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Preparing for the New Year

For a while, while I didn't have children, I lost my sense of anticipation. I wasn’t looking forward to holidays—not my birthday, not New Year—I didn’t want anything. And then our little rays appeared in our sumya, and I wanted to give them a fairy tale, to make the wait festive and exciting.

I’ll say right away - all the preparation will fall on your shoulders. BUT! You have the power to raise your husband’s expectations, and then he too will “get involved” and help. Your task is to learn to ask 😉 Don’t be shy. However, first, work on yourself. I suggest several points of preparation.

Analysis of past New Year holidays

Remember how you, your parents, friends, acquaintances celebrated the last New Year and write down:

What did you personally like? — What ideas, gifts, decorative elements, etc.
What was missing? - What you might like, but you would add some zest.
What was particularly successful and would you like to repeat? — What ideas would you bring to life again, and maybe even make it a family tradition?

Deciding on our desires

If you write all this down, you can decide what exactly you want this year:

For myself personally
For husband
For children
For home
For friends

And what exactly is most important to you: communication with your spouse or just a break from work; meeting with friends or traveling with walks; organizing a fabulous holiday for children or culinary experiments.

You can also think about and write down whether you have family traditions? For example, we have. In December, my husband and children learn carols and generosity, and then on holidays we go to guests to carol, give generously and sow. Also at Christmas we definitely gather with my husband’s parents and celebrate this holiday with our family and according to all the canons.

In addition, at the end of the year, my husband and I analyze the past year and write wishes and dreams for the future.

Think about what traditions your family has or could have?

DIY Advent calendar for children

Came to us from Europe - these are the days before Christmas. The word itself is translated into Russian as “ Coming" Gradually, this tradition spread to other holidays (New Year, Birthday). You can call it a calendar of waiting, anticipation, or simply a pre-holiday calendar. Advent calendars allow kids to visually see how many days are left until the New Year(or another event if you use it all year round, like we do). Our calendar looks like this:

You can buy a ready-made calendar, make one like ours with your own hands, or find a lot of examples on the Internet.

The task of parents in this case: think through and find a place for the calendar (it is very important that children have access to it, so that it hangs in a visible place, but does not distract from their studies, for example).

tasks
gifts or sweets that a child/adult receives as a reward.

For everyone together (we do it with the whole family, and if the child refuses to do it, we don’t make a tragedy out of it 😉)
For one member of seven on different days (each performs his task on his own day)
Only for children
Adults only

Advent Calendar Activity Ideas

I offer you a list of tasks that we have already tested on ourselves (every year I change some tasks, but I can repeat others). Before you dive into my list, think and write down what your family absolutely must do in preparation for the holiday - these things can be included in Advent tasks. What I particularly like is highlighted in bold:

Make a Christmas tree toy (mom first finds a master class and prepares materials)
Do it yourself postcards for grandmothers (appliques, drawings) and send by mail
Do pomanders
Decorate a Christmas tree
Draw/write a letter to Santa Claus
Watch New Year's cartoons together (“The Snowman-Postman”, “12 Months”, “Well, Just Wait. Issue 8”, “Winter in Prostokvashino”, “How the Hedgehog and the Little Bear Celebrated the New Year”, “Umka is Looking for a Friend”)
Conduct video interview, ask the same questions from year to year and watch how the answers change). For example: what do you like to eat, what do you like to do, your favorite toy, favorite car, what do you want as a gift from Santa Claus, etc.
Cut out snowflakes or animal figures and glue them to the window with soap
Make homemade ice cream
Make edible cottage cheese snowballs
Make a New Year's applique
Build a Christmas tree from unusual objects (from cubes, glued pasta, construction sets)
Make a scene from plasticine: Christmas tree, snowman, symbol of the year
Pour semolina onto a tray and draw “winter motifs”
Conduct experiments with ice
Go outside and sprinkle the snow with colored water
Sledding down the hill with the whole family
Blind salt dough toys and hang it on the tree
Bake gingerbread cookies
Arrange a New Year's photo shoot in the studio or at home against the backdrop of twinkling lights, a Christmas tree, etc., cut out large numbers “2017” and hold them in your hands or stick them on the wall
Go outside/balcony and try blowing soap bubbles in the frosty air
Read a fairy tale about winter (give a small New Year's book)
Tell your child the New Year's customs of your country(having previously prepared the material)
Talk about New Year's traditions in other countries
Draw a winter picture on the window with toothpaste or paints (Santa Claus, snowman, snowdrifts, Christmas tree or spruce branch decorated with balls)
Make a symbol of the New Year - from plasticine or draw it large on cardboard, cut it out and hang it in a visible place
Learn a quatrain or more about the New Year
Go to visit those whom we haven’t seen for a long time
Build a snowman while walking and throw snowballs
Go to a show at a puppet theater
Go to the Christmas tree in the city center
Go to the zoo - take gifts to the animals (bread, a loaf for artiodactyls) or just buy a bag of millet and feed the birds in the nearest park
Visit the estate of Santa Claus
Make and hang a bird feeder, adding food there every day
Make a garland from paper, rowan, etc.
Listen and sing New Year's songs, dance in circles
Prepare New Year's costumes for the whole family, for a matinee in kindergarten/school
Make a winter drawing, collage
Make original wishes for loved ones (cards, collages, videos, calendars)
Buy/make gifts for family and friends
“Approve” the New Year’s menu at the family council
Make a New Year's composition from pine branches and Christmas tree decorations.
Decorate a Christmas tree in your yard
Solve New Year's riddles
Go to the New Year's fair
Make an ice Christmas tree toy and hang it in your yard (freeze a glass of water in the refrigerator in which to place decorations and a small piece of wire from which you can hang the toy)
Do a good deed and help those who need it
Wrap gifts
Make snow-covered tree branches (required: 2-3 tree branches, salt, glass jar or vase)
Paint a candle with acrylic paints or make a candle holder
Come up with and rehearse a New Year's performance that will be pleasant to show to grandparents in the first days of the holidays
Go ice skating or skiing with the whole family
Invite your friends over for a New Year's Eve party (many children go on vacation, so meeting up and playing at home before the holidays is a great idea)
Prepare handmade gifts for teachers or educators
Come up with little surprises for your beloved friends from kindergarten or school
Decorate your entrance or floor (just don’t forget to remove all the snowflakes, garlands and balls later!)

