Wooden advent calendar could be made within the
picture and it could be the way to celebrate Christmas story for leading
up to Christmas day. Advent means that it is the traditional countdown
from December 1 until December 24 and it could be the way that used by
older people to teach children about Christmas story. It could also be
the place to attach a gift such as small trinket or candy to each day of
the advent in order to make them excited with Christmas. While you
could find out this thing in store, however you could make a very simple
calendar that provide the years of happy memories in Christmas season.
Here is the way to make it.
Make sure that you do well preparation especially for the main things
you should have such as scissors, cardstock and also printer. First, it
is needed for you to enlarge the tree template that is in the resource
section of the article you found so that you have to twice its size.
Later, you have to print it onto some cardstock and then cut out by
using scissors. Second, trace two copies of the template that is on the
3/8 inch of plywood board by using carpenter’s pencil so that you could
cut it out with a jigsaw. In this step, you have to take your time when
you are cutting it out to proper way round all the sides to make wooden advent calendar.
Third, you could make a mark that is 24 holes, 12 on the each side of
front to the tree by using carpenter’s pencil. You could space them out
as even as you could do. Now, the next step you need to do is drilling.
Drill through the holes and be careful because you need to drill it
around 1/8 inches. Make sure that you do not do something wrong there.
Coloring is needed; you could paint the tree green by using green
poster paint and also paint sponge. Try to leave the tree in order to
dry it overnight. Create 4 images by using your photo editing program
while you are waiting the tree to be dried. You could use family
pictures or images about the specific meaning. Make the images which are
closed as possible to 11/2 inch square so that you could place a number
1-24 onto each image within the right order as you want. Print the
image and rub all the images to craft plywood by using rubbing utensil.
Cut 1/8 inch wood pegs to ½ inch pieces and glue the wood peg to the
back of each image. The last is placing the images onto the tree within
the random places for wooden advent calendar.
