Traditional Advent Calendars for young children

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I'm thinking about getting advent calendars for the DC (4 and 2 years) soon.

I want to get them the traditional sort that just have a picture behind the door, no chocolates, no toys or anything fancy.

Does anyone have any recommendations about where to look for this sort of advent calendar?

Phoenix card make lovely ones. They sell online.

www.usborne.com/catalogue/book/1~CL~CLA~9514/advent-calendar-to-colour.aspx

I also made a home made one when dc were little but it was quite tricky to get the windows and pictures to line up!

Caspari ones are lovely and you can get them from Amazon/in museum gift shops but they are a bit more expensive - between 8 and 12 pounds. I try to buy mine in the January sales, but sometimes the nicer ones go before then!

Oh and if you have a National Trust shop anywhere near you they do lovely ones there, they're also on the NT website for about 5 or 6 pounds:

shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/dolls-house-advent-calendar/p4734
shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/paula-bowles-advent-calendar/p7201
shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/father-christmas-advent-calendar/p7224

My small local WH Smith had a few. Bigger branches might have a larger selection.

Oxfam sell them, and not too expensive

We had this one, it's lovely and can be reused

We have the Melissa and Doug wooden one so the kids can get involved and I don't get angsty over them ripping the windows of my Phoenix cards one, which I reuse for a few years at least.

I also got a nice colourful kids one from Home Bargains last year its a large felt Christmas tree with 24 little pockets and a gingerbread man on a ribbon that you move from pocket to the next.

Elf on the shelf also arrives with a star wars lego one for DS and a playmobil one for DD, so yeah FIVE advent calendars for a family of four lol

Thanks for all the suggestions

I picked one up today from whsmith, they had about ten different options, quite impressed! Plus they were only £3.50!

Orchard Cards have loads of traditional ones, we've had this one in the past which was very pretty,