Super Easy Advent Calendar!

My sister and I always had an advent calendar when we were little to count down the days until christmas. Ive been wanting to make one for Mason, but never could find one that wasnt all "Santa threw up on this..all out CHRISTMAS-Y". Once again...pinterest to the rescue! I found this adorable one and it was SO EASY to make. The only sewing required was in fastening the buttons to the felt tree. I used mostly stuff I already had, but felt is amazingly cheap anyway so this can be done fairly inexpensively.

So here is a quick run down of what I did to make this...you can always add your own twist and probably make something a little better quality. But I was high on ambition and low on time so here is what I did...

Take a large piece of white felt (however large you want the end product to be...
Cut out a large tree shape in your color choice...
Sew 24 buttons onto the tree..
Fasten tree to white felt ( I used hot glue but you can always sew it too!)
Cut out 24 pieces of felt all the same size for your pockets to hold the ornaments...
Hot glue the pockets on 3 sides to the white felt...
Paint on some fancy numbers and add a star and trunk to your tree..
I just bought some mini tree ornaments at walmart to put in the pockets...they were 6 for .97 cents :)

The colors didnt come out very accurate...but I used green, red, light blue, brown and mustard yellow felt..