Advent Calendar
Time to allow: 1hr | Difficulty: 
Material
- Foamcore cardboard
- Decorative paper
- Scissors
- 24 matchboxes
- Glue or double sided adhesive tape
- Masking Tape
- Decorative accessories (paste shapes, buttons, sequins …)
- Daim’s 3D paint
Steps
- Cut out 24 rectangles from the decorative paper and glue them on the box tops. Remember to vary the colour combinations.
- Cover the boxes with the masking tape. Careful you need to be able to open the boxes.
- Cut out and glue a strip of coloured paper onto the cardboard and write « Merry Christmas » using the Diam’s 3D paint.
- Glue the strips of masking tape to the cardboard.
- Fix the boxes
- Cut out and glue the numbers.
- Decorate your advent calendar using the decorative accessories.
Your advent calendar is ready to fill with surprises. 
Material
- Star box
- Sheets of decopatch paper
- Varnish glue
- Paintbrush
- Numbers
- Scissors
- Acrylic paints
- Felt
For the large lid:
- Cut out some pieces of decopatch paper by hand or with scissors.
- Apply varnish glue to the part of the lid to be decorated.
- Place a piece of the decopatch paper on the varnished area.
- Re-apply the varnish glue to the decopatch paper stroking the brush from the centre to the edge
- Repeat this action overlapping the pieces until the lid is completely covered.
For the small lids:
- Paint the small lids. You can also use the decopatch technique.
- Leave to dry for 30 minutes.
- Glue the numbers on
- Slip a small surprise or a treat under each number.
