DIY advent calendar

Hey,

This year I decided I was going to make a advent calendar for my dad as your never too old for an advent calendar.

This was the finished calendar it doesn't look as good as I wanted it too but I am pleased with it.

The things you will need:

A wire coat hanger

Brown Parcel Paper

Parcel String

Ribbon 

Sharpie

Sellotape

Christmas Chocolates ( or whatever you want to put in your calendar) 

A bow is optional

Step 1: Plan the order you want the gifts to go (I bought 25 things to lead right up to Christmas day). I did this by laying it out in the order and taking a picture of it.

Step 2: Wrap all the gifts and make sure you number them as you go so you don't get confused, I did this in pencil first then once I had them all wrapped went over it in a black sharpie but you can use whatever colour you want.

Step 3: I then tied the string around each wrapped gift like you would a parcel.

Step 4: Cut 24 pieces of the string at three different lengths and the 25th needs to be longer. Then I tied a piece of string to each gift alternating the three different lengths between them all.

Step 5: Starting at with number one I tied this at one end and number two at the other and kept adding the rest in random places until I got to 25 and tied this in the middle of the hanger.

Step 6: I strengthened the hanger by wrapping the ribbon in a zig-zag and then around the hanger, once this was done I tied the bow to the hanger and wrapped the excess around the hanger as well and tied it in the middle where I had tied the number 25 gift.

You can adapt this so it is your own by adding different decorations and using something different to attach the gifts too.

Thank you for reading.

Lou

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