Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar description

Spend Christmas in a magnificent stately home in the Edwardian era, with 25 days of seasonal games, animated stories, festive activities, and hidden surprises!

Every day you’ll enter our fabulous Edwardian country mansion to discover a new surprise. Relax in the grand drawing-room, stroll through the extensive gardens, watch the bustle below stairs as the domestic staff prepare the house for Christmas Day. Our Advent Calendar has more aesthetic games and interactive activities than ever before!

IN OUR 2023 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN

● Interactive main scene set in an English country estate, c.1910
● A grand drawing-room for you to decorate and enjoy
● Over 30 gifts to unwrap!
● A new animated story or other amusement every day
● 25 animals hidden in the scene, one to find each day
● A variety of books to curl up with
● Loads of fun Christmas games and seasonal activities

COSY GAMES

● Our brilliant Teddy Skiing game is back!
● Decorate your Christmas biscuits
● Set the table for a grand Christmas Dinner
● Spend a cosy afternoon with our jigsaw puzzles
● An assortment of memory games
● Two varieties of Patience/Solitaire - Spider and Klondike
● Challenge yourself with our Marble Solitaire game
● Plus, of course our popular Match Three and 10x10 games

FESTIVE ACTIVITIES

● Decorate the Christmas tree in the grand drawing-room
● The original version of our Snowflake Maker is back!
● Fun model train game
● Dress paper dolls in Edwardian costume
● Create your own needlework, wreath, or tapestry
● Make a beautiful flower arrangement

CHRISTMAS BOOKS

● A glimpse into Edwardian Christmas traditions
● A beautiful fine art book
● Fascinating stories behind each of the 25 daily animations
● Mouth-watering recipes from Edwardian times

WHAT IS AN ADVENT CALENDAR?

A traditional Advent Calendar is a Christmas scene printed on cardboard, with little paper windows - one for each day of Advent - which open to reveal further Christmas scenes, so the user can count the days to Christmas. Our digital Advent Calendar is much more exciting, of course, because the main scene and the daily surprises all come alive with music and animation!

Strictly, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve, but most modern Advent Calendars - ours included - start the Christmas countdown on 1st December. We also depart from tradition by including Christmas Day itself!