All about the Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar
I think some of the very best traditions are the simplest.
One of those traditions in our house is the Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar. 
It’s a digital advent calendar and it costs $8 (it’s less expensive if you buy more than 2).
It’s unbelievable to me that it’s so inexpensive because it is SO beautifully done.
Each year, there is a new location (this year’s is a Nordic village, while last year’s was in Cotswold. They’ve been set in Edinburgh and London and plenty of other places.
Every day, there is a new little video or activity and it becomes available on that day. You might wrap gifts, which then appear in the shop window for the rest of the season. Or you might watch penguins swim around in the London Zoo.
The music is classical and absolutely beautiful and the sound of it has become the soundtrack of Christmas to me over the past ten Christmases.
My in-laws gifted us one for the first time when Ella was one and it was truly one of the best parts of Christmas that year (you can see a little video of her watching it and dancing along to it here – I’ll treasure this video forever!)
Every year since then, they’ve sent us this darling digital advent calendar and my girls look forward to it all year long.
After that first year, my mom started giving it to both of my sisters for their boys to enjoy.
It’s such a nice, quiet activity each day and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
(It also makes a great, affordable neighbor gift!).
You can get a little sneak peek of this year’s on her website (and yes, the website looks like it hasn’t been redesigned since 1997. I promise the actual calendar is spectacular).
If you try it out this year, let me know how you like it! I hope you’ll love it as much as our family does.
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Photos by Heather Mildenstein
We love this calendar! We’ve been doing it for about 3-4 years and I’m pretty sure I found it through you. It’s great to send out to friends living far away. It’s something we look forward to every year.
Do you think it would be good for tweens or is it geared to a younger crowd?
I think it’s pretty fun for all ages.
What would you say the earliest age is for this?
Ella LOVED it at 18 months.
Thank you so much for this rec!! I got copies for my mom, my sister and me, and we’ve already had so much fun setting up our cottages and texting back and forth. Such fun and I’d never heard of it before yesterday.
My grandma has been getting these advent calendars for me for the past lot of years, I’m 15 now and I still love them!! Me and my little sister really look forward to it every year. Also it’s a very fair price point, only like 8 dollars this year and before I remember it was 20 or something, much more. I’d 100% recommend!!!