I also offer a list of tasks that are intended for mom and dad.

Advent calendar tasks for adults

Watch a pre-selected good New Year's film, for example "The Family Man", "Exchange Holiday" or "Intuition"
Write down memories of the past year (the brightest event of the year, the saddest memory, the best achievement, the biggest purchase, the best film, book, song of the year, the most interesting cultural outing, the most fun meeting of guests, the disappointment of the year, the discovery of the year, etc.)
Write a “Letter to Next Year” - with plans and wishes for your family (seal and open only for the next New Year)
Go to your special place (where you met or where you had many pleasant moments)
Write 10 character traits that you like in each other
Write notes for each other: “I feel loved when...” (this is from the good book “The Five Love Languages”, it helps a lot to understand a partner, sometimes it allows you to learn amazing things about each other)
Evening of kisses, kiss each other everywhere and for everything (for the washed dishes, for a cup of tea, for the fact that I have you)
Buy massage cream and massage each other
Go to your favorite restaurant
Order pizza, sushi or make it yourself in the evening
Take the train (car) and go to a neighboring city on the weekend- walk along the snowy streets, see how they decorated the Christmas tree (leave the children with their grandmothers)
Climb into the darkest closet of your apartment and throw out unnecessary things

The one who completes the task receives a prize. It can be:

Goodies: dried fruits, tangerines, cranberries in sugar, dried fruits, gingerbread cookies, marshmallows, gelatins, marshmallows, cookies, candies, kinder surprise, small chocolates. Consider that they can last for a month if you immediately wrap them for Advent.
Present. These can be different little things: a figurine of Santa Claus, a Snow Maiden or a snowman; new brushes, paints; pencils, sharpener; plasticine; stickers; bubble; air balloons; New Year's book; coloring; small mosaic; a small construction set (or buy a large set and give it out in parts every day); figurines from some collection - give out one at a time and, in the end, you will assemble a collection; Christmas tree decorations; beads; flashlight or luminous keychains; yo-yo; spirograph; stamps; cookie cutters, etc.

How we use the Advent calendar all year round

On the last day of each month, we change the month, hang new numbers and mark with sticky strips the days on which our family and friends have birthdays or memorable dates.

Our discussions might look something like this:

Which month ended? What month is next/previous?
Today is the last day of summer, what season is next? What's the previous one? What seasons/seasons do you know?
What is the first month of autumn? Second? Third?
How many days are there in this month, let's put them on the calendar and count them.

What else do you need to prepare for the holiday?

Menu planning

Think and write down:

How many holidays will you celebrate? (St. Nicholas, New Year, Christmas, Old New Year).
When is the main feast?
What will you cook?
What products are needed?
What can you buy in advance?

To do this, you can fill out a simple table that will greatly facilitate your preparation:

What to do on holiday?

If you are celebrating at home, you need to organize leisure time. Look for different game and entertainment scenarios, as well as equipment for them. Here, too, you can fill out a simple sign and be sure to involve your husband and children. Ask the kids what games they know, what they like and want to play. I’ve already written you a couple of ideas :)

Gift selection

Sometimes this is a very painful question. Who should I give what to? When to buy if you don’t have time to go to stores. In this case, I propose to fill out the table and write down:

List of recipients
Budget for gifts
Who do you give what to?

Name	What to give	Price	Where can I buy	Package	Postcard	Readiness

If you don’t know what to give, use love languages: time, gifts, words of encouragement, touch, help.

How to determine your love language:

How does a person express his love for you?
What does he ask for most often?
What is the most common complaint?
What do you quarrel about most often?

