10 Best Advent Calendars for Kids & Toddlers in 2024

The Byers' Choice Christmas Tree is a timeless advent calendar that would undeniably make a great impression with anyone who receives it as a holiday present. It is a sturdy box that will hold Christmas surprises for many years to come.

Design

This is made of high-quality wood and will last for many years and generations. It is exquisitely adorned and very colorful.

Entertainment Value

This gorgeously decorated Christmas tree is an advent calendar to be enjoyed by the whole family, but kids will delight in the 24 numbered doors that hide special surprises.

Creativity

Unlike the other advent calendar, we feature that come with items in the sections, this one allows you to choose your own gifts to put behind the doors. Hide presents for children in the 24 sections that they can open one at a time before Christmas.

Ease of Use

A wonderful storage box is provided to keep the calendar in when it is not in use during the rest of the year. If you are looking for an item to keep from year to year that your family can treasure, then this is it.

Design

With twenty-four windows your child can start revealing surprises on the first day of December. Amongst the windows are eight different Hot Wheels cars and sixteen accessories. All of the cars are diecast, thus making them durable enough to survive well past the holiday season.

Entertainment Value

Along with the calendar, your child will receive a foldout playmat. Your child will have a blast racing their new cars around the mat as well as around the house. The included accessories can also be used on the mat but are light enough to be carried around the house as well.

Creativity

The packaging and backdrop appropriately fit the festivities as it is decorated with the Christmas theme. The wintery backdrop and playmat will encourage your child to unleash their creativity and engage in pretend play.

Ease of Use

The windows can easily be popped open by smaller hands. Children as young as three will love the experience of unveiling a new surprise every day. Opening the windows and grasping the toys will increase your child’s fine motor skills as well as their hand-eye coordination.

It comes with 24 Little People Friends and some accessories that are holiday-themed. Included are Santa, Mrs. Santa, a reindeer, elf, snowman, cat, dog, Christmas tree, presents and much more.

Design

Fisher-Price has created a wonderful set of objects and people that will help little ones practice their numbers, colors, and counting talents. It will be easy and fun with these colorful pieces and the beautiful calendar.

Entertaining Value

This calendar will build excitement as the special day nears. It is impossible to stay indifferent to it since so many adventurous challengers and adorable little characters are included.

Creativity

It is very cute and colorful, plus the item encourages role-playing, imaginations, and story-telling. Toddlers will develop fine motors skills, hand-eye coordination, and dexterity as they move and grasp the figures and extra pieces.

Ease of Use

Children aged one to five-years-old can play with this colorful advent calendar successfully as they open a door each day leading to Christmas Day to find a special toy.

Start a new Christmas tradition in your home with the Melissa & Doug Countdown to Christmas tree. It is a quite charming way to educate your children about numbers while decorating a tree at the same time.

Design

This advent calendar comes in the form of a 16-inch tall wooden Christmas tree. The wooden base allows the tree to stand freely while also doubling as storage for the ornaments. Both the tree and the ornaments have been painted to represent the holidays.

Entertainment Value

Children ages three to seven can further increase their knowledge of numbers by using the calendar. You can even create fun games using ornaments and numbers to improve their color recognition skills.

Creativity

As your child places the ornaments on the tree they will develop their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity. Only the tree is numbered, thus your child can place the ornaments anywhere they like.

Ease of Use

Each morning in December, your child can pick out a magnetic ornament from the box and place it in the hole with the number that correlates to the date. When Christmas arrives, your child can top the tree with the wooden star ornament.

This advent calendar is constructed of wood and has a stunning night sky background. The doors in the outer frame are numbered to countdown the days last days to Christmas. This can be displayed on a tabletop or wall easily.

Design

This design of the manger scene for an advent calendar is fresh and new. With the doors of placeable objects around the edges of the calendar, the main focus is beautifully framed.

Entertainment Value

There are 24 magnetic nativity figures that are kept in their spaces around the edges of the calendar. As each day passes, another figure may be added to the center manager picture.

Creativity

As kids move the pieces to the center, they will be designing their own version of the manger scene. It promotes creativity, imagination, and designing in children of all ages.

Ease of Use

Children can learn all about the nativity scene that is so important to the purpose of Christmas. With the 24 figures added one at a time, they can easily discover and know the participants of this epic event.

As your child opens each flap they will be given a toy that can be used to create the world of Adventure Bay. Not only will they have fun opening the flaps, but they will have a blast creating new adventures daily revolving around the toys they are given.

Design

The Paw Patrol advent calendar features twenty-four different collectibles behind each numbered door. As the day's progress, your child can use the collectibles to build out Adventure Bay.

