Home-made advent calendar

Chocolate advent calendars on the equator are a really bad idea. So I decided to make one myself this year, from a whole load of empty cardboard tubes (toilet and kitchen rolls), crepe paper, tissue paper, cardboard, gold and silver paint and some glitter glue. The backing was an old quilter's cutting board that I painted with white wall paint. The tubes are covered in crepe paper inside and out and the lids are made from cardboard discs covered in crepe paper and held into place with small hair-bands. I traced all the numbers from cardboard and decorated them before gluing onto the lids. I filled it with loads of plastic tot that my daughter just loves; the little parts of a Playmobil set, some bracelets, etc.

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