Muffin Tray Advent Calendar
This Muffin Tray Advent Calendar is fun to make with your kids - and even
more fun to fill with treats for December and the run up to Christmas! The
muffin trays are a more useful size than the standard advent calendar if you
would like to include a small gift each day.
You will need:
Muffin trays or individual pie cases totalling 24 spaces (we used a combination
of disposables but you could also use 2 12-muffin baking trays)
Wrapping paper (not the foil type)
Marker pens (or number stickers, scrapbook embellishments etc)
Glue or sticky tack
Alternatives (see below):
Last year's Christmas cards
Sticky tape
Colouring equipment, stickers etc
Instructions:
Cut 24 circles of wrapping paper - a 3 inch circle paper punch or a die-cutting
machine comes in very handy here! (If you don't have one you can always cut
through several layers of wrapping paper at once).
Write a number from 1 to 24 on each circle, or use stickers.
Fill the muffin tray spaces with your advent treats. Glue around the edge of
each pie case and stick on a circle. If you are using a real muffin tray which
you want to use again, use small blobs of sticky tack to hold the paper circles
in place. You will probably need 3 or 4 small blobs per circle.
Now it is just a question of opening up one container every day. Because we used
disposable trays, thin paper and glue, we get to punch through the paper every
morning!
Alternatives:
Use last year's Christmas cards and leftover scraps of wrapping
paper to make the circles - you can get a really pretty patchwork effect this
way.
Instead of muffin trays, you could use small paper cups. Buy a
Christmas design, or use plain white and get the children to decorate them first
with pencils, crayons and stickers. Tape the circles securely over the top when
you have filled the cups so that children can shake them each day and guess what
is inside - very exciting!
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