Advent Calendars : game over this year !

It will be my last post about Advent calendars...for this year ;)

Thank you all for your participations. I really enjoyed to discover so many different calendars. Congrats to all of you. Such creativity, so much time spent to make them for your littles ones...Well done !

Choose my 3 favorites wasnt' easy....therefore I chose 5 + 1 special mention !

Une touche de... & b...comme boudin for the design & originality // pour l'originalité et le côté design.

Made in Toulouse for the so lovely presentation of her 2 calendars // pour la douceur et la beauté de la mise en scène de ses 2 calendriers.

Manucréa (up) & Rouflaquette & cie (down) for the natural & simplicity

And a special mention to Petit chat perché because she managed to involve the daddy : he handmade all these wooden small houses// pour l'implication du papa

To thank you ALL for your kind participation, I offer a gift to ALL the participants.

To receive it by email, please just send me an email (sohappykids (at) gmail (dot) com // mon adresse email figure en colonne de droite tout en bas).

Discover all the others advent calendars clicking through links in comments section :)

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And finaly, I can't help to share 2 new & last;) Advent Calendars !! :)

The first is from Mo : 24 Christmas books wrapped in red paper to have, each evening, a new Christmas story to tell.

This Advent calendar will be back again & again, year after year, to build strong & sweet memories. I love her idea !

I will try to make it next year, mixing English & French Stories.

Her Xmas tales list :

1. Mr Snow – Roger Hargreaves

2. Little Elephant’s Christmas – Heluiz Washburne & Jean McConnell
3. Madeline’s Christmas – Ludwig Bemelmans
4. Petunia’s Christmas – Roger Duvoisin
5. A Star So Bright – M Christina Butler & Caroline Peder
6. Mog’s Christmas – Judith Kerr
7. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey – Susan Wojciechowski
8. One Snowy Night – Nick Butterworth
9. Lyle at Christmas – Bernard Waber
10. Letters from father Christmas – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. Die Weihnachtsengelein – Else Wenz-Vietor
12. Weihnachten im Stall – Astrid Lindgren
13. Wie Weihnachtelt Man? – Kathrin Schaerer & Lorenz Pauli
14. Weihnachten im Bullerbue – Astrid Lindgren
15. Little Rabbit’s Christmas – Harry Horse
16. Albert le Blanc – Nick Butterworth
17. Bear Stays Up For Christmas – Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman
18. Paddington and the Christmas Surprise – Michael Bond
19. Mr Willowby’s Christmas Tree – Robert Barry
20. The Little Fir Tree – Margaret Wise Brown
21. One Thousand Christmas Beards – Roger Duvoisin (out of print)
22. Christmas Day in the Morning – Pearl S. Buck
23. The First Christmas – Jan Pienkowski
24. ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas – Clement C. Moore (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith)

Des suggestions pour de beaux contes/histoires de Noël en français & avec de belles illustrations ?

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And at last but not least, the happy doll advent calendar organized by Audrey, from Abcde...wxyz & her talented illustrators friends.

Each day of December, discover an illustration free to download, to build a huge Advent calendar along the coming month.

Enjoy ! :)