Advent Calendar
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Last updated on November 20th, 2023 at 05:50 pm
Best Toddler Advent Calendar 2022
I have been searching all over the internet for a unique advent calendar. Their either too expensive or I just don’t like the contents. I decided to make our own this year and it was so easy and customizable for his age! My toddler came out this morning and was in ahh over it, a few hours of work was worth his reaction!
Keep reading along to make this snowman punch out Advent Calendar!
What You Will Need
- Hot glue gun, glue sticks
- 80# Card stock – Get this thickness of cardstock so it will be strong enough to hold your gifts. It doesn’t matter what color for the rolls – I painted the face/arms and buttons with black acrylic paint on regular white paper. You can do this or get black construction paper.
- Scissors
- Clear tape & duct tape
- Rubber Bands
- Gift tissue – 3 packs of white, 1 pack of red, green and orange
Step One: Cutting
Cut 25 pieces of card stock, long ways and 6 pages of cardstock into 4 squares.
Step Two: Gluing
Roll the long pieces into rolls and hot glue them together.
Step Three: Gluing rolls on to squares
Cut one piece of cardstock into 4 squares and hot glue the rolls onto the squares.
Then I cut out the squares into circles to fit the roll better/be lighter when hanging.
Step Four: Placement
Place a roll of duct tape on the back of the paper and stick the cardstock roll to the wall. Once you get the correct layout for the snowman – this was the tricky part for me. I added One at the top for the hat, Six around one in the middle for the head, Eight around one in the middle and Ten around the one for the bottom of the snowman. I made sure the one roll in the middle lined up with rest of the rolls.
Step Five: Adding gifts
Then add your gifts. I reinforced some of the rolls on the wall, that will have the heavier gifts in them with extra duct tape.
Step Six: Placing tissue paper around rolls
Once you add your gifts, now is the time to put the white tissue paper over the rolls and place a rubber band around them to keep the tissue paper in place and cover your gift.
I cut the tissue paper in half and into 4 pieces and layered the issue over the rolls to make it less see through.
Step Seven: The Final Touches
- I drew a hat, cut it out and painted it black, with a silver belt and some holly on the side of the red buckle – I put this on the top roll.
- Cut out two bigger circles and painted black for the eyes and placed them on the face with tape.
- Cut out arms and painted them black and taped them to the wall.
- Painted 5 black circles on gift tissue paper and taped them as the mouth.
- Painted 3 black circles and placed them on the body of the snowman.
- I used orange gift issue paper as the nose, cut a triangle and taped it onto the face.
- Used one sheet of red and green and placed it around the neck as the scarf.
- Add some snowflakes around the snowman to make it extra festive!
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