I’m so excited for the holidays! There is always something magical about this time of year. I love to decorate my home for the holidays. This year we have been doing a lot of new and exciting holiday traditions. We started with elf on the shelf as well as gnome in my home. I’ve even started doing the advent calendars. I remember the ones that you could buy in stores that would have chocolates in them. I had those as a child each holiday. I bought some of them for my daughters this year as well. Although those are fun, I wanted to make my own advent calendar this year.
I decided to make this Christmas tree DIY Advent Calendar for my daughters.
First you’re going to want to start off with a piece of cardboard. Make sure it’s big enough to make the tree. It has to be long enough both ways. Once you have your cardboard, you can hot glue your bow on top. Make sure to leave enough room for the tree part.
Now you can start filling up your cups with items you want to use. My daughters love all small toys like Shopkins, so that’s what I decided to put inside the cups. I use Dixie cups because they work out great.
Once you have all the cups filled, you’re going to want to grab some tissue paper and the cups.
You want to wrap the tissue paper around the cups.
Next you want to take a rubberband and place it around the tissue paper and cup.
After doing that, you’re going to start using the hot glue for the bottom of the cups. You want to start forming the tree. Once you hot glue them, you want to immediately put them on the cardboard to form the tree.
You can continue to hot glue til you completely finish the tree. It should look similar to the photo above.
After you’re finished with that, decorate it the way you want it. I added the numbers in on each of the cups. You can always decorate it with all kinds of things. Get creative! It’s such a fun and simple way to make an advent calendar.
Have you ever made an Advent Calendar before?
That is super cute! I love the idea of making a homemade advent calendar. It keeps the feeling personal instead of just being another thing we buy at the store.
Yes, exactly! It’s a lot of fun making them yourself too.
This turned out really cute! I’d love to put together a fun advent calendar like this!
Thanks! It was fun to make too.
I have never mde an Advent Tree. I think this is a really cute idea though. My girls/boy would love a little Shopkin or candy.
Yes, mine too! I put in all kinds of little toys. They sure love all those little toys.
We made something similar to this for a birthday party one time. It’s a blast and I love the idea of making it an advent calendar!
They are very fun to make!
Now THAT is a super cute idea! I think I’ll do a calendar this year just to try this out!
Right! They’re a lot of fun, especially for the kids.
This is such an easy and unique way to do an advent calendar. It’s right up my alley, that’s for sure!
Yes, certainly!
I forgot to pick up an advent calendar at the store this year! Love this idea for making your own!
I love making them myself. Seems to be cheaper this way too.
This is such a cute idea for helping kids to count the days down for Christmas. It’s nice that you can make it yourself and personalize the items inside.
Yes, definitely! My girls love ways like this to count down the days.
See now the I could actually do! We looked at some today and they were so expensive!!
Right! I couldn’t believe the prices on some of them.
Awesome inexpensive, but fun idea I’m totally borrowing this for our weekend activities.
Yes, lots of fun to make too.
Aww, this is so cute! What a creative idea. We just bought the ones with chocolate but I like this one so much better.
I bought those as well as made this one.
We’ve never tried doing an advent calendar but I like to start one. This is so cute! Looks so fun to do.
This was my first year making one as well as having them for my girls. They love it!
It is such a cute idea to DIY and make your own advent calendar. Super cute idea. I am going to have to try doing this!
Yes, it’s a lot of fun making them yourself.
I love this advent calendar. I am going to have to try and make this with my kids for sure! What a cute idea.
My kids are loving it so far too!
It is such a neat idea to make your own advent calendar, I love that you can personalize them so much!
Right! It was a ton of fun making it too.
What a cute idea! I like how the cups allow you to fit in different size items. It would be fun to make this and customize it for my kids.
Yes, lots can fit in here. You can always buy bigger cups if you want to put bigger items in them too.
I love this, I always bought the silly candy one’s. This is so much more personal, I need to throw one together quickly tomorrow.
I bought some of the candy ones as well, but made this one too.
I have made advent calendars past two years but I skipped it this year. Will save the idea of your holiday tree calendar for the next year! Yummy!
Great to hear! They are a ton of fun to make.
Such a cute idea! My kids would really get into the advent calendar thing with this!
This was the first year for my girls and they’re loving it.
I use to love opening advent calendars every year. We haven’t done one in a couple years. Even though I may be a couple days behind, I think we’ll have to make one of these.
Me too! They’re so much fun to open.
This lookalike a great DIY advent calendar! If I had kids I would totally be making this for them!
Yes, it was a lot of fun making it too.
This is such a cute DIY project for Christmas. I bet it is so much fun to open up each day!
Yes, my girls are having a lot of fun seeing what’s inside.
This is a cute idea for kids. My son got an advent calendar from our church. He gets to get a small piece of candy when he opens each day leading up to Christmas day.
My girls have the ones with chocolates in them too. I think the ones that you can make are so much fun.
How creative! Love it! I always buy an Advent Calendar from the store. I may have to try making our own next year. We’ll see. 🙂
I buy the ones with chocolate, but I made this one as well.
I love Advent calendars. This is such a fun idea for one. I’ll have to give it a try.
Me too. Making them is a lot of fun too.