Our version of the Advent calendar here is in the shape of a small cabinet. Tiny gifts, messages or treats can be numbered with labels for each day of December. On each day your doll may open a package or letter leading up to the last day before Christmas, December 24th. On December 25th the Dolls would open gifts under their tree. I'll include a listing below of ideas that you might like to include inside your own version of this Advent Calendar.
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| Finished cabinet version of an Advent Calendar for dolls. |
Supply List:
- wooden cut-out
- two bottle brush trees
- cardboard
- white school glue
- decorative paper
- Mod Podge
- acrylic paints: red, green or white
- box approx. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2"
- masking tape
We acquired first a small box to build our tiny openings inside. Any box will due for this as long as it's sturdy and approximately the right size for a doll measuring 18" tall. The sample show here is 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Use scrap, cut lengths of cardboard to divide the interior box space into 24 smaller spaces. I taped and glued these shelves into place. Then I painted the interior shelves with red acrylic paint.
Decoupage the outside walls of the Advent calendar with decorative paper. I used a scrapbook paper with retro looking Christmas packages for our doll's calendar cabinet.
I then cut and pasted a balsam wood cut-out of a moose moving through a forest to the top of the calendar and pasted a bottle brush tree at each side of this silhouette display. If you haven't a woodcut on hand, you can cut a silhouette from heavy paper to decorate the top of your doll's cabinet alternatively.
- Paper cutting for silhouettes from Thrifty Scissors
- Christmas silhouette patterns you can cut out from our Belznickle Blog
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| The doll Advent calendar prior to painting and applying decoupage. (seen from different angles) |
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| The finished calendar seen from side, back and up-close. |
Activities you might like to do on each day of the Advent calendar with your dolls according to the 25 Days of December: Some of these activities may found at our doll's Christmas Index.
- Share a cup of hot cocoa with your dolls.
- Mail a letter to Santa Claus for each from each of your dolls.
- Your dolls might like to build a small snowman outside!
- Assemble a festive doll photo shoot for December.
- Play dress-up with your dolls for a Christmas party.
- Print or Draw Christmas cards for all your dolls the receive through the Dolly Post.
- Craft tiny ornaments for the doll's Christmas tree.
- Read aloud a favorite holiday poem.
- Share a Christmas themed bedtime story with your dolls.
- Sew a fancy Christmas skirt for each of your dolls to wear on Christmas Day.
- Sing carols with your dolls.
- Pretend to bake Christmas cookies in your doll's kitchen.
- Go shopping for your dolls at a local dollar store for Christmas.
- Wrap presents for each of your dolls with beautiful paper and tiny bows.
- Take a ride in the car with your doll's to grandmother's house.
- Introduce the Christmas story to your dolls from the Bible. (Luke 2: 1-20)
- DIY a Santa Suit for one of your dolls to visit your dollhouse on Christmas Eve.
- Give a Christmas party for your friends and have them bring their favorite dolls along.
- Visit a church to listen to a Christmas choir perform.
- Watch your favorite Christmas movie with your doll.
- Have a Christmas themed sleepover with your best friend and include your dolls at the event.
- Teach your doll how to string popcorn and cranberries for the Christmas tree.
- Make angels in the snow or build a snow fort outside.
- Watch doll stop-motion film for Christmas at YouTube
- Take a photo of your doll wearing a wooly hat and heavy coat. Print this photo, mount it to a paper frame and hang it on your own tree to remember all the fun you had this year!
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