Advent Calendar

Who doesn’t like advent calendars…

• Advent calendars are used to count down to Christmas.
• Advent calendars typically have openings that may hide pictures, poems, stories and/or small gifts and food items.
• The origins of the advent calendar comes from 19th century Germany, were Lutherans counted down the first 24 days of December.
• Some advent calendars count down to Christmas by lighting candles and are called advent candles.
• The first advent calendar was produced in 1851 and was handmade.

• Although advent calendars normally have 24 openings, some calendars have up to 31 or 32, for New Years Day.
• Although advent calendars are usually used for Christmas, sometimes advent calendars are used for other celebrations or long awaited activities.
• Advent calendars have ‘advent’ in their name since they are used at the start of the Advent, the Christmas season.
• The first printed advent calendar was printed between 1902 – 1908.
• To conserve paper, the production of advent calendars ceased during World War II.

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Bibliography:
Advent Calendar 12 December 2012, Wikipedia,  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar>

Verlag, R n.d., History of the Advent Calendar, Sellmer Verlag,  <http://www.sellmer-verlag.de/history.htm>