Reindeer Advent Calendar

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As you all know, I love an Advent Calendar!  Here's my take on it for this year - a little modern...a little Scandinavian.  Very simple to make, you can bust it out in a couple of hours...and who doesn't want a reindeer carrying presents hanging out in their house for the month of December!

MATERIALS

2'x4' 1/2" Plywood

2' length of 1"x6"

L brackets

Cup hook

Paint

Twine

24 small boxes (oh yeah, and gifts)

Butcher paper

Numbers (I cut mine out from a sheet of scrapbooking paper I had)

STEPS

Draw your shape on the plywood. I freehanded mine, but you can also find plenty of deer/moose line art online just print it out and copy it onto your plywood.  Size totally depends on where you plan to put it.  I made mine the full size of the sheet of plywood for impact, but a much smaller one would be great as well

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Paint it white and when dry, mount it to the 1"x6" using the L brackets.

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Wrap all your gifts in the brown paper, glue the numbers to the front and tie with twine, leaving a foot of twine hanging loose.

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Screw the cup hook into the back of the reindeer

Christmas, DIY