It's the season of advent for the Playmobil people in our house...

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... and so each day up until Christmas I will be bringing you a small scene from Playmoland. A kind of Playmobil advent calendar, with just a simple picture each day.

What's behind the door today?

Some snowmen which the children have made!

What a wonderful & heart-warming thread, thank you so much! Look forward to the rest of the days in advent.🎄

trots off to look up your back catalog in Classics 😆

I hope Gustav hasn't hurt himself.

No, Gustav hasn't hurt himself, and I'm sure he got Fritz back (although it might have been Akira or Johanna)...

Plucky little Gustav. I hope he enjoys his hot chocolate tonight and dreams of Christmas.

Loving this ‘Advent Calendar’ - look forward to seeing what the next one is.
Slightly concerned that your children need helmets and googles to snowball fight…is this the Christmas Elf and Safety?

I think the helmets and goggles are meant for things like skiing and tobogganing, but I suppose they'll help to prevent head injuries from flying snowballs too!

Oh and @GreatOak if you want to find any of my previous Playmo threads they aren't all in classics. Some of the more recent ones stayed in Chat, now that it doesn't automatically delete threads after 90 days any more.

But if you want to find them, just use the words "for the Playmobil people in our house" in your search. I always use those words in my thread titles to make them more easily searchable!

Do I recall the Puddingheads getting in to trouble for throwing snowballs with stones in them, or am I making that up?

I think you might be imagining that @HomeCountyHome , although they have been responsible for many crimes, so not surprising that you thought of them!

What's behind the door today? Some pretty poinsettias!

No elf on the shelf I see, good on you!

Your scenes are absolutely lovely and I’ve really enjoyed catching up on them as stumbled upon them this morning.

thank you for the time you spend making all of us smile 😃

No elf on the shelf @LlynTegid ! It wasn't really a thing when ds was a child, so we never got into doing that. So the only elves you'll see are those that were helping Father Christmas in his workshop the other day...

Poinsettias never survive in my house (probably the wrong temperature) so it’s good to see two lovely healthy ones in Playmoland!

Ah yes, @petalpower Playmobil poinsettias definitely have the advantage of being very difficult to kill off...

Poinsettias - beautiful.

As an aside, kudos to the person who has been living their best life with the hoover.

Cream carpets are tricky.

Haha, the "cream carpet" Is supposed to be a generalised "snowy" background for the whole advent calendar! I never got round to doing separate floorings for the indoor type scenes...

Oh how cheerful. I love a plant at Christmas- it's a great reminder of the Spring to come.

I’m having that.

What a lovely way to think of things fuzzy 😊

When it comes to my birthday, I treat it as being ‘half way out of the dark’ ✨

Love it!
My birthday is at the end of January and although that is mostly rubbish (!) I do like to think of it as the time when I begin to notice the lengthening of the days. The world will soon be turning to the light.

There is something beautiful about all of the seasons but lengthening days and spring springing is quite possibly my favourite. New life everywhere.

Just not a poinsettia. I’ve never managed to keep them happy sadly.

I'm afraid my birthday is in November, when the days are still getting darker! But once you get into December I'm usually very busy, and there are lights everywhere, so it's all ok. What I really need to do is a kind of advent calendar but for January, when I really could do with something cheerful!

YES PLEASE!!!!

@FuzzyPuffling I'll have a think! I probably wouldn't be able to start anything from the beginning of January as will be quite busy up until the New Year. But maybe something a little later in the month...

Maybe the Playmobil people will make foolish resolutions for the New Year, and break them in spectacular fashion throughout January?