Gift options: toy/card with a child's handprint and a New Year's motif; Christmas tree decoration with a photo of the whole family; photo calendar; sweet Christmas trees (paper cone, and stick sweet bars on it from bottom to top with tape); a bottle “dressed” in a New Year’s costume; handmade soap or candles; a jar of wishes (or with wish candies); basket with wishes:

Bread so that there is no hunger in the house
Broom to keep the house clean and free from evil spirits
Candles to always have light in the house
Coins to live in abundance
Honey - to make life sweet
Knives to protect your home from intruders
Olive oil so that the owners are full of health and well-being
Plants to bring life to your home
Rice so that love in the house grows and multiplies
Salt to make life taste
Wine so that you may have joy and not thirst
Wood so that the home has stability, harmony and peace

Our family has developed a gift tradition for grandmothers - for the sixth year in a row we have been ordering photo calendars. Our relatives simply don’t want any other gifts. There is a calendar for them and photos of their beloved grandchildren.

Remember!

IT’S IN OUR HANDS TO CREATE A NEW YEAR’S MOOD FOR YOURSELF AND THE WHOLE FAMILY! 🙂

Holy Merry!

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Photos of Advent calendars are taken from the Internet (except for my own 😉)

As soon as I learned about such an interesting tradition as the Advent calendar, I immediately wanted to try to introduce this custom in our family. True, last year I was a little worried that my daughter, at only 2 years old, might not understand the whole essence of the tradition or would be too “tired of waiting” for the holiday with such advance preparation. But, as it turned out, all the worries were in vain, the daughter was delighted with such an interesting preparation for the holiday and with the surprises that awaited her every day in the advent calendar. Therefore, this year the miracle calendar will again decorate our pre-holiday days.

After all, the sweetest thing about any holiday is the anticipation of the holiday. And together with the New Year's advent calendar, waiting is much more fun. Thanks to him, a festive atmosphere will reign in the house long before the New Year. In addition, it will help to better acquaint the child with the holiday and involve him in an interesting creative process. The Advent calendar tells the child every day what interesting events await him today, what surprises and tasks Santa Claus has prepared for him on this day.

In this article I want to talk about how you can design a New Year’s Advent calendar, what tasks and gifts you can include in it. When my daughter was 2 years old, our advent calendar was designed only for the last 10 days of the outgoing year. It seems to me that for this age this is the most optimal duration. This year, I plan to start early and stretch out the pleasure for 20 days.

Advent calendar design

On the Internet you can find a huge number of different ideas for decorating a calendar with your own hands. Basically, advent calendars are designed so that for each day of waiting there is a small container in which you can put a small surprise for the child. The container can be pockets, drawers, socks, jars, cardboard houses, etc. If the gift does not fit in the box, you can put a note “Look for the gift under the pillow” or include a photo of the place where the gift is hidden. All containers are marked with numbers that correspond to the number of days remaining until the holiday.

Option 1

This year our advent calendar features a small town made of cardboard houses. These are mostly small one-story houses, but there are also two-story and even three-story buildings. To make small houses, I used templates found on the Internet, for variety I used different ones, here are the ones that I liked the most: template 1, template 2, template 3. I deliberately cut off the bottoms on all the templates, otherwise how would I get the gifts out of the houses if they were sealed? (Just in case, here's these same templates with bottoms). The layouts are printed on colored cardboard in A3 or A4 format, cut out, glued with PVA glue and you're done!

I made two- and three-story buildings according to the logic of template 2, only I changed the dimensions of the roof and walls. Also inside the two-story houses there are transverse cardboard partitions so that a gift from the 1st floor does not interfere with a gift from the 2nd floor

Option 2

Last year our advent calendar consisted of 10 gnomes based on cylinders. Generally speaking, Santa Clauses were originally intended, but my daughter considered them more similar to gnomes, and I agree with her.

I will briefly tell you about the process of making such gnomes (Santa Clauses). The cylinder is made of A4 colored cardboard, secured at the back with tape and a stapler. The bottom bottom is also made of cardboard and secured with a stapler. It’s not difficult to make a gnome’s face – all you need is colored paper, cotton wool and PVA glue. Well, on top, instead of a hat, there is an ordinary sock of an adult. Preferably bright, colorful and not too narrow, because... From sheet A4, cylinders are obtained with a fairly large diameter. On the side we sign a number indicating the number of days remaining until the New Year.

Option 3

And here is our 2017 waiting calendar. This is a town again but with significant changes. You can read more about it.

Tasks for the New Year's advent calendar

I put all the tasks in the advent calendar in the form of short notes. While my daughter couldn’t read and we just did, I wrote terse notes with large block letters and read the assignments together. Now that he already reads well, the size of the note need not be limited to 2-3 words. In general, you can also try to represent tasks in the form of pictures.

Also, every day, all the necessary props for completing the task are included in the advent calendar or next to them.

So, the task options:

Decorate a Christmas tree

Decorate the house for the holiday , for example: and other decorations, hang tinsel, decorate windows and mirrors with snowflakes, etc. We really love decorating mirrors with these ready-made sets of glass stickers.

Cook together or .

Write a letter to Santa Claus. If your baby doesn’t know how to write yet, this doesn’t mean that you have to do without this interesting task. Firstly, if the baby already knows the letters, you can try together to form words from the letters or syllables you have prepared in advance. If you haven’t become familiar with letters yet, or you don’t want to play with them, you can compose a letter from pictures.

