Four cheap ways to make reusable DIY advent calendar for the kids and save cash

EXCITED children volition commencement counting down to Christmas this weekend.

Advent calendars person go ever much elaborate and costly successful caller years.

But you tin prevention immoderate currency and discarded with a reusable DIY mentation for your small ones . . . 

AB FABRIC: Buy a cloth advent calendar that tin beryllium refilled twelvemonth aft twelvemonth with gifts of your choosing.

It’s a large mode to premix up gifts for children if you don’t privation them eating cocoa and sweetener each day.

Hobbycraft sells a cloth stocking advent calendar, present connected merchantability astatine £5, which besides doubles arsenic a fab festive decoration.

Or determination is simply a woody histrion advent peg garland which tin beryllium utilized to bent tiny stockings oregon adjacent envelopes with treats.

SWEET TREATS: To capable calendars, you tin bargain ample bags of sharing sweets specified arsenic Maoam for £1.25 from Poundland.

Or look for bags of individually wrapped sweets specified arsenic Chooee Cheery Fruttys, £1, from the store.

Aldi sells bags of mini cocoa Christmas puddings oregon sprouts, 95p each.

Or determination are packs of mini cocoa bears and snowmen, each containing 25, for £3.29 from the supermarket.

TOY JOY: Bypass the sweets for a 50-piece bucket of dinosaurs — £10 from Sainsbury’s — perfect if you person 2 DIY advent calendars to make.

A 25-piece battalion of cars and trucks is besides disposable connected Amazon for £10.62.

Or caput to your section foundation store and find artifact bundles to capable antithetic doors.

Many volition radical tiny toys into affordable bundles.

GET CRAFTY: If you’re feeling creative, you could marque tiny gifts to spell successful the calendar, specified arsenic brackish dough decorations oregon shapes that tin beryllium painted.

Just premix 250g of plain flour with 125g of brackish and 125ml of h2o until it forms a dough.

Bake for 3 hours astatine 50C until it becomes hard.

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