45 Kids Advent Calendars Contents Ideas. This week I am planning to put the kid’s advent calendars together and I have been trying to come up with content ideas. Both kids have wooden ones which we brought from Fortum and Mason. Considering they will have them until they leave home they are not badly priced. I’m also secretly hoping they will be passed on at some point. As Kipper is only six months old I was initially thinking of just putting in his advent activities. I am sure that Monkey will love to open the calendar for him. So it would be more interesting for him to have some other than little pieces of card. For this reason, I am also thinking about adding building blocks in.
For Monkey he will also have his own advent activities although they are tailored to the fact that his four. Last year he had matchbox cars, the year before little fish counters and the year before that duplo. Traditionally I have selected one thing and got 24 of that thing along with some chocolate. Thinking about it I may have missed a trick. As Monkey is older this year I am planning on putting something different in each door. It will be more work to get it all but I am thinking he will enjoy the surprise so much more. If it works then I will be collecting throughout the year next time round as I will be back at work! I have been doing some brainstorming to try and think of things which could be added (for boys and girls).
45 Kids Advent Calendars Contents Ideas
- Marbles
- Stickers
- Loom Bands
- Matchbox Cars
- Duplo or Lego
- Lego characters or people
- Counters – such as counting fish
- Collectables and Blind Bags – such as shopkins
- Christmas Advent Activity Cards
- Treasure hunt clues – to find a prize or a Christmas Eve Box hidden in the house somewhere
- Christmas decorations
- Toy soldiers or figurines
- Building Blocks
- Story Stones
- Movie Tokens – for a specific Christmas movie or something they love
- Threading beads or craft beads for jewellery making
- Dress up accessories
- Key Rings
- Small craft items
- Seeds
- Alphabet Letters
- Magnets
- Pocket money toys or party bag toys
- Scratch cards
- Rubbers
- Hair accessories
- Mini plastic animals
- Badges
- Lip Balms
- Photos
- Charms for a bracelet
- ‘I owe you’ vouchers
- Temporary Tattoos
- Money or coins
- Fun craft stamps or mini punches
- Bubbles
- Finger Puppets
- Glow in the dark stars for the ceiling
- Mini plastic dinosaurs or bugs
- Jigsaw pieces
- Homemade playdough
- Chocolate Coins
- Crayons
- Nativity counters to tell the nativity story
- Baby Bonding Tokens
I have also made a printable version, in case you want to take it shopping with you, which is what I will probably do. Since my post-baby brain still needs a bit of help!
What do you put in your kids advent calendars? I would love to hear in the comments below.
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45 Kids Advent Calendars Contents Ideas
26 Responses
I love your ideas. Loads there that I would not have thought of. Love the IOU idea. Thank you.
You saviour – I’ve got the most beautiful advent calendar for Josh but had no idea what to fill it with. You’ve saved the day! Thank you so much for this post xx #BloggerClubUK
Wow so many great ideas. We were doing chocolate and hair accessories but now wondering about adding some Christmas story stones. We are making a set of story stones for Christmas so a few christmas themed ones might be a nice introduction to them.
There are some great ideas here. I would put hair accessories and jewllery in my girls one if I did it. I may do this in a couple of years but I think they are too young at the moment. I couldn’t put marbles in for example and due to their size they are perfect.
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Oooh lots of ideas on here that I’ve not thought of before! I afraid I’ve never been organised enough to think about doing a “fill your own” calendar and we’ve always just used the shop-bought chocolate ones (and usually end up forgetting to buy one until 3rd or 4th Dec too and then we have to eat a load to catch up!). Maybe next year… #BloggerClubUK
So many great ideas there. Was just having a conversation about this with a friend recently and we thought of about a fifth of what you’ve suggested! Will be sharing! #UKBloggerClub
I love the idea of homemade advent calendars, growing up my mum always did this for me and my sister, sometimes it would be little toys, more often than not it was sweets and chocolate though! #BloggerClubUK
I am sure this list will help a lot of people 🙂 Great ideas. We never did anything like this when my kids were little. Alison x #BloggerClubUK
This list is brilliant. I have a wooden advent calendar to fill up and I’m running out of ideas this year x
I’ve seen a few posts now of people doing their own advent calenders for their kids. Do you make it from scratch or just buy empty ones and fill yourself? If making from scratch that seems a little too much hard work for me and I think I’d rather just stick to the chocolate ready made kind lol but if you can buy ones you fill yourself I think I could get on board with that. You’ve listed some really really great ideas here.
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Great idea! I want to get L a wooden calendar! ☺️ #BloggerClubUK
There are some really good ideas here, I cannot wait til Ben gets older to try these out! #bloggerclubUK
I LOVE this idea! I haven’t heard of it before. I’ll definately be doing this when my daughter is older. Please post it again next year to remind me ???? #SharingTheBlogLove
This is just what I needed, I only have 5 doors filled so far!! #BloggerClubUK
Even though they are Teens my kids still love the advent calendar tradition. I bought one with drawers when they were little and have always filled it with different things through the years. It is getting tougher now that they are older but stationery, coins and sample sized toiletries are failsafes. #bloggerclubuk
Inspirational ideas! Makes a nice change to chocolate filled advent calendars 🙂 xx #BloggerClubUk
I’ve never done this but is something I’d consider definitely. Last year little one was bought one of the Playmobil ones and I hated it. I was finding those tiny toys everywhere for months after!! Great ideas. #bloggerclubuk
Fantastic ideas and exactly what I needed as I bought my son a DIY advent calender this year. I love the thought of a Christmas eve treasure hunt too. #BloggerClubUK
Great ideas! I like the idea of using little gifts instead of chocolate as I do try and avoid my 2year old having too much sugar. I’ve gone for the HappyLand calendar this year and I’m doing a book calendar as well. #BloggerClubUK
You have really created an amazing list. You children will really enjoy their time with you.
This is such a fab list of items! I’m going to pin it and show it to my sister when I visit her this weekend as her little 3 year old will love some of these. #BloggerclubUK
I like the idea of getting pieces of a whole that goes together each day! It’d be exciting & also would keep the cost down. My boys love Match Attax cards, that’d be a cool advent treat to do too! #bloggerclubuk
This sounds a lovely idea. Thanks for sharing what you plan to do. #bloggerclubuk
Some great ideas! My boys would love cars and lego in theirs. My daughter would love hairclips and crayons! #BloggerClubUK
I love the idea of having activity advent calendars. As kids we had a fabric advent calendar which my mum stocked with different chocolate. It made it much more fun that the shop bought verity so I can imagine how fun kids must find it with activities thrown in too! #bloggerclubuk
I’m thinking to do this for myself this year and have been busy making 25 fabric advent calendar stockings. I looked on Amazon for items to put in each day. I then had a brilliant idea of making my own fillers! I have decided to add a quote for the day, something I have to do (e.g. go on a walk), and a small crafts kit being if that was Xmas related or not but just instructions and what I need. I can’t wait until December now! I hope this helps others.