A physical Advent calendar
A shop calendar is manufactured and mailed. This one is a PDF. Keep the starter lines and you can finish in a few minutes, then print it at home.
A printable Advent calendar for your family
A printable Advent calendar, made with your child's photo and name
Create 24 personalized activity cards. Edit everything for free. When it looks right, download a high-resolution PDF and print it at home.
Digital download only. No physical item will be shipped. One-time purchase. No subscription.
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High-resolution PDF: $7
For adults creating a keepsake for their family. Children do not need an account — and cannot create one here.
Generated PDF
These images are renders of a PDF made by the same generator as a paid download. The sample name is Sam, the activities are the starters, and no picture was added. The beige window is the empty placeholder.
How it works
- Add an optional photo and your child's first name
- Edit 24 simple parent-child activities (or keep our starters)
- Preview a low-resolution, watermarked PDF for free
- Pay once to download the complete high-resolution file in A4 or US Letter
What you get
- 24 numbered cards with cut marks
- Your photo and name on every card (if you add them)
- A print-at-home instruction page
- A4 (210 × 297 mm) or US Letter (8.5 × 11 in)
- No shipping. No monthly fee.
Print requirements
- Paper
- A4 (210 × 297 mm) or US Letter (8.5 × 11 in). Print at 100% scale. The two sizes are laid out separately.
- Weight
- Ordinary home-printer paper works. Cardstock around 200–220 gsm is nicer when the printer can take it.
- Cutting
- Cut along the dashed marks. They sit outside each card. The cards stay separate, so there is nothing to bind. More detail is on Print help.
How this differs from a bought calendar
An Etsy template
A template sold on Etsy usually keeps its wording. Here you can change all 24 activities, the name, and the photo, and preview before you pay.
$7 once
Editing and the watermarked preview are free. The high-resolution PDF is a single $7 charge. It does not start a subscription.
24 starter activities
These are the lines already in the editor. Keep them, or rewrite any day.
- Write a kindness note for someone at home
- Make a mug of hot cocoa together
- Read a short winter story out loud
- Draw a Christmas tree and hang it on the fridge
- Video-call or call a relative just to say hello
- Bake simple cookies, or make a no-bake treat
- Cut out paper snowflakes and tape them on a window
- Take a neighborhood walk to look at the lights
- Build a pillow fort and tell a favorite memory
- Choose a toy or book to donate together
- Learn a short carol and sing it in the kitchen
- Make a homemade ornament from paper or string
- Write one wish for the year ahead
- Watch the sunset or look at the evening sky
- Play a board game or a card game as a family
- List five things you are grateful for this year
- Have a living-room dance to holiday music
- Prepare a small, kind surprise for a neighbor if it feels appropriate
- Look through family photos and tell a story about one
- Do a fifteen-minute tidy-up playlist together
- Make a paper chain and add one link each remaining day
- Share one favorite moment from this year
- Plan Christmas Eve together — food, story, or lights
- Write a short letter to your future selves and tuck it away
Guides
Price
Edit and preview: Free
Complete high-resolution PDF: $7 one-time
Taxes may apply at checkout, depending on your location. If the PDF is unreadable, the Refund page explains how to ask for that charge back.
Privacy in one sentence
You edit on your device. We only handle your photo after a successful payment, long enough to build your PDF, then delete it on the schedule described in Privacy.