.
With our list of some of the best advent calendars, we can guarantee you that you’re about to have one of the best Christmas celebration ever.
On that note, we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance.
