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Holiday Craft: Advent Calendar Tins

November 20, 2014 by Kerri Jablonski 9 Comments

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You know that moment in the crafting world when the idea you had in your head works perfectly? You know how it NEVER happens. Well it did. I made it happen.

Last year my mom ordered the kids some pre-filled advent calendars off of Amazon. While they were a lot of fun, the parts were tiny and some days not so expensive. Plus, those suckers are not cheap.

When I went looking for similar calendars for this year, I was pretty underwhelmed at the selection. I decided to find a different solution so I wasn’t spending a ton of money every year.

I had recently picked up some magnetic spice tins from Fred Meyer and I got an idea. Why couldn’t I buy 24 of them and make an Advent calendar?

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Holiday Craft: Advent Calendar Tins

You’ll need:

24 magnetic spice tins
A cookie sheet large enough to hold them all
2″ print to edge labels (depends on how big your tins are) 24-48 depending on how you tackle the project

It’s actually pretty easy. The biggest challenge was making all the numbers. But even that wasn’t so bad. I downloaded the template for the labels from the Avery website and figured out the proportions for ONE label and made a template in PicMonkey.

Then I individually made each number label and uploaded it into my template. It was a little time consuming, but well worth it.

I printed out the labels and carefully put them on top of the clear window on my tins. they overlapped just a tiny bit because the window is concaved, but it’s not super noticeable.

After I printed out all of my numbers I started a new template and wrote out  activities for Christmas that the kids and I could do. This is everything from eating a candy cane, to having a picnic by the tree to putting out cookies for Santa! Super fun right?

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I put those labels on the inside of the tins, easy peasy.

I figured on some days, in addition to the activity, I’d put some candy or small toys for fun.

All 24 fit nicely on a cookie sheet. Now, I will say I need to figure out how to hang my cookie sheet since there is no hole in it (like a bunch of the others I have) so the tins may go on my refrigerator for now until I find a new sheet. The good news is? I no longer will be buying those crazy prefilled calendars!

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Here’s what you need to make your own Advent Calendar Tins:

Originally shared November 2013

Does your family have an Advent calendar?

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Christmas, holiday traditions, holidays

About Kerri Jablonski

Kerri Jablonski is a Seattle Mom Blogger. She lives with her 3 kids (2008, 2010, 2013), her husband and cats. Two of her children have Autism. Kerri enjoys cooking, travel, movies and spending time with her family.

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  1. Julie

    November 30, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    These look really great! I made a huge calendar out of felt a few years ago that I get so excited to bring out each year. It is so fun to have these kinds of traditions.

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  2. Tiffany (Fabulous Mom Blog)

    December 1, 2013 at 6:07 am

    Thanks! This looks like a fun thing to do with my two little ones.

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  3. Leila

    December 1, 2013 at 1:18 pm

    I love this idea! I think I’m going to stock up and start working on it this year to be finished by next year! I am sure it will take me that long! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Danielle

    December 1, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    So smart! Love this idea. We got the Lego advent calendar this year but may do this next year.

    Reply

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