Angel Themed DIY Advent Calendar
Angel Themed DIY Advent Calendar is a festive project where you decorate or craft an advent calendar with angel motifs, using small boxes or compartments, paint, glitter, and holiday details.
Calories:
Materials
- Wooden Advent Calendar
- Acrylic Paint White, Silver
- Paint Brushes
- Posca Paint Pens
- Wooden Numbers
- Glue Gun
Instructions
- We began by taking out the doors from the Advent Calendar as these were the first thing to paint. It is a great idea to number the bottom of the doors so you can slide them back into the correct slots when the task is complete.
- My daughter painted the doors in acrylic Silver. The paint is pretty fast to dry and she had to paint two coats to get the doors looking good.
- We set the doors aside to dry and then worked together on the Advent Calendar Frame. We opted to paint this white as we thought it would go well with the Angel theme we wanted.
- Painting the Calendar was pretty easy. We had fun doing this task and again had to give the Calendar two coats.
- The Acrylic paint was really good quality and easy to use and we used two thirds of the tube to paint the Calendar twice.
- Sylvia really enjoyed the painting and we discussed what we would place inside our calendar as we painted. I thought it would be great to put chocolate inside but Sylvia would prefer little toys such as Shopkins. I guess that is the healthier option.
- Once the paint had dried we were able to place the boxes back into the correct slots of the Advent Calendar. Next I used the Posca paint pens to paint little Angels onto some of the advent boxes. Posca Pens are my favourite painting tool and I had fun creating different designs.
- I painted the angels while I watched X factor. It was really fun. I love painting with posca pens and find it really enjoyable. The Angels turned out quite nice.
- Once the Advent Calendar was ready, Sylvia then helped me to glue the numbers onto our Advent Calendar using a glue gun we had purchased from Hobbycraft a few weeks ago.
- The Advent Calendar looks really great to me. I am really pleased with the end result and although it's not perfect, I think the unique and imperfect design makes it pretty cool.
- I was going to put a Star at the top or an angel but in the end I decided to go with a colored tinsel. We placed a red tinsel on our Advent Calendar but did not glue it so we can change the color next year.