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Christmas – the feast of joy and surprises
The anticipation for Christmas is not only huge for children. Even adults have their bright joy in the pre-Christmas season to beautify the apartment, the house or also the garden with Christmas decoration and colorful light variety. It is only understandable that our smallest can hardly wait until the gifts are under the Christmas tree. So they ask every day when Christmas is finally over.
About the Advent Calendar
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How did the advent calendar come about?
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The Advent calendar in constant change
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An Advent calendar is more than just a calendar
How did the advent calendar come about?
Since time is a difficult-to-grasp size especially for children, ingenious parents were already looking for it in the middle of the 19th century. In the 19th century, a clear method of conveying the remaining days in a clear way until Christmas. For example, 24 pictures were hung with Christmas motifs or 24 chalk lines were painted at a suitable place, whereby a line was deleted every day. In Catholic households, a straw was placed in the manger every day to make the child of Jesus comfortable at Christmas. Elsewhere, a Scandinavian custom was taken over and an Advent candle was lit daily with 24 markings. Partly also self-made advent calendars were used in a wide variety of designs.
Beginning of the 20. The first printed advent calendars came to the market in the form of a Christmas clock or a cut-out sheet. From 1920 advent calendars with foldable doors became more and more established. However, no chocolate was hidden behind the doors, but small pictures. The first chocolate advent calendars came on the market in 1958. Since then, her winning streak has continued to this day.
The Advent calendar in constant change
Even though the chocolate advent calendar can still be found on the shelves of department stores and supermarkets, more and more alternative calendars are becoming more and more popular. In addition to the lively advent calendars that are practiced in many communities and where house windows represent the individual calendar doors, there are now also virtual advent calendars or audio book advent calendars.
On the other hand, there is far more potential in an Advent calendar for setting up than just a small piece of chocolate that is quickly eaten up. Thus, for example, electronic advent calendars arouse interest in electronics and the fun of handicrafts with each door. Valuable basic knowledge is taught and with each day the confidence in one's own skills grows a little bit more. Especially when, for example, the FM-radio-advent calendar plays the most beautiful Christmas songs on Christmas Eve.
And for those who want to explore the Internet of Things (IoT), there are Arduino™ Advent Calendar or Raspberry Pi Advent Calendar with many interesting programming experiments. But advent calendars are not only interesting for children and young people. Meanwhile, tool-advent calendars with their great surprises are great fun and fun for big and small home-workers.
An Advent calendar is more than just a calendar
Today, Advent calendars are no longer just the task of displaying the remaining days until Christmas. More than ever, Advent calendars offer the opportunity to work together with your loved ones at home or to experiment while promoting individual skills.
And with every door that opens, you think of the dear person who has given you this great joy.