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Christmas Resources – History Of The Advent Calendar

XMaspirit — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:38 +0000

The origin of the Advent calendar can be traced back to the 19th Century. Advent calendars as we know them today went through many versions until the paper calendars filled with chocolates of today. Learn the history of the early Advent calendars to modern day Advent calendars.

Christmas Resources – History Of The Advent Calendar

Christmas Resources – Advent Calendar Museum

XMaspirit — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:00:58 +0000

Visit this online Advent calendar museum and you will see a number of colorful unique designs and styles of historic Advent calendars from a variety of countries. The Advent calendars are shown in a Flash movie, click on the arrows in the navigation to go to more Advent calendars.

Christmas Resources – Advent Calendar Museum

Christmas Resources – Wikipedia History of Advent Calendars

XMaspirit — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:00:29 +0000

Wikipedia has a history of the advent calendar, including the origins of the original advent calendar and information on modern advent calendars. The article features information on unusual versions of advent calendars including Scandinavian towns that have television show based on advent calendars starting December 1st and a German town that paints scenes at houses creating a giant advent calendar.

Wikipedia History of Advent Calendars

Christmas Resources – Children’s Santa Beard Advent Calender

XMaspirit — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:00:01 +0000

This cute Santa Beard advent calendar is an easy to make craft project you can work on with your children. Instructions as well as a list of supplies is provided. Print out the PDF pattern and get started.

Children’s Santa Beard Advent Calender

Christmas Resources – DIY Family Advent Calendar Ideas

XMaspirit — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:00:18 +0000

Suite 101 has an article about creating your own family Advent calendar for the Christmas season. Ideas include making an Advent calendar from poster board, hanging paper take-out food boxes with treats inside on the Christmas tree as an Advent calendar and a cloth version of an Advent calendar. You can get take-out boxes at some party and craft stores so keep this in mind for this activity. These ideas are especially good when parents and children participate together to make their own seasonal calendar.

DIY Family Advent Calendar Ideas

Christmas Resources – Dionaea’s Interactive Advent Calendar

XMaspirit — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:00:36 +0000

This is an interactive Advent calendar using a Grinch like character sitting at the bottom of a fireplace surrounded by presents. Clicking on the presents earlier than December gets you scolding messages. Check out this interactive Advent calender starting December 1st.

Dionaea’s Interactive Online Advent Calendar

Christmas Resources – Christmas and Santa Claus Directory

XMaspirit — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:00:20 +0000

The Christmas and Santa Claus directory has all sorts of Christmas goodies for you to check into including online advent calendars, Christmas around the world, printable coloring pages, Christmas software, Christmas clip art, Christmas traditions, Christmas crafts and much more.

Christmas and Santa Claus Directory