Advent Calendars 2026

[SaraHoliday]

Post a photo of any new advent calendars! Chocolate or otherwise! Bought or handmade!

After Eight Advent Calendar - £7.99 - B&M

Home Bargains - The SnackVent Advent Calendar - 24 days of Crispmas - £9.99

(There are numbered 'advent doors' behind the first layer of packaging).

Home Bargains - Fidget Toys Advent Calendar

Tesco - Brewdog 12 Beers of Christmas!

(I believe there is only 1 'Christmas themed' can inside though - the other 11 are their usual selection)

How about the girls accesserize jewellery calendar? My daughter had one last year and she loved it!

I am loving this thread! Thank you @SaraHoliday🎄.

Has anyone seen the Fererro Rocher calendar in real life? I can only find it on Amazon where it’s ££££. I’m wondering if it might be better to get the box of 48 and make my own with two chocolates a day?

Thank you!

The Ferraro Rocher is on offer at Tesco currently! £13.00. I've seen it in store this week.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/316941762/?icid=ghsandapp_ghs_pdp_share

About that age I made my daughter an earrings one - she had had them pierced the previous summer. Few nicer pairs and a few cheaper multipacks split up.

or also just a little older I made my own ones with things like bath bombs, nail varnish etc.

i would buy tissue paper and a pack of festive numbered stickers off eBay and then put it all in a gift bag.

I might do this for both my girls actually.

I did something similar when they were little and bought some playmobil sets and split them up so they got a new bit each day. Better value than the official playmobil calendars

I got DD who's 12 a stationery advent calendar (not a posh adult one, just from Amazon).

I've had a knit a scarf and a swap yarn one in previous years and am considering this Prym craft one this year.

Got DS a Bosch advent calendar- pricey at £45 but looks interesting.

Percy Pig - Advent Calendar - Marks and Spencer - £7.00

The BIG Daddy Advent Calendar - Marks and Spencer - £12.00

Chocolate Lolly Advent Calendar - Marks and Spencer - £10.00

I've just bought this colouring book one

https://stillandslow.com/en-gb/products/advent-calendar

As a type two diabetic I asked Google AI for a low carb and suagr chocolate advent calendar with no Maltitol, a sweetner that can spike blood suagr. It came up with this It's also vegan and doesn't look too Christmassy but at least I can join in now. Thought it might be useful for others.

My kids buy this for me for my birthday as it's at the start of December & I love it too. It's a shame they haven't done a different design this year though

Ds(8) wanted a Minecraft calendar this year. Unfortunately the Lego one was only for last year (we didn't get that one, he got a Lego city one) and I'm not paying extortionate prices for ones on selling sites! And any others seem to be filled with party bags style rubbishy bits.

So I've bought a wooden calendar from Hobbycraft craft and doing my own Minecraft themed one. So far I have:

5 Lego models (Have looked at what was in the Lego one last year and have ordered the pieces the mini scenes, warden and iron golem... Note that there are the actual individual sets available on eBay which as it turns out, may be cheaper as I kept forgetting pieces and needing to buy more which then cost postage!).

Some specific diecast figures (he likes to collect the blind bag ones but have bought some specific characters

A blind bag dungeon diecast (don't think you can buy in shops now, vinted had unopened ones)

A blind bag backpack pal

A Minecraft creeper pen

Bathbombs (about £3 from b and m for a set of 4 that I'll divide up,.plus a bigger creeper one from Tesco)

Stickers

Planning on getting some socks and maybe a beanie.

I should probably just have paid the extremely over priced Lego one 😂 but it is giving me crafting to do so that's good

Jelly Belly - Jelly Bean Advent Calendar - Garden Centre

Ling Design - Picture Advent Calendars (no treats - to the amazement of one of my work colleagues 🙄) - Garden Centre

This is £4 at ASDA

Heh, I started doing DS1 a DIY Lego calendar after a couple of years of getting him the Star Wars one and him finding it rather underwhelming (and me finding it rather expensive!). It started with me saying, well if I'm spending £25 on a Lego calendar I may as well make sure you get some minifigs you actually want. We went to a local Lego show and I bought 'a few' second-hand minifigs in the marketplace. And some accessories, and 'useful' bricks, etc etc.

Basically I ended up spending nearly twice the price of the official one. And then I did it again, and again, and again. Now the child is 18 and I buy him a Warhammer set he's requested and cut the sprues up into 24 wrappable pieces. FFS

Your bespoke Minecraft calendar sounds extremely lovely, BTW. What a great variety of things you've found for it. And I know this is something your child will remember and think back on wistfully when he's older. Mine does.

What I would really like, though at this stage in November I think I've left it too long, as usual, is a special craft calendar. I'm very picky about craft materials. The Prym one is cute but basically I wouldn't be interested in making any of those ornaments! Ideally I'd have a really high-end embroidery (think a sampler) or a knitting one with a tiny skein of lovely sock yarn every day to make stripey socks with. Some indy yarn dyers do them - they cost an absolute fortune - and they're normally sold out within hours. Ah well.

Last year I treated myself to the Bonne Maman one (it was on offer in Waitrose!) and it was ... ok. I think I still have a couple of pots unopened. I got a bit bored of it halfway through and you tend not to have toast every morning. I like a good tea calendar and I'm tempted by Bird and Blend. And the St Eval one - love their candles, but £50 is a bit much. I also buy a lot of Hotel Chocolat boozy truffles in the plain packaging and wrap them in DIY chocolate foils, and put them in DH and my fabric calendars. (DH has some mini bottles of whisky instead of chocolate on days when I think he could use one!) And I did buy a M&S beauty one for myself until two years ago, when I stopped because I had little tubes of this and that up to my eyebrows and I'm not really that bothered by 'pampering'. And I see that you now pay the full whack rather than getting it half price if you spend, eg, £40 at M&S.

Honestly, the nicest calendar I can think of (apart from a £££s knitting one) is a trad German one with kitsch illustrations and some glitter. And irregular shaped doors. You get them on eBay. No chocolate, just nostalgia.

I have bought my 2 grandsons (6 & 8) a Minecraft one from The Range for £4.99 Minecraft Advent Calendar

Collecting tomorrow, so hopefully it's a decent one!

Got my daughter the red Build a bear advent calendar. She loved it last year! She is in year 7 but still loves soft toys, bless her. It’s very cute! 🐻

Tea advent calendars in Oxfam £9.99.