I got a little carried away with the FloraCraft Challenge this month. Here’s another project I made using their foam. Check out these Christmas Advent Calendars!
I love advent calendars. I have a ceramic set that is beautiful and since it’s breakable I don’t let my kids play with it. So I thought it would be fun to create an advent calendar that kids can play with and interact with. How it works is I print and cut out each advent character and put them in a little bag marked with the day of the month. You can also add a family activity to the day too to make it even more fun! And each day the kids get to open an envelope and put the character on the foam board. There are also two different backgrounds – one with the Christmas trees and another with a village. So as more and more characters are opened, the kids can play with the characters. Each of them is on a toothpick or wood dowel which can be moved around the board as they play. And if you want to make the characters last even longer you can laminate them!! So fun!
Here are the printables!
To download the full set, right-click the images or links below and choose “save as” for EACH printable PDF. (as always, for personal use only).
(Count Up to Christmas Background 1 PDF)
(Count Up to Christmas Page 1)
(Count Up to Christmas Page 2)
(Count Up to Christmas Background 2)
(Why four files? Because they’re large downloads.)
Have a HAPPY Day!
xox
Yes! Finally someone writes about Printable calendar.
Printing this now.:0 A little Tip, if you don’t have a laminator you can use packing tape of front and back of your prints and cute around the edges. THANKS for such a cute project. My kids will love it.
Love this!!! What type of paper/cardstock do you print the characters and the background on?? And what material is the base?? This is for my three year old so it’ll need to be durable! Haha! Thank you!! Great idea!!
These are so adorable! I am working on an Advent calendar right now. Great idea, thanks for sharing these with us!
I love this! What a sweet idea!
Awww, this is so sweet, Jen! Wonderful idea! I have a small collection of advent calendars and this looks like one I’ll have to add. Thanks so much!
Hello ! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful advent craft … just perfect for small kiddos ! I have downloaded all of the PDF’s but I am having a problem with the font written on the background PDF’s. When I right click on the image and download the image, the resolution is too small and it prints pixalated. If I download the PDF with the link provided, the result is a perfect image but the lettering is all squished together…
How did you print this ? On normal letter sized paper ? I print to Staples and I just can’t get the background right and I am disappointed ! Can you offer any advise ?
THANK YOU !!
Hi Jenny! Let me look into that. I will let you know as soon as I figure it out!
xoxo