24 creative ideas for your Advent calendar – a loving package for every day
A homemade Advent calendar is much more than just a pretty decoration—it's a daily greeting filled with anticipation, love, and creativity. This hanging calendar with 24 lovingly wrapped packages brings lightness and warmth to the Advent season. Whether filled with small gifts, sweet surprises, or personal messages—each package is a moment of thoughtfulness. The rustic branch as the support gives the calendar a natural feel and a playful, modern touch. Perfect for anyone who loves giving gifts and wants to celebrate the pre-Christmas season consciously.
Material:
- 24 small boxes
- 24 small gifts
- patterned wrapping paper
- various decorative tapes
- 24 half walnut shells
- large branch (e.g. birch)
- Christmas decorations (e.g. clip-on birds)
- 2 candle clamp holders
- 2 tree candles
- Kitchen twine
- Newsprint
- white spray paint
- red marker pen
- Scissors
- hot glue
Crafting instructions:
Divide the gifts among the boxes and wrap them in gift wrap. Then it's time to decorate: Cover the packages with various decorative tapes and wrap them with kitchen twine – horizontally, vertically, or diagonally – whichever you prefer. Leave the kitchen twine longer than necessary so you can tie it later and hang the packages from the branch.
Place the walnut shell halves, hollow side down, on the newspaper. Color them with spray paint and let them dry. Then, using the marker pen, write the numbers 1 to 24 on the shells and stick them on the packages.
To hang the branch, attach a piece of twine of the required length to the right and left sides of the branch and tie the loose end into a small loop. Hang the branch from a hook in the ceiling.
Attach the packages to the branch at different heights to give the whole thing a lively and vibrant look. Finally, decorate the branch as you wish, for example, with decorative birds and candles, as shown here. And then: Enjoy unwrapping!
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The content of this article is from the book:
Anke Schütz, Ilka Schulzki
Decoration ideas for Christmas
Gräfe and Unzer Publishing
€14.99 (D)/€15.50 (A)/€21.90
ISBN: 978-3-8338-3593-3
Advent is decorating time. But why spend a lot of money at a department store when making your own is so much fun and so much more unique! Simple decorations can be created from twigs, cones, berries, or winter flowers collected on a walk, combined with candles, clay pots, and gift ribbons. From a lantern in a bed of cones to spiced muffins with twigs as table decorations, fruity mulled wine syrup to give as gifts, or an opulent Advent wreath: these original and impressive craft ideas create a cozy atmosphere in the home and are incredibly easy to replicate.
