Christmas books advent calendar shaped like Santa

My favourite tradition for Christmas is to create an advent calendar of books and DVDs. It is so much better than chocolate or toys. I would love to say this year I have been really organised and already wrapped the books and decorated them but this is actually from last year.

I have a couple of ideas for this year so you will have to keep an eye on Instagram to see what we make.

I first saw the idea of wrapping books and opening them every day at advent on My Little Bookcase. I had a huge collection of Christmas books and it seemed such a lovely idea to unwrap them every day. I loved the idea of making them look really pretty so they become a part of the Christmas decorations. Last year I knew I wanted to make a Santa out of the books and films. This was perfect because you can easily see which are films and which are books.

To make a Santa Christmas Books Advent Calendar you need:

25 Christmas book
Red and white wrapping paper
Googly eyes
paper plate
red pom pom
cotton wool
Santa hat

Wrap the books in red and the DVDs in white or pink. Stack the red in a pile getting smaller towards the top. Add a neat pile of DVDs on the top.

Stick googly eyes onto the front.

Put the Santa hat on top.

To make the beard use a paper plate cut into a beard shape. Leave a flap to stick in between the books. Decorate with a pom pom nose and lots of fluffy white cotton wool.

Put the paper plate beard in between the books and DVDS