How to Make Your Own Christian Advent Calendar

The Christian season of Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. Many families that celebrate Christmas use an Advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas. Make your own Christian Advent calendar for your family to use to count down to Christmas. Create an Advent calendar filled with little treats for the family to enjoy starting the fourth Sunday before Christmas right up to Christmas Eve.

Things You'll Need

• 12- by 12-inch double-sided Christmas themed scrapbook paper (one piece for each day of Advent)
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Craft knife
• Cutting mat
• Double-sided tape
• Chipboard numbers
• Foam dots
• Ribbon
• Scissors
• Stapler
• Thumbtacks
• Small treats and trinkets

Instructions

1. Take your pieces of scrapbook paper and draw lines on one side of each sheet of paper from the middle of one edge up and out to the corners of the opposing side. Cut along these lines and dispose of the two side pieces from each paper.

2. Curl the triangular pieces of paper into cone shapes, securing the overlapping sides of the triangles together with double-sided tape.

3. Attach chipboard numbers to the front of each cone, using foam dots, for the dates of the days of Advent.

4. Cut one 3-inch strip of ribbon for each cone. Staple the folded ribbon to the top back of the cones to create a loop to hang the cone pockets from.

5. String the cones onto a long piece of ribbon, in order, and then tack the ribbon up on a wall with thumbtacks at the ends of the ribbon and between every fifth and sixth cone.

6. Place small treats, like candy, or trinkets, like party favor toys, in the cones to be discovered each day.