I ran across this tutorial for an easy Advent Calendar (
https://bluecricketdesign.blogspot.com/2009/11/25-days-of-christmas-count-down.html). It's not as cute as some of the others, but it would be really inexpensive to make & easy to personalize it to fit your family. Just thought I'd pass it along after our discussion last week.
Re: Easy Advent Calendar
Mama to William Nathaniel - October 7, 2006
And Natalie Frances - June 24, 2010
Oh my goodness...I've become a craft blog junkie. I love looking at all the projects & I've bookmarked about a million that I want to try myself.