| All you need is... | | | | You need to be very careful, and cut 3 sides of each |
| Felt tip pens, paints or pencils, PVA glue, thin card or | | | | square. The doors could open to the left or to the right, |
| stiff paper, magazines and catalogues and two print | | | | or upwards or downwards, whatever way you |
| outs from the Santa's Postbag website, the link is | | | | choose. |
| below. You need a calendar front and a calendar | | | | To cut the doors is a bit tricky and younger children |
| back. | | | | may need an adults help. |
| Take the 'back' print out, it is covered in 25 squares. | | | | Put a ball of plasticine or Blu-Tack on the table, and |
| Each square corresponds with a door on the front | | | | place your picture on top of it where you want to |
| print out. Cut out pictures from the magazines and | | | | make the hole, at a corner of a square would be good. |
| catalogues and stick them onto the squares. Don't | | | | Push a pencil through the paper and into the Blu-Tack |
| worry if the pictures hang out of the boxes a little, it | | | | or plasticine. This will give you a hole to get the |
| wont bee seen later. Leave this to one side to dry. | | | | scissors into to cut the door. Cut around all 25 doors. |
| There is a choice of two print outs for the calendar | | | | Stick the calendar front to the back (The sheet with |
| front. There is a Santa calendar and a Rudolf one. | | | | the magazine pictures stuck to it) Making sure that you |
| Print one out and colour or paint the picture on the | | | | can see the pictures when the doors are opened. |
| front of the calendar. If you choose to paint it, you will | | | | Leave the calendar somewhere to dry. |
| need to let it dry out before you continue. | | | | On the first of December you an open the first door |
| The front of the calendar needs to be stuck to thin | | | | of the advent calendar, the door with number one on it. |
| card or stiff paper. Sugar paper would be ideal. Cover | | | | Open one door every day. The morning that you open |
| the whole of the sheet in a thin layer of PVA glue, and | | | | door number 25 will be Christmas Day, when we |
| stick on to the card or paper. Allow to dry. | | | | celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| Each door on the front of the calendar needs cutting. | | | | |