Crayola Advent Calendar
£24.99
The Crayola Advent Calendar 2026 hides 24 craft activities behind 24 doors, a Crayola tool and a matching holiday project each day, with no chocolate and no filler toys. Everything is ready-to-use and mess-free, no glue or scissors, so a small child can start alone, and the supplies keep working long after the last door. The standout is the make-and-keep idea: children end December with decorations and little gifts, not an empty box. Best for girls and boys aged 3 and up who would rather make something than eat a sweet.
AI Summary
- 24 craft activities, one per door, pairing a Crayola tool with a holiday project instead of a chocolate
- Mess-free, no glue or scissors, each day ready to use with nothing extra to buy
- Make-and-keep projects: gifts and decorations children can keep or give away
- Ages 3 and up, girls and boys, with supplies that carry on well past December
- £24.99 across 24 doors, about £1.04 a day; Crayola does not publish a contents value
Crayola Advent Calendar 2026: 24 mess-free craft activities, one per day
The Crayola Advent Calendar 2026 puts a craft activity behind each of its 24 doors instead of a chocolate. A child opens a numbered window a day and finds a Crayola item with a matching thing to make, from a quick seasonal decoration to a small gift. It is the same 24-Day Arts and Crafts format Crayola has run before, returning unchanged for this season.
Every day is built to work on its own. Each project is ready-to-use and mess-free, with no glue, scissors or extra supplies needed, so a three-year-old can get going without an adult setting up first. That matters more than it sounds on a December morning.
What’s inside the Crayola craft advent calendar
Twenty-four activities, and that is the whole of it: Crayola art tools paired with holiday craft projects, no sweets and no filler toys. Kids make things they can keep or give as gifts, and the supplies carry on working long after the last door, which is the real argument for a craft calendar over a chocolate one.
Crayola does not publish a stated contents value, so there is no headline figure to weigh the box against. What can be measured is the daily rate: at the £24.99 launch price spread across 24 doors, each day works out at roughly £1.04, a shade above a mid-range chocolate calendar but with art supplies that outlast the month. The door-by-door list sits in the SPOILER tab.
Same calendar as last year, a small price move
This is a straight reconduction: same box, same 24 activities, same presentation as the previous edition, so there is no new theme or reshuffled contents to report. The one change worth flagging is the price, up from £24.49 to £24.99, a 50p rise that barely registers against the calendar itself.
If you bought it before, you are buying the same thing again. If you are new to it, knowing it is a returning, settled product is useful in its own right: there is no first-year guesswork about whether the activities land for small hands.
Our verdict on the Crayola Advent Calendar 2026
What wins first is the premise: craft, not chocolate, and craft a child can do without help. For a household that would rather have 24 small making sessions than 24 sweets, the Crayola calendar does exactly that, and the mess-free, no-glue promise is the bit parents will actually feel.
Where it is honest to set expectations: these are everyday Crayola supplies, not a hoard of exclusive kit, and with no stated contents value you are buying the format and the daily surprise rather than a bargain against a known total. As I’d put it, ‘it’s a countdown that leaves something behind, which most chocolate calendars can’t claim’. Best for girls and boys aged 3 and up who like colouring and making; less relevant for a child chasing a collectable or a licensed toy.
=> The full day-by-day breakdown is in the SPOILER tab.
Where to buy the Crayola Advent Calendar 2026
This calendar is available at Amazon. There is no discount code at the moment. Compare the live offers at the top of the page.
Crayola, colour as a first language
Crayola has been colouring in childhoods from the United States since 1885, and built its name on crayons, markers and craft kits made with non-toxic materials safe for young hands. The brand’s whole idea is that making things is how children work out how to express themselves, with tools cheap and sturdy enough to be handed over freely.
The craft advent calendar is that idea boiled down to 24 days: take the everyday Crayola kit a child already trusts, and turn the run-up to Christmas into a daily reason to make something.
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