73 Best DIY Advent Calendar Ideas For Christmas

Photo Advent Calendar

Create a personalised photo Advent calendar with 24 photos that reflect your family’s year. Hang them up to relive memories and celebrate the holiday season.

A Kiss A Day

Make a new Christmas tradition with a Hershey’s Kiss advent calendar. Decorate the kisses with yarn and a homemade topper, to hang up for fun countdown to Christmas.

Reverse Advent Calendar

This reverse advent calendar is a meaningful way to make the holiday season more special. Teach children about the importance of giving back to the local community.

Easy (and Gorgeous!) DIY Calendar

Gift a jigsaw. This is a simple and interesting way to gift a jigsaw and give a little activity for each day of Advent. Here’s how to make it for the best giftee experience.

Family Advent Ideas

Start a new holiday tradition with your family by doing one activity each day in December such as making Christmas cards or baking special cookies.

Printable Advent to Colour

Make the countdown to Christmas a memorable and exciting experience for kids with interactive advent calendar ideas, including printable activity cards.

100 Activities Calendar

Create a cute Advent countdown calendar with socks, ribbon, and mini clothespins, featuring 100 Christmas activities for the family to enjoy together.

LEGO Advent Calendar

Create a fun and festive holiday season with these 16 DIY LEGO advent calendar ideas, including Santa’s elf, Christmas bell, and gingerbread man.

Kids Christmas Countdown

This DIY advent calendar is a fun and affordable way to count down the days until Christmas. Fill each bag with small toys or treats such as hair bows.

Acts of Service

Consider doing random acts of kindness and service, such as leaving a sweet treat on a neighbour’s doorstep or sending a handwritten note to a friend. Find more ideas here.

Toilet Paper Tube Advent Calendar

Create an inexpensive DIY advent calendar using toilet paper rolls. Fill it with small gifts and decorate it with paint and numbers to make it look like a Christmas tree.

Family Time Ideas

This printable advent calendar includes 25 days of activities for young children, older kids, teens, and adults. Making it a fun way to count down to Christmas and spend quality time with family members.

Fun Advent Calendar You Can Make Yourself

Make your own personalised, homemade advent calendar with felt shapes. Add a special touch to each day’s piece to make it a meaningful family craft.

Book Advent Calendar

Create a new book Advent calendar by collecting and wrapping 25 Christmas books, labelling them with tags, and placing them in a basket for a special kind of advent calendar.

Magnetic Advent Calendar Wreath

This Advent calendar comes in wreath form, and is also magnetic – which makes it easy to store once Christmas is over. Children will love opening a new tin with special treats every day.

Advent Calendar to Colour

Try a free Advent calendar to colour, featuring 24 cute images of Christmas animals to colour each day until Christmas morning.

Fabric Advent Calendar

Fill this DIY fabric Advent calendar with whatever surprises work for your family: gift cards, activity ideas, quotes or scriptures, and even little toys. Find out how to make it.

Santa Advent Calendar

One of the best family activities is this great idea to countdown the 25 days to Christmas with Santa’s beard. Use cotton balls to add to the picture until the big day.  

Preschool Christmas Countdown

These Preschool Christmas craft ideas are filled with lots of craft inspiration for toddlers and preschoolers.

Book Christmas Tree

Create a fun and unique book advent calendar by wrapping 25 books in green and red wrapping paper, using command hanging strips to hang them on the wall.

12 Day DIY Advent Calendar

This Christmas countdown features 12 cups full of candy that kids can break each day as Christmas gets closer. Or turn it into a chocolate advent calendar as another great option.

Snowman Countdown Printable

Matching the cotton balls to the pre-drawn circles on the printable is a good idea for working on fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination for children.

DIY Acts of Kindness

This random acts of kindness Advent calendar, features 30 cards with creative ideas for small acts of kindness and gift-giving, perfect for families with kids of all ages.

Printable Advent Calendar For Kids 

Create a fun and engaging Christmas advent calendar for your kids by printing out a free printable template and colouring a new Christmas ornament each day.

Printable Advent Calendars

This bundle has activity cards for Bible readings, acts of kindness, as well as blank cards for customisation. Enjoy a meaningful family tradition with a no-fuss calendar.

Advent Calendar Felt Craft

Create a fun and non-candy DIY Advent calendar with felt ornaments and a Christmas tree, perfect for a family tradition or gift idea, with easy no-sew assembly.

Wooden Advent Calendars

This DIY advent calendar, made from leftover wood and decorated with vinyl numbers and a wreath, is perfect for counting down the days until Christmas.

DIY Advent Calendar (from muffin tin)

Create an interactive and fun advent calendar for your family this holiday season with upcycled materials and kindness-themed activities, all for under $9.

Foraged DIY Advent Wreath

Learn how to make a beautiful foraged DIY Advent wreath using upcycled plates, baking soda, and copper fittings, to celebrate the countdown until Christmas Day.

Reusable Christmas Advent Calendar

This reusable advent calendar uses simple crafting supplies like card stock, foam board, and hot glue, while also including a tutorial for assembling and decorating the pockets.

