where can I buy a nice advent calandar with no chocs?

[chocolateshoes]

I'm not worried about it being reusable as Ds will probably play with it afterwards, but would prefer not to have sweets or chocs. Any ideas?

I love the ones with sweets

I bought a felt reusable one with little pockets for a gift each day, it came with a marker to go into the little felt pockets.

I bought a box of sweets & put a sweetie each in the pockets though.. so kind of defeated the purpose of not buying a chocolate one

We usually get ours from Past Times.

I like those Firefly and was thinking that when DS is a bit older I'd put puzzles and tongutwisters etc in each pocket. He'll get so many gifts and sweets at Christmas anyway that i don't want him to have more, and I know he'll love opening the little door and seeing the picture.

Christian book shop?

An advent calender with no chocs?? [boggle]

Why don't you make one with your ds? So much fun.

In fact, that's such a good idea, that I think I'll do it myself with my 2!

Thank you, self.

I'm welcome.

have just looked at Past Times and they only do fabric ones. Got some good cards thpough!

Hekate

What about this site traditional style advent calendars I only like old fashioned advent calendars for myself.

Mimum - they are perfect....thank you!!!!!!!!

If you know anyone who sells Phoenix cards, they also sell Advent calendars without sweets...

What about the Playmobil one?

I'd second the Playmobil one - we have bought two different ones of these a couple of years apart and they caused huge excitement every morning - you get cute little boxes of different sizes to open each day and add to a little Christmassy tableau, usually culminating in a Playmobil santa and sleigh.

Additional bonus: you have a whole new set of Playmobil to add to any more you may have, so it carries on being played with throughout the year; and/or if you are super organised you can preserve the cardboard boxes and reassemble the whole thing the following year ( though the surprise factor is obviously not so great!).

The only downside: it does take a while to construct all the little boxes in the first place.

I rather like this one

We have a fabric one from GLTC. It has a blank snowy scene and each pocket contains a character to put onto the scene so by christmas you have lots of different people and things on your lovely christmas picture. I do slip in a little chocolate into the pocket aswell but that is personal preference. I would also recommend the Playmobil one.

Phoenix cards are lovely too are reasonably priced. My cousin had the catalogue the other day.

Oxfam sells ones with no chocolates.

The Phoenix cards ones are lovely too.

another vote for a playmobil one, we got one last year, dd loved it. they are about £10 but re-useable every year

I got fed up with this last year. I don't want chocolate ones - the pictures always seem so dull. I found some fantastic ones online but it cost me nearly £17 with p&p ...which I found to say the least. Especially when I found the same ones half the price in a local Christian bookshop. If you have one near you, try there first.

Oxfam ones are really nice.

wow - thanks every one - loads of ideas here. Brilliant!

Was about to post the Orchard link but see Minum has beaten me to it. I ordered one from there today and I'm embarrasingly excited about receiving it.

some here too - Matthew Rice for me...

[slaps forehead]

snigger

They do seem to have the non-choc non-fiddly-construction market sewn up

We get a cloth one with pockets and then choose personal little gifts to put in each pocket. really fun to put together. Something like this:

www.christmastimeuk.com/display_details.php?action=details&code=2924620&cat=43&subcat=