Mum creates amazing DIY advent calendar by filling empty tray with pound shop toys

The front of the calendar and the tray filled with toys
The empty calendar and gifts cost a total of £10 (Picture: ExtremeCouponingAndBargainsUK)

Last year Maria Stockton bought her son an advent calendar – but he ended up being disappointed by the treats he got.

So this year, Maria, from Chester, decided to create her own.

She bought an empty calendar for £4 and £6 worth of sweets and toys from budget stores to create the perfect Christmas countdown.

She shared her DIY creation on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group and other members were impressed.

Maria posted: ‘I was so disappointed with the advent calendar I got for my little boy last year, so decided to make my own! £4 from the works for the calendar and about £6 to fill it. I’m made up with it’

She added multiple items, including tiny packets of sweets, chocolate coins and tiny Thomas trains, to each window to give her son lots to open every day.

The empty tray from the advent calendar
She bought the calendar for £4 (Picture: ExtremeCouponingAndBargainsUK)
The gifts she included in the advent calendar
And then spent another £6 on gifts (Picture: ExtremeCouponingAndBargainsUK)

The post had over 3,000 likes with lots of people commenting that they wanted to copy the idea.

One said: ‘I didn’t know you could do anything like this, I think I’ll do this for my little boy instead of chocolates, they get boring don’t they .’

The tray of the advent calendar when full
She added a few items to each day (Picture: Picture: ExtremeCouponingAndBargainsUK)

Another added: ‘I was thinking of using the Thomas toy to make my own but couldn’t find any that wasn’t too expensive.’

The £4 calendar isn’t reusable and some suggested picking up a wooden one that can be used again and again.

Primark is selling this incredible Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train that you could fill up with gifts.

It’s slightly more at £15, but you can use it every year.

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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/06/mum-creates-amazing-diy-advent-calendar-filling-empty-tray-pound-shop-toys-11051336/
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