On-Line Advent Calendars
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These calendars won’t improve your productivity, but they can be part of your holiday planning, helping the family count down to Christmas.
December 1st is the day people starting popping the doors on Advent calendars and eating the little chocolates inside. The following on-line advent calendars won’t produce any confections, but you will be able to mark the passage of the next 25 days. Some of these calendars are based on the liturgical calendar. The Advent season begins on November 30th this year.
The traditional calendar consists of two pieces of cardboard on top of each other. Twenty four doors are cut out in the top layer, with a number ranging from one to twenty four on each. Beginning on the first day of December, one door is opened each day, counting down the days remaining until Christmas Eve, from twenty four to one. Each compartment displays an image, which can be either a feature of the Nativity story and the birth of Jesusholly). or a piece of paraphernalia to do with Christmas (e.g., bells or holly).
Advent calendars can also consist of cloth sheets with small pockets to be filled with candy or other small items. Many calendars have been adapted by merchandisers and manufacturers to include a piece of chocolate or other confectionery behind each compartment —Wikipedia
- http://www.smile-a-day.com/advent-calendar.shtml
- http://www.smmp.com/Advent/Advent.htm
- http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/
- http://www.cartoonchurch.com/advent/
- http://www.boowakwala.com/calendar/online-advent-calendar.html
- http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1504/kal/kal_frame.html
- http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/advent125.htm
You can even make Your Own:
- Here are PDF templates for an Advent Calendar that you can put together http://www.janbrett.com/christmas_treasury_advent_calendar.htm
- eHow.com has instructions for making an Advent Calendar using a bath towel and brown paper bags: http://www.ehow.com/how_11216_make-advent-calendar.html
- And here’s a more complex, sewing project at Sewing.org: http://www.sewing.org/html/eo_advent_calendar.html
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http://www.advientos.com
Personalized Online Advent Calendar. Free.
You can upload your own fotos and messages for each window.
It is also possible to download a PDF to print.
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That’s a great post and I know my comment should be related to it, but that handbook is a scam. Don’t buy it. Besides that thanks for the information and links.