It’s almost December, and that means it’s time to start thinking about your advent calendar for this year! We’ve got a tutorial for a bright and colorful DIY advent calendar. Plus, you can color coordinate all of your advent calendar goodies to match!
Keep reading for the full instructions!
Materials:
Advent Calendars have always been one of my favorite holiday traditions. They seem to make the build-up to Christmas that much more exciting. Each day holds a little surprise and a reminder of the big event! We tapped into our love of rainbows to create a Rainbow Ombre Advent Calendar. Each day counting down to Christmas is represented by a different color bag, filled with coordinating colored toys, treats, or trinkets! We partnered with Brother to create festive P-Touch Embellish ribbons stating days 1 to 25, to tuck into each bag. You, your partner, or your little ones, will have a blast discovering a new treasure each day, not to mention it makes a beautiful display on your wall!
Get the full tutorial for the Dyed Rainbow Advent Calendar below
Rainbow Ombre Advent Calendar
We personalized the P-Touch Embellish red ribbon and paired it with some gold crepe paper tassels to add a little pizazz to each bag. They look super festive! We loved adding the Christmas symbols and borders to each ribbon. The P-touch Embellish machine has decorative options for every occasion imaginable!
Materials:
- 25 Small muslin drawstring bags
- Acrylic paints in all shades of the rainbow
- Small buckets to dilute water
- Tarp to dry bags
- Gold crepe paper
- Scissors
- Hot glue guns
- P-touch Embellish
- Red P-touch Embellish ribbon
Instructions:
- Dilute the acrylic paint with some water to create a dye like consistency.
- Dip the bag about ½ way into the dye. The color will bleed and rise about ¾ of the way up. Let dry on a tarp.
- Repeat with all the different colors.
- Cut 1.5-inch by 3-inch pieces of crepe paper and fringe one long edge
- Take a muslin bag and hot glue the ends of the drawstring onto the inside of the crepe. Roll up tightly and glue to secure.
- Print “Day 1” etc. onto the P-touch Embellish ribbon with any festive symbols you choose!
- Fill each day with goodies and the appropriate ribbon for each day.
Hang your advent bags on a board or wall and start counting down the days!
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