Wooden Adult Advent Calendar

Create a unique advent calendar for adults by cutting out a Christmas tree shape from plywood. Then drill and decorate with 25 bottle caps for each day of the Advent season.

Calendar with Paper Houses

This free printable advent calendar lets you feature cosy Christmas scenes, or use it as a photo advent calendar to display favourite Christmas memories.

Calendar with Paper Houses

Create a stress-free DIY advent calendar with paper houses and a wooden shelf, perfect for small gifts and fun activities for the whole family to enjoy.

DIY Advent Calendar That Makes a Statement

A beautiful DIY advent calendar using a large canvas, paper mache boxes, and various craft supplies such as paint, scrapbook paper, and embellishments like buttons.

Printable Advent Calendar Village

This festive Dutch-themed advent calendar village with paper gingerbread houses, includes a free printable template for all 25 houses.

Printable Advent Calendar for Kids

This printable template makes it easy to create a Santa Beard calendar that will keep your kids excited for the holiday season.

Fun Advent Calendar Activities

Create a fun and memorable holiday season with activity-based advent calendars that cater to all ages, featuring a mix of traditional and new fun ideas.

Calendar with Ribbon and Burlap

Have so much fun DIYing your own advent calendar with ribbons and buttons, marking the days until Christmas with a fun and meaningful activity for the whole family.

Chicken Wire Advent Calendar Wreath

This chicken wire Advent calendar wreath has little envelopes that you can pick off. Plus they share a strategy for when multiple children use the same calendar.

DIY Reusable Advent Calendar

Here’s how to make your own DIY advent calendar with small gifts, hot chocolate, and sweet treats for a fun and memorable way to celebrate the Christmas season.

Easy Advent Wreath Craft

Create an Advent wreath craft for Christmas using a metal bundt pan and floral foam blocks. With step-by-step instructions to assemble and display the wreath.

Wood Snowman Advent Calendar

This fun wooden snowman advent calendar features a cute snowman face and removable nose that reveals a special surprise each day.

DIY Advent Calendar

This DIY advent calendar with small white paper bags, printable numbers, and festive ribbon can be filled with little activities or small gifts for a fun holiday season.

Christmas Countdown

Make this easy Advent calendar with mini brown bags, hot glue, and magnets. Incorporate ideas such as reading Christmas stories and making hot chocolate.

Wall Mounted Advent Calendar

This DIY wall-mounted advent calendar filled with small gifts and treats, using wooden boards, nails, and a star as the centerpiece.

Washboard Decor

Create a unique calendar using upcycled materials like washboards, and add personalised touches like handmade origami shirts.

Tiered Wooden Houses

This wooden house advent calendar is an impressive creation filled with Christmas lights and treats. Check out the step-by-step directions and materials list.

Advent Calendar Ladder

Use a vintage ladder and decorated muslin bags, with ideas for little gifts or treats to fill each bag.

Kraft Paper Gingerbread Man Advent Calendar

The guide includes step-by-step instructions for making 48 gingerbread men with a cookie cutter. Hang them on a door or wall using bakers’ twine and craft pegs.

Advent Calendar Using Tin Cans

This Christmas countdown calendar is made using upcycled tin cans. It works for a rustic look that fits well with a farmhouse or industrial vibe. Fill it with daily treats and cheesy Christmas jokes.

Advent Calendar from Fabric Scraps

Create your own upcycled advent calendar using fabric scraps, trims, and buttons, with a wooden dowel and hot glue, to make an ornate calendar with a vintage feel.

Vintage Christmas Countdown Board

Make this Christmas countdown board using old ornaments, books, scrap paper, and materials, with a colourful vintage look.

DIY Kids Advent Calendar

Make a fun and memorable DIY kids Advent calendar using a pizza pan, construction paper, hot glue, and magnets. This activity can be used yearly.

Wooden DIY Advent Calendar

Learn how to build a classic, wooden DIY advent calendar with 25 cubbies, using materials like cedar wood, plywood, and featuring a stained and painted design.

Advent Calendar for Couples

Make a relaxing advent calendar for couples with 24 small activities to do together during the month of December, with customisable gift tags to fit your interests.

Easy Christmas Countdown

Create a quick and easy Christmas Advent calendar in 30 minutes, using supplies you already have on hand. Include service activities and family-oriented activity ideas.

Little House Advent Calendar

Make adorable paper houses to fill with treats out of paper, card or even an old book. Simply cut them out and fold and glue them together. 

Story Book Advent Calendar

Wrap up 24 Christmas story books, and let your children pick a new one each to read together at bedtime.

Modern Advent Calendar

This modern Christmas tree advent calendar shows you just how to connect with your family with twenty-five activity ideas during one of the busiest times of the year.

Book Advent Calendar 

Every day starting on December 1st, unwrap and read one Christmas book together as a family. The excitement will build as you countdown the days til Christmas.

Farmhouse Advent Calendar

This farmhouse advent calendar fits right in with the rustic style and it is simple to create. You’re going to love this easy Christmas wooden advent calendar idea.

Boho Advent Calendar

This simple tutorial create one of the most beautiful handmade advent calendars. Just make a yarn tassel wall hanging, which is easy to create, for your own boho advent calendar.