25-day Countdown Calendar Gift Guide
Christmas season is just around the corner! The advent calendar has always been a favored part of the holidays for me. There is something exciting about counting down the days until Christmas, and it’s nice to have a physical representation.
Advent Calendar Ideas
Advent calendars coms in all shapes, sizes, themes, and styles. They can be a true calendar with marking pens where you put an “X” on each day that passes until Christmas. There is also the child-crafted, construction paper chain-link that is opened each day. Once opened they usually have a hand-written scripture or nice message to brighten your holiday wait until Christmas Day. Or, the tasty chocolate-filled advent calendar, where each member of the family takes a turn on opening and then fights over the one single piece of chocolate.
I’ve decided to change the advent calendar up this year and offer another tradition, but I will get to that in a minute. Though there are many of you who still prefer a classic advent calendar, I have developed a gift-guide for advent calendar buying. These are geared for myriad personalities or for those of you who might enjoy a 24-day diversion from the quintessential chocolate advent calendar.
The perfect advent calendar for a person with all the ideas. Stuffing small trinkets and jewels in this advent calendar puts you in the driver seat for gift giving.
Simply adorable and perfect for the tiny dancer or charm bracelet lover.
If you love makeup, this beauty sample calendar will give you some great new options or ideas.
A sweet calendar that takes a peek into a beautiful town-home with 24 windows. You can fill the pockets with candy or little notes and count-down the days with a “Santa” marker.
The wine lover will not go without this holiday season with the advent wine calendar from Costco.
A calendar with both chocolate and gummy treats by Sugarfina can never be a bad idea.
If you take a bath daily, you will want to enjoy these amazing bath bombs each night leading up to Christmas day.
Jams and Jelly’s make for some of the best additions during the holidays to breads, pastries and cookies.
If you can’t see the Nutcracker ballet this winter, why not set up your own ballet scene.
Bake during the holidays? You will want the advent calendar that contains all the sprinkles and sparkles to go on top!
New Traditions
And now for a new tradition our family will be partaking in this year. My husband was interviewing a client for a film-piece he was creating. They were talking about Christmas traditions and this one was an absolute keeper! We have a lot of readers in this family and all three kids are very drawn to the idea of gathering around the fireplace and Christmas tree. This year as we countdown Christmas we will be unwrapping a holiday book each day to be read as a family in front of the fireplace, in our living room. There may even be some hot cocoa with whipped cream involved, but I absolutely loved hearing about this tradition and idea. The best part is that the books can actually be kept and recycled for the next year. The children will get to unwrap a gift each day which is always a JOY during the holidays. And, reading together is a fabulous family activity.
Whatever option you choose this year, I hope you find the right plan for your family as we all anticipate Christmas Day. And who knows, maybe you’ll start a new family tradition as well.