Hello, dear friends of my blog! I haven’t even started writing the article yet, but I’m already in a festive mood. Still would! After all, today we will be inspired by magical ideas and create a New Year’s Advent calendar 2018. Let’s consider interesting options so that each of you can make it with your own hands, even if you are not used to handicrafts! I’ll also give you a lot of cool ideas for assignments and Advent activities. These 2 lists are my little gift to you to make your calendar amazing and fun.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been wanting to make an advent calendar for my son for two or three years now. However, something always got in the way. Either there was not enough imagination, or mood, or time. But this time I will definitely do it. The child’s age is just right (5 years old), and you can come up with a lot of interesting tasks, and even the youngest one will be one year old, she will also get something.

While I was looking for possible options for advent calendars for myself and you for the coming 2019, many times I came across interesting variations in almost any type of needlework. So, if you like to sew, you can sew New Year’s bags from multi-colored fabric or sew a Santa Claus figure with pockets. Pockets made of felt, or with stripes made of it in the form of snowflakes and figures, look very nice.

If you like to embroider, you can embroider a picture with a New Year’s motif on fabric, and under the picture sew pockets for all days, decorating them with symbolic small elements. By the way, if you take not ordinary fabric, but plastic canvas, then the work will hold its shape, it will be easier to hang it on the wall and it will look even more unusual.

For those who know how to knit, prepare colorful socks or caps or bags. For those who are keen on scrapbooking, decorate matchboxes or full-fledged boxes, make a desk calendar. You can also make an Advent album in which interesting tasks will be hidden in pockets, and next to them will be a subsequently printed photograph of how the child completed them. Cool, did I come up with this?)

If you love baking, then look towards gingerbread houses, or just dough figures - snowmen, men, snowflakes, etc. Use protein cream to write the corresponding numbers on them, and then just make sure that the child does not gobble up all the creations with joy.

But even if you don’t know how to do anything, don’t rush to get upset! After all, an advent calendar can be made using any available means - multi-colored and even plain white paper, cut out or ready-made snowflakes, plastic cups, baby food jars, wooden planks, beads, lace, stickers, tin buckets, boxes, colorful socks , caps and much more. What is your imagination enough for?

Advent calendar what is it

I was so carried away by ideas that I almost forgot to tell you what an advent calendar is. Surely, my inquisitive readers will be interested to know how it arose. In general, the word Advent comes from religion, which means the period of the beginning of the Nativity Fast (adventus - arrival). While waiting for the Nativity of Christ, people carefully prepared for it.

Of course, the adults knew exactly how much time was left before the Holiday. But how to convey this to children was up to the adults to decide for themselves. For example, the inventive Lutheran theologian Wichern solved this question in this way. At the same time, he raised several ripples, whom he took into his house from the poorest families. And each of them bombarded our hero with questions about when Christmas would come.

Soon he got pretty tired of it. Still would. Tired of endless questions, he simply left home before the holidays. Joke. He made a wreath from a large wooden wheel. So what, you might think. So, this wheel was carefully decorated with candles, small of which were lit alternately every day. And the big ones are on Sundays. After this, the children themselves clearly saw and calculated when the long-awaited day would come.

But this is not an isolated example. Thanks to similar questions from another child, his mother once baked 24 meringues, attaching them one at a time to paper. Her little Gerhard Lang tore them off and ate one a day. Growing up, inspired by this idea, he offered to print a waiting calendar at the printing house where he worked.

So, back in 1903, the first printed Advent was published in Germany. It consisted of pictures of toys and Christmas poems. In addition, children could put special stickers on top of the windows with poems. This created a real sensation, and soon other companies began to develop their own calendars.

The popularity of Advent has experienced ups and downs, and also depended on the situation in the world. So, in times of war and famine, instead of Christian symbols and cute pictures, soldiers and guns appeared. During food shortages, chocolate and sweets were no longer used.

Now these calendars are again popular all over the world. You've probably seen chocolate sets with opening doors on sale? In addition to these, they are also sold in the form of books, toys and posters. But the ones that are made with your own hands are probably still more interesting for a child.

And by the way, it is not necessary to make such a calendar secret from the child! If you start making this together, then in addition to joy and entertainment, you will bring a lot of benefits and become emotionally closer while creating together! What could be more valuable than childhood memories?

The beauty of advent calendars is that children are immersed in the magical anticipation of the New Year. And so that they don’t get bored, you can help them cope with the tedious anticipation, teach them how to count days and time, and at the same time spend time usefully.

How to do it? Every day the child receives a small task that accompanies a new number on the calendar. Try to make them really interesting, not just educational, and have a winter theme. You know best what is best for your child.

Advent calendar tasks for children

And I will offer only a small list of ideas for tasks in the advent calendar. Some of them are educational, some are entertaining. I think from 50 points you will choose something interesting for yourself!

