What to put in toddler's advent calendar?

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In the January sales I bought one of those lovely felt advent calendars to put small gifts in. The little pockets are tiny, ideal for something like sweets or hair clips but DD will only be 20 months in Dec and I don't want her to have anything that's a choking hazard. Any ideas please?

I have one for DS who will be 23 months in December and bought a set of 24 mini wooden tree ornaments. I will buy a small tree for him and then he can add an ornament to it every morning.

My plan is for it to be a Christmas tradition for us so I don't need to find new advent calendar fillers every year. I've learnt the hard way through teenaged DSS that thinking of filler ideas gets harder and harder as they get older!

That's a lovely idea! Thank you.

Dd was 2.5 last year, I did loads of hair clips, puffy stickers, hair bands etc with a goodies oaty bite each day (forgot to put the oaty bite in one day and all hell broke loose!)
The last week I had a threading toy that I separated so she got the lace and toy the first day then a new piece each day until it was all done. She loved that.

This year I have dd will be 3.5 and ds will be 15 months.
I'm planning to put in a oaty bite again for each of them and then activity cards.
Each day there will be a new activity to do. Some are going to be big things (a trip to an Christmas themed activity farm) and some small (make hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows) but I figure these will be reusable each year and can become a tradition.

Stickers would go down well! DH suggested a rice cake every day - I laughed but perhaps it would work. I like the idea of a daily activity too but maybe when she's a bit older.

I'm doing one for my dd who will be 2.5 and asked on here the other week - lovely suggestions.
Including finger puppets (eBay have ones from China for something like £2) so I have ordered some of those - I've also done activities for some days, write to Father Christmas, help decorate the tree etc and also some days have a little chocolate in.

Bubbles were another suggestion.

A Duplo brick/person/animal?

My dc are older (well 2 of them -the third is just 3) and I break up Lego sets and give them a few bricks a day to complete the set over advent. Ds (2last year) had the same and lots of help, but I would have given him Duplo if he would have allowed it!

Depends how big the pockets are but what about things like Xmas socks, Xmas hairband, xmas tshirts/vest, wind up toy. Crayons and mini Xmas/character colouring pads (check pound land) Xmas chocolates if allowed, small tub of play doh obv playing with her and watching she's not putting in mouth, figures from happy land or little people range (could get some figures in sales or second hand on eBay) my daughter has Disney princess little people range and she loves them, got them when she was 2.
Butterfly or fairy glider - same as plane gliders obv you would put together and both enjoy throwing about. Hawkins bazaar has these as well as other small things.

We are alternating chocolates and little notes with Christmas crafts/ activities/days out on so things like stained glass window cookies for the tree, going to garden centre to pick out a tree decoration, making paperchains etc.

These are all such brilliant ideas, thank you.