Virtual Advent Calendars for Christmas 2009!

02 Dec 2009 3 Comments

by madsilence in Art, cooking, Craft, Creativity, Culture, Holidays, Life, Music, Recipes, Websites Tags: 2009, Advent, advent calendar, Christmas, xmas

It’s that time of year again – the countdown to Christmas has started!  And soon after we hit the “first day” mark all the kids will be wiggling in excitement as Santa makes his list of good and bad girls and boys.  One of my favorite things about this time of year is my Advent calender – as a kid I rushed in the door from school, tossed all my stuff on the floor and carefully opened that little cardboard door each day, waiting to see what cute picture and (delicious!!) piece of chocolate was hidden behind it.  And while this year I found German advent calenders in our local import store (OMG!  My inner child is so doing a jig right now!) I still want MORE DOOR TO OPEN!  We did a little feature on virtual Advent Calendars last year… but here are this year’s choice picks!

Musical Advent Calendars:

• BBC Radio3‘s Musical Advent Calendar: a different Bach piece every day!
• A Holiday Video Countdown to Christmas.
• The Guardian’s Musical Advent Calendar: “Blur reunited, Michael Jackson died and we made a graph out of new bands … it’s been a busy old 2009. So sit back and relive the year in music with our interactive advent calendar.”
• 8bit Xmas Music Calendar 2008: full of chiptune classic videogame inspired carols!
• Phlow Magazine’s Mix Tape Advent Calendar.

Foodie Advent Calendars:

• Lexiophile’s International Recipe Advent Calendar: new recipes from new countries every day!
• Made in the UK Recipe Advent Calendar.

Art Related:

• National Museums Liverpool Advent Calendar: each day holds a Xmas related piece of art.
• The Tate Modern’s Advent Calendar for Children [thanks ETCology!].
• Non-Dairy Diary‘s Tiny House Ornament Advent Calendar:  1 cute house to make every day!  Check out the 2008 version too!
• The Artisans in Miniature (AIM) Advent Calendar:  Each day open another door and find instructions for a tiny Christmas craft project… day one is a crochet project for tiny snowflakes!
• Garnstudio and Drops Design Crafting Calendar:  Full of free knitting patterns for Xmas presents!
• Electric December Advent Calendar:  “Watershed’s original end of year online showcase of creative talent. Electric December 09 has been coordinated by an international team of young people from Europe, including Bristolians involved in eShed (a Watershed project for 14-21 year olds who love film).”

Just Fun/Awesome/Interesting:

• DirtDirt’s Animated Advent Calendar
• Hubble Space Telescope Picture Advent Calendar 2009:  A different picture from Hubble every day!  Check out their 2008 version too.
• 24Ways Geek Advent Calendar: “24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.”
• Westminster Libraries Advent Calendar:  “As usual it is packed with nuggets of information, hints and tips on all things Christmassy.”
• German Advent Calender:  Fun facts about Xmas in Germany and around the world, in English and German.
• Advent Calendar on Sustainable Development:  case studies of sustainable development with ideas for green Xmas presents.
• Intute Advent Calendar:  Presenting interesting research topics every day of December.  I especially like the post on the newest Lord of the Rings fan film and 17th century mince pie.

Religious:

• Paperless Christmas:  A video version of the Christmas story?  Interesting…
• St. Margaret Mary’s Advent Calendar: with beautiful image and Bible quote for each day.

~MS the Younger

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