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Advent calendars are a fun and festive way to mark each day until Christmas morning arrives. Whether you're going traditional with chocolate or counting down with gin (yes, gin!) we've found the advent calendars to make it happen.
This cute kit comes with 24 festive flavors of tea in handmade numbered tea bags, 24 mini clothespins, and 4 yards of natural jute string. Hang in your kitchen or place it across your mantel, and enjoy a new tea every day leading up to Christmas.
Start each morning with a story instead of a chocolate. This advent calendar is a collection of 24 stories that you open one by one leading up to Christmas. Each chapbook is sealed, so you won't know what story you're getting until the morning you open it. It's like getting 24 presents before Christmas even arrives.
Put a small gift or chocolate in each of the drawers and each day you take one out, replacing the drawer in the opposite direction until you've completed building Santa Claus just in time for Christmas Eve.
Count down to the holidays, Play-Doh style. This cute kit comes with five containers of Play-Doh and and a festive molding shape hidden behind every door. Your kids can create Christmas joy the entire month of December.
For the fourth year in a row the geniuses at Master of Malt have brought back the Ginvent calendar. Behind each of the 24 windows lies a different sample of gin - from market leaders to craft treats. Give this to the gin lover in your life and you'll definitely make the Nice list.
A detailed miniature version of the original Advent House Calendar that appeared in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Now you can count down the days to Christmas Griswold style! Pour yourself an egg nog in your Moose Mug and you're good to go.
The tree-shaped calendar is trimmed with 25 colourful tin ornaments filled with milk chocolate and peppermint bark pieces and a $5 Mini Starbucks gift card. After you're done eating your treat, you can use the ornaments to trim your tree.
These Christmas themed pouches can be can be hung just about anywhere and will add a festive touch to your home. Fill the pouches with small toys or candies and your countdown is ready to begin.
Make memories instead of giving gifts. This kit comes with activities the whole family can enjoy together. Choose from 35 pre-made activity cards or create your own and slide them into the dated envelopes for a month of new traditions you'll remember for years to come.
Why not make your countdown about kindness? These simple acts of kindness are easy for the kids and adults of every age and you'll start each day knowing you'll add joy to someone's world. And isn't that what the holiday season is all about?
If you've run out of ideas for filling your calendar My Advent Calendar has you covered with over 1001 ideas for kids and kids at heart.
Sharon DeVellis came to work at the YMC as the Yummy Mummy Club Coordinator after winning Canada's Yummiest Mummy Contest, a contest based on creativity and not on parenting skills (*whew* wipe beads of sweat from brow).
She is now the Senior Writer and maintains the voice of YMC which sounds very similar to the voice in her head. Being crazy is finally paying off.
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