Explore our wide selection of toy Advent calendars: they’re a great way to build anticipation for the winter holidays! These exciting Christmas countdown calendars make terrific gifts: they include a toy for each of 24 days leading up to Christmas Day. Choose from some of kids’ favourite series and cool characters: the PAW Patrol Advent calendar; the Playmobil Advent Calendar featuring NHL toys; the Disney Advent Calendar featuring Frozen toys; the Marvel Advent Calendar featuring the Avengers; and best-sellers like the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, the LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar, the LEGO City Advent Calendar, and the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar. Give a toy Advent calendar as a great get-excited Christmas gift!
Know a kid who loves a big reveal?
From the first day of Advent or the first day of December, an advent calendar is the perfect gift for teen girls curious kids can open one door each day to reveal a fun toy or in some cases, a sweet treat! The top toy Advent calendars are designed to build to a big finish, with each item or buildable toy becoming part of a festive play set or diorama. This surprise-a-day Christmas calendar format is a cool activity and gift for teen boys to share on social media as kids reveal each toy! It’s also a unique exercise in delayed gratification – it’s so much fun and a perfect gift idea to anticipate the big reveal each day (hopefully kids can resist the temptation to break all the doors down in one go!) and to build the excitement leading up to the festive end-result. In particular, the Playmobil Advent Calendar and the many varieties of LEGO Advent Calendars have a cool creative element, too, as kids have to build many of the daily toys for the final play set.
Prepare to celebrate with kids’ faves!
Dial up the excitement and anticipation of the holidays with top-selling tea advent calendar built around your kids’ favourite movies, shows, series and characters! Preschoolers will be thrilled to reveal a surprise pup or rescue accessory each day in their PAW Patrol Advent calendar! Hockey fans will love opening a door each day to find what sporty surprise awaits in their Playmobil Advent calendar featuring NHL toys. And builder-kids of all kinds will enjoy the daily mystery of LEGO Advent Calendars from their favourite series: droids and spacecraft in the LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar; pets and pals in the LEGO Friends Advent Calendar; magical creatures and characters in the LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar; and fun Christmas stocking filler village accessories in the LEGO City Advent Calendar. There’s a cool Christmas countdown calendar for Barbie fans, crafty kids, dinosaur devotees, and many other fandoms! The final play set, diorama or craft often makes fun Christmas countdown décor.
It's all about anticipation
Advent calendars are a wonderful way to build excitement for the winter holidays – for the whole family. Grownups can help play up the suspense and document the daily reveal and share pics and reels on social media, or privately and directly with friends and family they may be unable to be with over the holidays. Older kids can even create cool videos over the course of the holiday countdown, building to the big day and later using the impressive final toy play set or décor piece. It’s a fun way to spark kids’ imaginations and pose creative challenges!
Toy Advent Calendar FAQs
What is an Advent calendar?
An Advent calendar is a method of counting down to Christmas Day, usually designed with 24 doors, each of which conceals a small treat or toy, to be opened daily, usually starting December 1.
How to use an Advent calendar?
Most Advent calendars are used as a daily countdown to Christmas Day: on Dec 1, kids open the door marked with a “1”to reveal the first small treat or toy; and the “2” door the next day, and so on, until all the treats have been revealed.
Do you start at 1 or 24 on the Advent calendar?
Most Advent calendars are designed to start at “1,” which is opened on Dec 1, “2” on Dec 2 and so on, until Christmas, when all the treats have been revealed.
What is the best Advent calendar?
Some of the best-selling Advent calendars include a variety of LEGO Advent Calendars from popular series including
- LEGO Star Wars,
- LEGO Harry Potter,
- LEGO City, and
- LEGO Friends
- PAW Patrol
- Playmobil Advent calendars.
What goes inside an Advent calendar?
Many Advent calendars contain a series of small treats or toys, particularly calendars designed for children as a fun way to count down the days until Christmas.
Where to buy an Advent calendar?
Shop at Toys “R” Us for a fun selection of Advent calendars designed for kids to count down to Christmas from Dec 1, with a daily surprise treat or toy.
Why is it called an Advent calendar?
Advent calendars are so named because they serve as a countdown of the Advent season: the 24 days from Dec 1 leading up to Christmas Day; versions designed for children often contain a fun daily surprise treat or toy.