I just love an advent calendar to countdown to Halloween. If you do to here are here are some advent calendars to inspire you. My boys LOVE ours and it’s such a fun family activity and tradition in our home!
LeAnne submitted her countdown to trick or treat calendar.
Tanya submitted this easy to make Halloween Countdown advent.
This is Amy’s version and I really like all the ribbons she used.
I was also inspired by the Pottery Barn’s version of their advent last year and made you a step-by-step tutorial on how you can your own Halloween advent. Print out the tutorial for free on Executive Homemaker.
I wanted mine skinnier to fit a specific wall, but you can make it wider if you’d like. Please forgive the picture, the quality isn’t the best.
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My kids love countdowns. They are in their teens and they will still build little paper chains to countdown something they are too excited about.
I wonder how many people saw this in the Pottery barn catalog like two years ago – I also made my own advent countdown calendar – the only problem is that my 4yr old son wants to move the big spider marking the day all day long – Ugh I shouldn’t use this until the week before halloween. love your blog.
YAY, thanks for posting about LeAnne, she is a creative genius!
Angie
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this is such a fun idea!
now i want to get started on a christmas one, so i have it done in time!
I made one on my site — thought people might like to see it:
http://inkspirations.blogspot.com/2008/09/countdown-to-halloween-calendar.html
Very cute idea! I have never thought about having a countdown calendar to Halloween. My kids would love it.
xo,
cristin @ simplified bee
Boy I wish I’d seen this BEFORE I plunked down the cash for the Pottery Barn countdown. I don’t regret it because it is pretty freakin’ cool and I got it on sale but your’s looks just as cute and was still a fraction of the on sale price to make. Love it, great copy kat version.
Fyi – clicked on the executive homemaker link and got a 404 error – was able to find the tutorial via a quick search, but you might want to check your link. :)
Thank you SO much for letting me know. I fixed the link!
I love that each of these so different and fun.
Making one of these is on my to-do list for next year, but in the meantime, your post inspired me to do a simpler calendar craft with my son. I linked back here in my post – thank you!
I just ran across this, and I know my kids would love these count-down type calendars. I’m off to get started on one!
Thanks for posting these fun ideas!
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you really should consider renaming these to not have the name advent in them…advent refers to the coming of Christ into the world. halloween has nothing to do with advent.
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