Make advent calendars from milk cartons yourself

Advent calendar made of milk cartons - that's what you need:

• 12 rinsed milk cartons à 1 liter
• 2 cans of matte, white spray paint from the hardware store
• 12 model railway snowpans, z. B. "26328 snow pots 25 pieces, 60" 150 mm "about 18 euros by Noch, on www.haertle.de
• 1 packet of silver Christmas tree candles and 12 candle spouts brass, Ø 14 mm, at www.weihnachtsbaumkerzenhalter.de
• 1.20 m beech wood strip, 4 cm wide, 0.9 cm high, sawn into twelve 10 cm long pieces (cutting in the hardware store)
• Hot glue gun
• Glue
• 12 LED tealights, available at www.ikea.com
• 1 cutter
• White paper
• Numeric stamp, via de.dawanda.com
• black inkpad
• newsprint

Advent calendar from milk cartons - how it works:

1. Lie down milk carton. Use the cutter to cut small windows into the top half so that you will not see the LED lights later. Cut out the bottoms of the bags.

2. Spray milk cartons all over white, preferably outside on newspaper.

3. Sprinkle pieces of wood on top and sides also white, allow to dry.

4. Stick a tree and a candle spout onto each piece of wood with the hot glue gun.

5. Stamp numbers 1 to 24 on white paper, cut out rectangular.

6. Just stick figures with glue on the houses, odd with hot glue gun on the fir-tree tops.

7. Put candles in holder. Ignite a candle or LED light more every Advent day.

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