The Christmas that I was expecting my daughter, I set about making her an advent calendar.
I sourced the fabric from charity shops in the form of men's shirts. I knew I wanted a red tartan fabric along with a few others and luckily I managed to nab exactly the sort of thing that I was looking for.
During the last few weeks of my pregnancy, I absorbed myself into measuring, cutting and hand stitching. I really enjoyed the process of putting it together.
It took me some weeks to complete the 25 little pockets but when I did I was quite pleased with the result. Definitely not perfect but imperfectly perfect to me.
This week whilst scrolling online I came across this picture......
It's definitely an eye opener isn't it? :(
As a family who have drastically reduced our use of single use plastic over the last few years I knew that I wouldn't be buying my children a supermarket chocolate advent calendar.
I am not preaching to anyone here but this was just something that I personally chose not to buy.
So whilst DD was in nursery, I got to work with putting my handmade version together.
Luckily, I managed to find the perfect size branches in my garden thanks to Storm Arwen!
I then rummaged in one of my craft boxes for some string and started to glue gun the string to the pockets.
I will pop treats in each pocket which will NOT include any plastic tat but will be useful and purposeful.
I hoped that my daughter would love it as much as me and I'm pleased to say she does!
This cost pennies to make and something that I can bring out year after year. Bonus is that there is no plastic involved so a success in my books :)
I love this idea and did something similar myself. I actually wanted to get in contact with you, but cant find your email address... Its about helping parents cope with children with autism.... thank you
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