Learn the dance of little ducklings and dance with the whole family
Make a Christmas tree toy
Cut out snowflakes
Learn a New Year's poem
Do any good deed
Learn and perform a New Year's song
Make a bird feeder and feed them
Bake cookies or decorate your mom's
Make a gingerbread house with your mom
Skiing/sledding/skating
Watch a New Year's movie
Decorate the house for the holiday, decorate the Christmas tree
Make a gift
Make your own postcards
Build snowmen on the street
Play snowballs
Do experiments with water and ice
Come up with plans for next year
Write a list of achievements and interesting events for the current year
Go to the theater
Create your own home idea
Any creative work that is interesting to the child (burning, tinkering, building, sculpting, drawing, embroidering...)
Complete a quest on a specific topic
Arrange a family photo session
Go on a visit or invite someone to your place
Throw a masquerade party
Go to the cinema
Launch firecrackers, fireworks on the street
Take a trip to the winter forest with your family
Read a book about winter or upcoming holidays
Find out how New Year is celebrated in different countries
Write a letter to Santa Claus
Take a walk around the city decorated for the holidays
Go with the whole family to a cozy cafe
Write your own fairy tale
Choose or make a costume for the New Year
Make carnival masks
Make homemade ice cream
Play board games with family or friends
Make an album with photos
Girls get a new haircut, boys get a new haircut
Take the quiz, solve the crossword puzzle
Make a garland (from paper, beads, cardboard or other materials)
Make homemade play dough
Prepare salt dough, make figures and paint them
Come up with a New Year's wall newspaper for the whole family
Prepare candied tangerine peels
Have a warm family evening with candles, heartfelt conversations and goodies on the table
Make funny prediction notes for New Year's Eve
Assemble puzzles

Share in the comments any other tasks that can be added to this list!

Advent calendar content ideas

These were assignments. But these calendars can be filled with all sorts of surprises that cause surprise and delight in children. And even if they do not fit into the designated compartments, this is not a reason to refuse them. Prepare, for example, a holiday package, and the child will know that a present will be waiting for him there every day. Below is a huge list of ideas for what you can put:

Sweets – both store-bought and homemade (kinders, cookies, chocolates, marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, chupa chups...)
Nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits in beautiful packages
Small figures (soldiers, animals, etc.)
Hair clips, hair ties
Children's cosmetics
Pencils, wax crayons, felt-tip pens, stamps, paints, brushes, plasticine, etc.
Stickers, including New Year's on windows
Blanks for creativity
Child's collectibles
Air balloons
Small toys
Coloring pages
Bubble
Baby books
Kaleidoscope
Rubik's cube and other puzzles
Puzzles.
Face painting
Compass, city map
Flashlight
Funny mittens or socks
Unusual mug
Stencils for drawing
Bath toys
Constructors
Stand for markers and pens
Tickets for cinemas and other events
Magazines
Slime.
Antistress toys.
Children's tie or bow tie.
Set of engravings
Children's thermos
Sequins, glitter
Glow in the dark markers
Rubber jumpers
Firecrackers
Sparklers
Serpentine
Molds for kinetic sand or creating plaster figures
Small mirror
A beautiful comb or comb
Sky paper lantern
Doll furniture
Children's sword for games
Handbag, cosmetic bag or backpack
Beautiful pencil case.
Notepad
Multi-colored note block
Snowball
Bath bombs
Aroma candle
Ring throw
Road checkers or backgammon
Magnets
Crystal growing kit
Reflectors for clothes
Bell or other bicycle accessories
Sports water bottle
Carnival accessories
Decoration
Badges for clothes
Flashlight lamp
Musical instruments (tambourines, accordions, pipes...)
Mosaic
Hand toys
Finger Theater
Matryoshka
Checkbox
Fun toothbrush
Ice cream molds
Ice freezing molds
Multi-colored juice straws
Money box
Children's wallet
Spirograph for drawing
Water polo toy
Towel expanding in water
Tattoo stickers
Keychain
Calendar

Well, do you like lists? I am 100% sure that you yourself would not give up such wealth if you were a child. What can I say, some items will be nice for adults too!

This means that if you have the time and opportunity, you can try and provide suitable gifts and tasks for your husband and close relatives.

I hope you are filled with inspiration and are already thinking about how to make a 2019 advent calendar for your children. Which means the most interesting things are ahead. Create, go for it! Wishing you a Happy New Year and priceless moments!

Until next time, Anastasia Smolinets

Good day!

Today I took on a rather unusual topic for analysis. Some people may not even know about something like this and what they eat it with, ahaha))). Honestly, I myself learned about such a craft a couple of years ago and was immediately interested in the idea. Now I’ll tell you in more detail, if literally translated, the advent calendar is some kind of little cheat sheet or reminder that something very, very important will happen soon. For example, the most important event (date) in your life, Birthday or New Year.

Usually these things are done for children, and they play with them and wait for the right moments. But, I’ve even seen options for husbands, can you imagine?

We all don’t really like to wait, it just happens that way, don’t you agree? It’s precisely this little thing like Advent that will help us have more fun and count the moments. I suggest not buying it in a store, as many do, but making it yourself, using various available tools.

Well, let's figure it out together, choose the stencils and templates you need and like, then run to print and surprise your little children. I hope everyone, without exception, will like the selection, learn with me.

