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Advent calendar ideas for children

Ideas for filling Advent calendars for children

Here are our gift ideas for your homemade Advent calendars for children:

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Our Advent calendar ideas especially for toddlers:

·       Bathtub animals (yellow rubber duck, boat, etc.)
·       Cuddly animals, little cloth animals
·       Wooden puzzles / puzzles for toddlers
·       Sandbox toys / Bath toys
·       Coloring book
·       Pixi books
·       Other little books, e.g. Roger Hargreaves’ “Mr. Men and Little Miss” series
·       Kinder chocolate
·       Little window decorations
·       Playmobil 1.2.3
·       Lego Duplo sets
·       Hello Kitty (starter set)
·       Building blocks
·       Wooden fruit and vegetables
·       Bubbles
·       Animal figures 
·       View master
·       Play Dough
·       Kaleidoscope
·       Clay
·       Fimo
·       Tinti bath accessories
·       Accessories for a play shop or kitchen
·       A story or a book from which a chapter can be read aloud each day (also 
        see „Books and stories“)

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Since all children like to play, here are our ideas for calendar fillings:


·       Puzzles and brain teasers
·       Lego sets (small package / accessories)
·       Fischer Price sets (small package / accessories)
·       Playmobil (small package / accessories)
·       Quartet card game (also known as Happy Families)
·       Card games, e.g. Uno
·       Memory
·       Dominos
·       Travel games (Bingo, Yatzee, Boggle, Scattergories etc)
·       Directions for magic tricks, magic trick accessories
·       Tops
·       Silly Putty
·       Yo-yos
·       Pocket kites
·       Squirt guns, water balloons, Splash Bombs
·       Frisbees
·       Little ball
·       Marbles
·       Poppers (a type of bouncing half-sphere which you turn inside out, set on   
        the floor and watch it pop)
·       Clicking frog
·       Paper sword (Coiled paper streamers wound around a handle)



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For all enthusiastic crafters, here are some ideas for Advent calendar gifts:

·       Craft kits (e.g. to make friendship bracelets, kites, mosaics, Shrinky 
        Dinks)
·       Beads, jewelry-making materials
·       Small puzzles
·       Puzzles, perhaps with different parts spread out over multiple days, e.g.  
        made with your own photo
·       Finger paints
·       Little pictures to paint and hang in the window
·       Outdoor chalk
·       Crayons
·       Clay
·       Nice pens, pencils or erasers (Pens, markers, colored pencils, etc.)
·       Little notebooks
·       Directions for making a paper airplane, or other origami shapes
·       Watercolors, also available individually
·       Glass paint for windows
·       Finger paints
·       Stamps
·       Colored pencils
·       Little coloring books
·       Markers
·       Sharpener



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The following gift ideas for your Advent calendars are especially suited to girls:

·       Earrings
·       Hair ties
·       Barrettes
·       Skipping rope
·       Coin purse
·       Make-up
·       Nail polish, nail decals / gems
·       Hair decorations
·       Necklaces
·       Bracelets
·       Charm bracelets
·       Rings
·       Finger rings
·       My Little Pony figures
·       Hello Kitty accessories
·       Costume accessories

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And here are our Advent calendar ideas for boys:

·       Car-shaped balloon
·       Toy cars
·       Pull back car
·       Star Wars (Stickers, figures, notebooks, etc.)
·       Little pocket knife
·       Little pirate flag, eye patch, etc.
·       Model airplanes, rockets, etc.
·       Trading cards



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If your children are little explorers or discoverers, here are some suggestions they might like:

·       Garden cress seeds
·       Bird feeders (or other kinds of birdseed)
·       Brine shrimp (one can breed them in a glass)
·       Ant farm
·       Butterfly net, bug habitat
·       Magnifying cup, play binoculars
·       Invisible ink pen
·       Little flashlight
·       Magnets
·       Chemistry set / science kits
·       Book of simple science experiments
·       Children’s telescope, constellation maps


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Gift certificates to put in children’s Advent calendars:


·       Movie theater tickets for children’s films
·       Baking cakes / cookies together
·       Tickets for a children’s theater production
·       Gift certificates for a special outing together, e.g. boat ride, amusement 
        park, zoo
·       Gift certificates for eating out at McDonalds / Burger King / ice cream 
        parlor
·       Homemade tickets for a movie night (at home)
·       One hour of play on the iPad / Xbox / new game etc.


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Or perhaps a gift that is also practical? Here are our ideas for children:

·       Reflectors for bikes, school backpacks, jackets etc.
·       Bells for a scooter, training bike or bicycle
·       Bike gloves
·       Knee and elbow pads
·       Sharpener
·       Children’s toothbrush
·       Ruler, geodesic triangle
·       Personalized labels

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Something sweet belongs in every child’s Advent calendar

·       Candy canes
·       Lolly pops
·       Fun Dip / Pop Rocks
·       Reese's
·       Chocolate Santa Claus
·       Mini Nutella
·       Mini honey
·       Christmas cookies (homemade?)
·       Miniature candy bars
·       Gummi bears
·       Sour Gummi worms
·       Jelly Belly jelly beans
·       Licorice
·       Candy jewelry, Ring Pops
·       Bubble gum
·       Roasted almonds
·       Gingerbread heart / gingerbread man
·       Popcorn (perhaps popcorn kernels to prepare yourself?)
·       Pudding package to make yourself
·       Jello to make yourself
·       Gold chocolate coins
·       Small pack of raisins
·       Trail mix
·       Rice crackers



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You could give a whole book on one day (e.g. on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve), or one could spread the stories out over multiple days (copies).

·       Charles Dickens, „A Christmas Carol“ (text available for free online, for 
        example on Amazon Kindle)
·       Chris van Allsburg, “The Polar Express”
·       Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
·       Charles M. Schultz, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
·       L. Frank Baum, “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”
·       Robert E. Barry, “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree”
·       Cornelia Funke, "When Santa Fell to Earth“
·       Astrid Lindgren, "Christmas in the Stable”
·       Astrid Lindgren "Christmas in Bullerby"
·       Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Match Girl”
·       Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram, "Guess how much I love you"
·       Jan Brett, “The Mitten”
·       Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
·       Other stories to read aloud
·       Write your own story, include a sequel each day

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Here are some more Advent calendar ideas for kids:

·       Giant balloons
·       Pictures from a family vacation
·       Bubbles
·       Band-Aids with fun pictures
·       Temporary tattoos
·       Cap bombs
·       Stickers
·       Flip books (you can also make them yourself)
·       Bouncy balls
·       Sparklers
·       Glow-in-the-dark stars for the bedroom ceiling
·       Stones (quartz etc.)
·       Cookie cutters (car, princess, etc.)
·       Snow globe
·       Little glider (available for €1 in toy or craft stores)
·       Mini towel that expands in water (magic towels)
·       Travel kites
·       Little parachutist (figure with a small parachute)
·       Rose of Jericho
·       Comics (Lucky Luke, Donald Duck, Popeye, Yakari, Asterix etc.)
·       Children’s magazines
·       Stress ball (you can also make them yourself with a balloon and sand)
·       Music box
·       Animal figures, Smurfs or other figurines
·       Cartesian devil (also called a water devil)
·       Little packet of nuts
·       Little packet of granola

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Would you like more ideas? In our other categories you can find ideas for adults, men and women:

IDeas Advent Calendar Men
IDEas Advent Calendar Women
Ideas Advent Calendar Adults

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