Entertainment Value

The high-quality toys will allow your little one to enjoy them even after December is over. The characters are not given out immediately at once, thus your child will remain excited to open the flaps every day.

Creativity

The box opens up to a mini stage which will serve as the perfect platform for your child to build on. The figures behind each flap will stimulate your child’s imagination and encourage them to engage in pretend play.

Ease of Use

The flaps are easy to open which makes this calendar great for fans three and over. The toys are small and compact, thus making it easy for your child to carry them in their pockets or backpack.

With over 70 books and stories to his credit, this creator does not disappoint with this beautiful calendar for kids. Being a perpetual calendar, this item can be used over and over for many years to come.

Design

This whimsical calendar is not only well-designed but timeless and heart-warming as well. It is based on the famous Christmas story Dream Show and is written and illustrated by Eric Carle.

Entertainment Value

As children open the many windows of this calendar and put the objects on the Christmas tree in the scene, they will gain a better understanding of this special season while having fun at the same time.

Creativity

As each day passes when Christmas Day is close, children can open a window to reveal an object to put on the Christmas tree. Once the special day has arrived, they will have a fully decorated tree to awe and cherish.

Ease of Use

All ages of kids love pop-up activities, so this calendar should be a huge hit with your children. Not only they can easily comprehend the system, but they will enjoy the decorating experience.

To keep children very busy as they wait for Santa, get them this advent calendar. They can count down the days and have fun with the numerous ventures included. It consists of 24 crafts with holiday themes that are hidden behind the numbered doors.

Design

It contains 17 holiday-themed coloring projects, some of which as two Model Magic ornaments, three paper ornaments, three finger puppets, a gingerbread house, one-dimensional gift box, and a Christmas tree. This is perfect for the whole family.

Entertainment Value

Each door opens to a Crayola item and activity for kids to do. Children can play with the tools as they like or use them to complete the given activities. The finished products can be enjoyed and given as gifts or kept for timeless family treasures.

Creativity

Each numbered door in this advent calendar contains an activity and a Crayola tool to complete the activity. The tasks promote fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and finger dexterity as kids create and colors the many projects.

Ease of Use

The activities are very colorful and exciting, especially around this magical time of year. This calendar is not meant for toddlers, however, it is not too complex which makes it perfect for kids aged four and older.

Get your child in the holiday spirit with the Playmobil Santa’s Workshop Advent Calendar. If you have purchased a Playmobil advent calendar in previous years, your child can combine the toys and create one big Winter Wonderland.

Design

Each day in December, your child can open a flap and receive a toy that will create Santa’s Workshop. The pieces are designed with great attention to detail and are painted beautifully.

Entertainment Value

After all twenty-four toys have been collected, your child can load them onto the toy sled and help Santa deliver them. In addition to the collectibles, this set also includes a fun backdrop to further set the scene.

Creativity

Not only does the great craftsmanship make each piece stunning but it also enhances the look of the overall scene. Creating Santa’s workshop will stimulate your child’s imagination and unleash their creativity.

Ease of Use

The set includes a booklet that shows which pieces lie behind which door, just in case you want to switch them around. PLAYMOBIL is truly helping you, while you are helping Santa!

Design

This wooden advent calendar is designed beautifully and will easily fit in with your other Christmas decorations. The entire calendar is red and white, however each door features a different pattern. All of the patterns have been hand painted, thus enhancing the beauty of the overall design. The drawers range in sizes, thus providing you with a wide variety of options to fill each day with. Since the drawers arrive empty and the box is composed of wood you can reuse this calendar every Christmas.

Entertainment Value

Since this calendar is not character themed, your child will have a blast discovering a completely different surprise in each box. With this box being durable enough to survive countless Christmas seasons, your child will look forward to the new round of gifts every year. With 24 drawers, they can begin opening on the first day of December.

Creativity

The empty drawers give you the freedom to add practically anything to the drawers. Fill them with candy, art supplies, toys, inspirational quotes, movie tickets, etc. The opportunities for you to get creative with the surprises are endless. In fact, you can even use this for grown-ups and fill it with beauty items, jams, teas, or small bottles of liquor.

Ease of Use

The small silver handles on each door makes the calendar easier to open. All of the boxes are numbered which takes the guessing out of which one to open. Your child can increase their number recognition skills by choosing the door of the corresponding day. The box is lightweight and can be placed on a mantel, table, fireplace, or anywhere else you may desire to put it. The calendar arrives in a Hyggehaus storage box which can be used to safely store the calendar for the other eleven months of the year.