One of my favorite holiday activities are advent calendars. I love counting down to Christmas day! I can remember being a kid and how exciting it was to see our advent calendar get full.
I’ve been looking around for some fun advent calendars for kids to really get Brady and Paityn excited to use it. Plus, since they’re so young this helps them visually to understand just how far away we are from Christmas. They didn’t have anything like this when I was a kid and I think it’s so cool there is a Lego advent calendar!
10 Super Cool Advent Calendars for Kids
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LEGO City – Perfect for the kids who adore LEGOs, this is an entire Christmas LEGO city! Build your own adventure on the countdown to Christmas.
Eric Carle’s Dream Snow Pop-Up Advent – Based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the gorgeous work of Eric Carle. Each day, open a new window to find a new decoration and add it to the display.
Personalized Elf On The Shelf – This one is great because it is personalized with your child’s name on it! You can choose whatever you want to include in the pockets as a surprise each day.
Melissa & Doug Wooden Advent Calendar – This colorful advent calendar has magnetic pieces kids can choose from each day and a read-aloud ritual printed on the back. Leave the bright shiny star for the Christmas day!
Frozen Loopy Loom – Behind each day you will find a special loom gift to total 25 Frozen loom accessories.
Littlest Pet Shop – Each day reveals a new pet shop surprise! Find a new one every day all the way until Christmas.
K’NEX Angry Birds – Fun Angry Bird surprises hide behind each door like things to build and figurines.
Barbie Advent – Get a new accessory for barbie every day leading up to Christmas.
The Elf On The Shelf Advent Calendar – Get a new message from Santa every single day for the whole month of December.
PLAYMOBIL Santa’s Workshop – This one contains twenty-four surprise items for each day of Advent to form a gift that will keep on giving long after the holidays have passed.

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Wonderful and very bright calendars for children, I really liked them. But I would also like to advise a calendar that is more practical and more suitable for work. Since I love to keep calendars, I usually take a printable calendar on this site. I really like their design and practicality, so be sure to check out this site, I’m sure you’ll love these calendars too