Learn how to make a DIY wall mounted advent calendar that will be treasured by your family for many years.

I’ve been buying chocolate advent calendars for years, however I never display them because they are tacky.  

We usually hide them on top of the fridge and take them down each morning for the girls to open their special doors and then we place the calendars back in their hiding spot.

However, this year we decided to put and end to the chocolate advent calendars, instead… we created our very own DIY Advent Calendar.

Oh and not just an advent calendar but a huge 4 feet wall mounted advent calendar.

UPDATE – We painted our kitchen and our Rustic Wall Mounted Advent Calendar looks so good!

It’s really GORGEOUS!!

I wish I would have been able to take jaw dropping pictures, but there’s absolutely no sun today… just a grey snowy day.  Trust me, it’s a lot nicer than it seems in the pictures.  

I’m in AWWW every time I go in the kitchen and I see it mounted on the wall. 

The wall mounted advent calendar looks wonderful in our newly painted kitchen next to the wood window cornice we made!

P.S. We made a new advent calendar this year!! We made a Fabric Advent Calendar with pockets wall hanging!

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First Step: Gabrielle, Emanuelle and I started off by stenciling numbers onto 24 muslin bags.

Advent Bags

Supplies:

• 24 Muslin Treat Bags – The bags we bought were 3″x4″.
• Stencil
• Red & Green Paint
• Foam Brush
• Wax Paper

Instructions:

Step 1: Cut little pieces of wax paper to insert in each of the muslin bags. This is to prevent paint soaking through to the other side of the bag.

Step 2: Place your stencil on your bags and use a foam brush to paint on the appropriate numbers.

I painted the odd numbers in red and the even numbers in green.

And voilà, you have yourself some advent bags to put in little treats.

After the advent treat bags were finished, Sébastien and I started working on the advent calendar.  

The advent calendar is a very easy and quick project… which I LOVE!!  

Oh and Thank You to my Dad for coming over Tuesday after work to help me glue and attach the pieces.  :)

Wall Mounted Advent Calendar

Supplies:

• Wood (check cut list below)
• Nails
• 25 Antique Nails (or rusty nails)
• Wood Glue
• Hammer
• Star of your choice. (The star I used was something I bought at a little store in Stowe, Vermont. It’s 12″.)
• Felt Pads (what you put under chair legs)
• Wine Corks (2)
• Hanging Kit from hardware store
• Christmas Ornament

Wood cut list:

• 1x: 48″ long by 2.5″ wide
• 1x: 32″ long by 2.5″ wide
• 1x: 28″ long by 2.5″ wide
• 1x: 24″ long by 2.5″ wide
• 1x: 20″ long by 2.5″ wide
• 1x: 16″ long by 2.5″ wide

Instructions:

Step 1: Cut all your pieces of wood.

Step 2: Hammer in your antique nails onto the 5 shortest pieces of wood. Make sure you leave them sticking out so you can hang your bags.

• 3 nails on the first piece.
• 4 nails on the second piece.
• 5 nails on the third piece.
• 6 nails on the fourth piece.
• 7 nails on the fifth piece.

Step 3: Glue and nail each piece onto the 48” long piece of wood.  

Make sure you place them all centered and 5.5” apart and that you go from shortest to longest.

Step 4: Read the instructions of your hanging kit and place the appropriate piece onto your advent calendar and the other piece onto the wall.

Step 5: Turn over your advent calendar and place felt pads onto the back to protect your wall from scratches.

Step 6: Glue two wood spools (or wine corks) onto the back of the 32” piece of wood. This is to prevent the advent calendar from swaying side to side.

As you can see, I also added a piece of white felt behind the wood spool to protect the wall.

Step 7: Attach your star onto the top of the advent calendar.

Step 8: Hang it up onto the wall.

Step 9: Hang your advent treat bags and place your Christmas ornament onto the last nail.

Step 10: Put treats inside the advent bags.

And, what do you think of it??

Wall Mounted DIY Wall Christmas Tree

The girls are IN LOVE and they can’t wait to see what is in each bag!!

And I’m soooo PROUD OF IT!!!  It’s going to be something we’ll get to keep forever!! Our very own DIY Family Heirloom.

If you want a different take on advent bags, these felt Christmas stockings are a great option! Just make them a little bigger to put treats in them.

P.S. We just made another super cool project! Check it out:

Outdoor Christmas Countdown Marquee Sign

Glass Mounted Christmas Countdown

Mini Christmas Countdown – Christmas Craft for Kids

Have a FABULOUS day and Merry Christmas!!