Posted By: Bradley Foulds
Dec 15, 2017
- Advent calendars are used to countdown to Christmas.
- Underneath the windows it has chocolate. As well as that they hide pictures, poems and stories.
- It comes (origins) from Germany. In the 19th Century, Lutherans counted down the first 24 days of December.
- At Christmas, it keeps track of days by making chalk marks on their door.
- Advent calendars and putting up a small religious picture to mark each day, were ways of counting down.
- Advent is the start of Christmas season.
- It starts from four Sundays, before Christmas.
- Windows of calendars are opened everyday leading up to Christmas.
- You see pretty pictures or find some chocolate.
- Advent calendars, we buy today were first produced in the 1900’s in Germany.
- Eventually advent calendars contained religious pictures and had chocolate.
- It was popular for years, were stopped when WW2 started, due to paper, cardboard and chocolate, which is being limited when war was over in 1944.
- Advent calendars picked by back up, but didn’t contain chocolate.
- End of 1950, chocolate advent calendars reappeared.
- Ten years later many countries uses advent calendars to countdown days to Christmas.
great I never knew advent calenders started in germany!
this was a brilliant article i know a lot about advent calendars now
i love the chocolate but really it is about the birth of christ
i love advent calendars my baby sister keeps on eating my chocalats
Great article. My Advent calendar has jokes in instead of chocolates.