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Cookie Sheet Advent Calendar Craft

Cookie sheets can be used for more than holiday baking

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Everyone enjoys counting the days until Christmas with an Advent Calendar, and its even more fun when you’ve made the calendar with your kids. You can pick everything up at your local craft store and grab a cookie sheet at the grocery store. One quick trip and you’re ready to go!

What You Need:

  • Large cookie sheet
  • 1 12” x 12” sheet patterned paper
  • 1 12” x 12” sheet green textured paper
  • 1 8 ½” x 11 ½” sheet of solid colored card stock
  • Ribbon
  • Drill with ¼” bit (adults)
  • Scissors
  • White glue
  • ¾” circular magnets
  • Hot glue gun and glue stick (adults)
  • 24 mini Christmas ornaments or resin decorations
    (We’ve seen advent calendars that go to either 24 or 25 days)

Instructions:

  1. Drill two holes in the top edge of the cookie sheet; one right of center and one and left of center.
  2. Trim the patterned paper to the width of the cookie sheet. Glue the piece to the bottom of the cookie sheet. (It should cover approximately two-thirds.)
  3. Draw or use your computer to create an eight-by-three grid table for the calendar. The boxes in the table should be numbered from 1 through 24.
  4. Glue the calendar directly under the patterned paper on the cookie sheet.
  5. Cover the seam where the two papers meet with a length of ribbon.
  6. Draw a tree pattern and once you are satisfied with the shape, transfer the pattern to the green textured paper and cut out.
  7. Glue the tree shape to the cookie sheet. Add a yellow star on top.
  8. Glue each mini ornament (available at local craft stores) to a ¾” round magnet with your hot glue gun.
  9. Cut a 10” length of ribbon. Thread it through the two holes at the top of the cookie sheet. Make a small bow, allowing a loop of ribbon to remain in the back of cookie sheet to act as a hanger.

Beginning December 1 and for every day after, take one ornament from the square and place it on the tree and watch as your kid’s excitement builds!

Happy Holidays!

Shari & Matt

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Matt and Shari
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  1. Adorable!

  2. I love it!!

  3. What a terrific idea!

  4. Thank you so much for the fantastic idea. It will be so great to have a fun calendar that doesn’t include sugar.

  5. I think that this would be a great craft to do with my kids next year..I will do the drilling before they get home!

  6. This is the cutest idea, nice and easy for ‘non crafters’ like myself. I will try this one!!

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