It turns out that such a number was invented in Catholic families; children eagerly tore off the sheet of paper and, having completed the task, received a pleasant surprise, such as fruit or sweets. Therefore, I propose to celebrate the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays with mysterious anticipation. Follow all the recommendations and you will definitely succeed.

After all, nothing is impossible, especially when children are already familiar with such calendars and ask for them again and again every year.

We will need:

wrapping paper or scrap paper 6 by 10 cm (there will be a hem for the envelope on one side and the other 2 cm and 3 cm)
scrapbooking paper, size 30 by 30 cm
scissors
rhinestones and decorations
stationery knife
glue or double-sided tape
thread or ribbon
felt-tip pen or marker

Stages:

1. First, you need to cut the required number of rectangles from wrapping paper, measuring 6 by 10 cm (determine the number yourself, prepare as many as you want to have envelopes).

3. Tie each envelope with thread or ribbon and glue it to scrap paper.

4. Decorate with rhinestones and sign the numbers on the envelopes, they will indicate dates.

Place tasks inside each paper bag, here is a sample, or come up with your own.

The next product is also incredibly beautiful and the author decided to create a calendar from ordinary bags. Which are also made by hand. Here are step-by-step instructions in pictures.

Such bags will also decorate your home and give a certain mysterious look to the walls (you will see this later). They will need to be made from scrap paper in the amount of 31 pieces.

Then glue chips onto each copy. They need to be cut, want some samples?

Then use it for your health.

All that remains is the final touch, hang everything on tinsel and decorate it in some other stylish way.

And if suddenly for some reason it was not clear to you how and what is glued where, then please refer to this video.

Master class on how to make an advent calendar for children from paper (templates inside)

Well, we’ve come to some more work, the simplest and not the most difficult. Even schoolchildren can handle them. Well, and you, as parents or teachers, even more so.

Well, let's start with the craft, it will be in the form of paper ribbons, which you must thread on a string.

I have presented the templates below, but if you want, I can send them by email in PDF format.

An equally interesting template in the form of a children's game with windows, carefully cut out the outlines along the dotted lines with a stationery knife, and attach a sheet with tasks.

Here’s another idea in the form of an adventure map; at the bottom you’ll have to make a chest or box for surprises.

Do you want it enlarged? Keep it up, some of you really asked, and dreams should come true))).

Here are ready-made samples.

Beautiful advent calendar for a child for the New Year 2020

The most long-awaited holiday that comes to us in winter and which all children look forward to. This is, of course, New Year or Christmas. So let's make the expectations even brighter.

To do this, you will need notes containing tasks. You can take absolutely any from this article, or take these.

Or these cards.

Some may find the empty ones boring so they can come up with the right games themselves.

So, fold the tasks into a tube and tie them with ribbon or thread. Place them in a jar and pull out one note every day.

After completing the task, glue cotton wool onto Santa Claus, or you can use cotton pads or crumpled napkins directly onto his beard in the form of a ball.

Here are a lot of templates in the New Year theme (Father Frost, Santa). Download any picture to your computer, paste it into Word and print. This one below is available in a large size; it will need to be printed on several A4 sheets.

Toddlers and slightly older children really like this activity, I assure you. After all, they are exploring the world!

If you have more than one child at home, then make two calendars at once so that there are no fights and insults.

Here are a couple more ideas, this is a wonderful Elf and a fawn.

The simplest thing is Adventik, when you need to paint over the desired date with a felt-tip pen. Catch the Christmas tree.

Or do you prefer a winter composition?

Friends, but that’s not all, I managed to find one cool option that will be of interest to children in preparatory or high school kindergarten or elementary school students. Here are the instructions.

If you still don’t understand who makes such a calendar, then now you’ll figure it out when you see this picture. It turns out that you need to print grandfather and a tear-off beard, request the text for the beard from me through the comments, I will send it to everyone for free by email.

The beard will be made of two parts that need to be glued together, I show one part here (as you can see, the text is difficult to see, so ask, everything looks clear in the document, for some reason it shows here).

For very young children, such countdowns will be difficult, so I suggest shortening the days and waiting a week before the upcoming day.

Or you can even make a Christmas tree on which you glue one paper ball every day.

As soon as the balloons run out, the New Year will begin.

Advent with tasks for schoolchildren

In a rather original way, you can imagine Advent in the form of houses. And it’s not at all difficult to complete them, especially if your child is in school and is 6-7 years old.

I have all the samples in the archive, unfortunately I can’t put them all in the article, they are in this form.

Or these little ones, I also have them in my archive, I found them in one group on VKontakte.

There is also a superb work in the form of cubes from which you can lay out a mosaic in the form of a Christmas tree.

And here are the tasks themselves, download and print them out. They are not difficult, and are suitable for absolutely all age categories (5-6 years), and even kids (3-4 years).

A pretty cool idea to create an advent calendar was published on the YouTube channel. Moreover, the creator shared his author’s work. I want you to watch this story too. Bravo!

Advent calendar made from matchboxes

You have no idea, but it's really cool! Such a thing is unlikely to stand on its own; as soon as children see it, they will immediately begin to question and play. In addition, the advantage of such a craft is that it will last you more than one year. That's for sure!

