VIDEO: Tinker advent calendars with children

Tinker advent calendars with children - elves from paper rolls

This one advent Calendar Doing handicrafts with children is certainly not only a lot of fun for the little ones when they make magical gnomes out of empty toilet paper rolls.

1. Prime the cotton balls with skin-colored acrylic paint, then let the painted balls dry well.
2. Now cut 24 slices with a diameter of 5 cm from stronger cardboard.
3. You paint the empty toilet paper rolls with different colors Colours or cover with colored paper.
4. Paint the cut-out discs in the same colors or cover them with colored paper in the same color.


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5. Each toilet paper roll thus has the right foot.
6. Then glue the finished roll to the matching coated or painted foot.
7. Now you can use the colorful paper rolls with different ones Utils decorate. Ribbons, trimmings, punched out felt particles, Stars or be scraps of wool. Here the children can let their imaginations run wild.
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8. When the cotton balls have dried well, you can give them a face. This is very easy with good felt-tip pens, so that children can also give their advent calendar pixies a face.
9. Then take leftover wool, cotton wool or colored raffia and put the hair on the head with all-purpose glue.
10. Finally, glue the finished numbers, made of gold paper from 1 to 24 to buy, onto the colorful body. However, you can also record the numbers from 1 to 24 with a pen.
11. You can now arrange the finished elves on the windowsill in a colorful mix. Small roots, stones, fir green or moss fit in between.
12. The gnomes are of course only filled shortly before the 1st. December.
13. So that the heads stay seated on the filled bodies, simply fix the head very lightly in two places with a little glue.

The advent calendar made from discarded socks

1. Throughout the year, collect all the children's socks that either no longer fit or the washing machine only gave away one.
2. Paint the clothespins made of natural wood with red or green acrylic paint.
3. The children especially love this work, all you have to do is provide a good drawing surface.
4. Write the numbers 1 to 24 on the dried clamps with black marker or stick on the punched-out numbers.
5. Now pull a matching colored cord through the hole in the clothespins.
6. A knot can be tied behind each bracket so that the brackets sit well.
7. At the ends of the leash, tie a loop so that you can hang the leash loosely.
8. Now you can fill the children's socks with small treats or gifts, tie them with a cord and attach them to the clothespins.

Making advent calendars with children is not only fun, but individual socks can also be used meaningfully.