Make your own Advent calendar – 5 tips for special anticipation
The Advent season is just around the corner! And what could be nicer than sweetening this time for your loved ones with a homemade Advent calendar? Designed with love and creativity, your homemade Advent calendar will be a real highlight on every day of Advent. In this article you will find five tips with which you can create a unique DIY Advent calendar that will provide pure anticipation.
Tips for your DIY advent calendar
For a homemade Advent calendar you need 24 small gifts and pretty packaging. Sounds quite simple, doesn't it? But what could you fill an Advent calendar with and how can you design it? Our tips will help you with these questions:
Tip 1: Choose small gifts for your calendar
Personally selected small gifts make the DIY Advent calendar something very special. Therefore, the 24 gifts should of course reflect the taste of the person receiving the gift.
You can give the calendar a theme, for example shared memories or wellness gifts. Then everything fits together particularly harmoniously. But you can also combine different things, for example treats, individual messages, cosmetic products and little favorite things.
Start choosing gifts early so you have everything together in time!
Tip 2: High-quality cosmetics – pampering moments for the advent season
Luxurious lip care, fine hand cream or moisturizing serums – exclusive cosmetic products are valuable gifts and offer real moments of well-being during the cold and stressful Christmas season.
Travel size cosmetics are ideal for an Advent calendar. For example, you can buy a set with different travel sizes or individually packaged serums and split them up over several days. However, it is important that you take into account the skin type and skin needs of the person receiving the gift. If you're not sure, it's helpful to take a look at the products the person uses.
In our shop you will also find many valuable cosmetic gifts. Particularly practical: You can filter by skin type or area of application to be sure to find the right care products.
For your DIY Advent calendar, the all-rounder products from Dr. RIMPLER small highlights for pampering moments:
- Hand Cream Dark Cherry – A nourishing balm with a delicate cherry scent that makes even dry hands supple again.
- Foot Butter – Intensive care for rough feet that leaves noticeably soft skin.
- Soft Peeling – Gentle peeling for deeply cleansed skin, ideal for preparing for care products.
- Probiotic Skin Food – Care with probiotics for radiant skin and a strengthened skin barrier.
Perfect for a little break during Advent!
Tip 3: Photos and individual messages
There doesn't have to be a material gift in every door of the Advent calendar. Personal photos, small messages or motivational quotes can be at least as valuable.
For example, write down why the person receiving the gift is so important to you! Print out photos of shared memories and write a short comment about them! Or collect quotes that can make the person receiving the gift happy or laugh!
Tip 4: Treatment vouchers from skin experts
If you want a little more, take a look at the institute finder from Dr. RIMPLER search for a partner institute nearby and create an individual voucher. For a special DIY Advent calendar, you can give away a treatment from a beautician. So the recipient not only gets a nice surprise, but also a high-quality skin care experience from experts.
Tip 5: the presentation of the calendar
The gifts don't make an Advent calendar, you also need the right design. The simplest option is this:
Wrap each individual gift in wrapping paper and label it with the appropriate number! You can then display the packages in a box or hang them from ribbons on a pole or clothesline.
Alternatively, you can also use other materials for packaging:
• small cloth bags,
• paper bags,
• reusable cans,
• wooden boxes or
• similar packaging.
They look particularly elegant and can be reused afterwards.
Conclusion:
A homemade Advent calendar is a wonderful, individual gift that gives you real joy for 24 days (and beyond). Choose small gifts that suit the person receiving the gift and present them beautifully and creatively!
Choose a motto or combine different personal things! Your DIY calendar will definitely make your eyes light up.