To begin with, I suggest you master the simplest option, click on the view button.

Now, as for more complicated work, you can design it in the form of a box or a funny house. Use your imagination, glue, scissors and scrap paper.

And now the master class, all the description will be immediately in the photo. So, what a job, friends!

By the way, you (if you are a teacher or teacher) can involve your parents in this matter so that they can later use such a miracle in kindergarten.

So how did you like it? I really like this, such a good idea, respect to the author. And here is another picture from the Internet.

Advent calendar ideas for kids

Well, we’ve reached some more surprisingly unusual options, I’d like to show you everything, but the note is not rubber-stamp). I collected everything that I haven’t talked to you about yet, so let’s go.

A wonderful and creative calendar would be an option using plastic cups. It will turn out quite voluminous. Look, you can take cups from under Rastishka.

Here is a set in the form of a locker.

Lovers of felt toys need to make this creation in the form of stars.

Use any available means.

If you like this method of decoration, write to me and I will send you templates for the pockets.

The pockets will be in this format:

They even used clothespins, and it looked like a snowflake.

Or hang bags with surprise moments on them.

In the West, it is customary to make such calendars from socks or knitted mittens.

And if it’s a child’s birthday, then make his expectations brighter, for example, create a flower like this from lollipops. And pull out one every day, when they end, the long-awaited day will come. Great idea, isn't it?

And here is another option from kinder surprises (that is, their plastic cases).

Would you like another idea, wow, it’s light and at the same time cool, made from balloons.

This is the post for today, from which you learned about how to make an advent calendar and what it is actually needed for. Take note, because there are many holidays throughout the year.

I wish you all good luck, inspiration and patience. Click on the social media buttons, share your finds and write reviews and comments at the bottom of the note. Thank you all for your attention, and see you again! Goodbye.

New Year's advent calendar for children - a new unusual tradition?

You can create a special atmosphere of anticipation for New Year's miracles in your home yourself. Often, on the eve of the holiday, children ask their mothers and fathers the question of when will the New Year come, when will the Snow Maiden and Father Frost come and put the desired gifts under the Christmas tree? An advent calendar will help your child feel the time before the New Year. Every day of December, a surprise prepared in advance from Santa Claus’s assistants will await him. Together with your little one, you can become immersed in this magical New Year's fairy tale, where little children's dreams come true.

What is an advent calendar?

The Advent calendar in European countries is called the Advent calendar or the waiting calendar. It is a special calendar that counts down the time until the New Year on December 31st. This is a period of anticipation and preparation for the holiday. A traditional calendar is a cardboard house with small windows, each containing small gifts. Many mothers make their own advent calendar from scrap materials. It may consist of one or more types of items: pockets, boxes, bags or packages in which surprises are placed.

Types of Advent calendars:

Paper cones

The cones can be hung on a string with their nose down, placing small gifts or tasks inside them. You can place the caps on any surface accessible to the child, having previously hidden surprises in them.

Envelopes

If you want to put notes with wishes, tickets to a children's theater performance, or small gifts into an Advent calendar, then envelopes are a great solution. In them you can put a map to the place where the secret is hidden, or a task for which the child will receive a surprise from Santa Claus's assistants. In addition to paper, you can use fabric. Textile envelopes are more spacious, are better preserved and can serve your family for many years.

Advent cards

If there is very little time left before the New Year, or if mom has little creative potential, you can make Advent cards. They can describe a task, an event, or a secret place where a surprise for the baby is hidden.

Boxes

A great option for a waiting calendar are boxes of all shapes and sizes. They allow you to place gifts of different sizes in them. You can use either matchboxes or large gift boxes. They can be decorated to make fairy-tale houses or even a New Year's city. Use cotton wool or padding polyester instead of snow, populate it with magical inhabitants, and place a small Christmas tree.

Mittens or socks

Socks and mittens of different colors can also be the basis for an Advent calendar. Attach numbers to them, arrange the gifts and hang them on a long rope along the window, wall or fireplace.

Collection

Another way to make an advent calendar. The bundles can be attached to a pre-designed original base or to a cabinet shelf. Use bright clothespins and festive paper.

Paper bags

A simple and elementary way to create an Advent. Christmas themed bags, clothespins and base are all you need.

Jars, glasses, buckets

Any ordinary container, even paper cups, can be turned into a New Year's attribute with the help of decor. Then we fill them with pre-prepared surprises and cover them with a tissue paper lid.

Knitting and embroidery

Craftswomen who know how to sew or knit can create unusual Advent calendars with their own hands using ready-made sketches.

Historical background on advent calendars

The Latin word "adventus", from which the word "Advent" comes, means "advent, arrival." Catholics and Protestants use this word to refer to the time of waiting before Christmas. Fasting and various rituals and customs are dedicated to it.

The Advent period is the 4 weeks before Christmas from December 1st. The first day is the first of 4 Sundays. Each of the 4 Sundays has its own theme, reflected in the Gospel readings. Advent lasts 24 days and ends on Christmas Eve on December 24th.

One of the famous traditions of the Advent period is the Advent calendar. The first advent calendar for children with 24 colorful pictures attached to a cardboard base was created in Germany by Gerhard Lang. Later, the calendar was improved by providing it with small doors behind which sweets or fragments of Scripture were hidden.

In our country, waiting calendars became known recently. Analogues of advent calendars in Russia contain a number of cells equal to not 24, but 31 days. The design uses both Western Christmas characters and our dear Christmas tree, Father Frost and Snow Maiden.

Benefits of using a waiting calendar

Moms who are passionate about their children's early development use the time before the New Year to engage in age-appropriate activities. With the help of New Year's attributes, including the advent calendar, the child learns new things and phenomena.

A great idea is to learn the letters of the Russian alphabet for the New Year in a month. Every day you can teach your child the letter in a playful way. Use your imagination - letters on a magnet, letters-stickers, letters drawn or made from salt dough that can be hung on a Christmas tree, found in the alphabet.

Exploring and understanding time is another useful idea for little ones who can only measure time in sweets, little surprises or wonderful bedtime stories. If your little one constantly asks: “How many times do you need to sleep to go to grandma?”, “How many times do you need to have breakfast for the New Year to come?” Have no doubt, the New Year's calendar will help your child structure and fill the waiting time, learn to understand and realize it.

You can add one day to the New Year's calendar when your baby will not receive a surprise, but give it. Let him choose one of his toys, or buy a book together at the store. Then donate these items to charity, a children's hospital or orphanage. You can bake cookies or a pie with your child, and then take the sweets to a nursing home. This event will instill in the child a sense of compassion, responsiveness and create a unique atmosphere of goodness and magic.

Children's Advent Calendar Duration

A New Year's calendar for children does not have to be made for a full month. For small children who are not yet very patient, you can make an Advent calendar for one or two weeks. Even a couple of days before New Year's will allow you to create an atmosphere of miracles in your home, without tiring your little one with anticipation. Choose the number of days based on your child's needs, interests, and age.

20 popular surprises and tasks for the Advent calendar

The traditional filling is sweets. It is better to put sweets and cookies in the calendar cell every morning so that the baby does not eat all the treats at once.
Small surprises: small toys, animal figurines, stickers, hair clips, puzzles, refrigerator magnets, model cars, soap bubbles, baby books, Christmas tree decorations, etc.
Collectible toys. During the waiting time, the child will be able to collect a whole collection.
Tickets for a New Year's performance, cinema or play.
Materials for children's creativity: blanks for New Year's decorations, pencils, notebooks, markers, puzzles, coloring books, depending on what your child is interested in. You can put unfinished crafts to complete them with your child.
Treasure search map. Big surprises are best offered in this exciting way, so that following the clues, children can find the hidden surprise. And the New Year itself can be spent in pirate style.
New Year's poems, songs, riddles or whole Christmas stories will become a memorable gift.
Daily plan of small tasks. This is how the child learns from what he has to see or learn today. This could be looking for a Christmas tree at the market, admiring the evening city, watching a New Year's cartoon.
The name or photo of the dish you plan to prepare today with your baby. A great idea is gingerbread, cupcakes or a delicious cake.
Prepare a letter for Santa Claus, which you can then put in the refrigerator.
Outdoor games: build a snowman on this day, go sledding down a hill, throw snowballs, build a snow cave, feed the birds, visit the winter forest.
Packing gifts for relatives.
Decorating the house with lanterns, snowflakes and garlands. You can draw frosty patterns on the window with toothpaste. It’s also better to decorate the Christmas tree together with your baby.
Learn with your child how to count to 31 or the Russian alphabet.
Make a New Year's collage of 31 missing parts.
Come up with a New Year's performance with the whole family or arrange a Christmas photo shoot.
Make a winter or Christmas themed sensory box.
Conduct developmental activities with ice. You can create icy colored ornaments and decorate your Christmas tree or trees in your yard with them.
Do a good deed with your child, help someone.
As a family, make a list of all the good things that happened in the past year and a list of plans and wishes for the coming year.

How to prepare an advent calendar with your own hands?

The content of the New Year's advent calendar depends on the gender and age of your child, and on the goals that you want to achieve together. Depending on your creative skills and hobbies, you can:

make your own Christmas decorations and toys from fabric;
make boxes or bags;
attach notes with feasible tasks to Christmas tree decorations;
make New Year-themed crafts;
knit special Christmas stockings;
come up with a board game with prizes.
prepare a small Christmas tree and decorate it every day with a new toy from the calendar cell.

You can use different materials - paper, cardboard, fabric, yarn, wood, etc. Calendars can be simple or complex, small or large. It all depends only on your capabilities, abilities and skills. And of course, the age of the children for whom it is intended.

It's a good idea to come up with a different name for each day: "day of wallowing in the snowdrifts", or "day of gingerbread", or "day of traveling snowflakes", etc. Prepare appropriate tasks for the advent calendar.

If you don’t have creative potential, or don’t have any time to prepare, you can visit a specialized online store and buy a ready-made calendar.

Be sure to capture all the moments associated with using the Advent calendar. This way you will preserve traditions in your family’s history that will be passed on from generation to generation.