Pimp That Snack
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Advent Calendar

by Charlotte, Kirsty, Nicola, Reshma and See Yun 7 photos Rated 43% 441 votes when voting closed

Introduction: We decided to pimp a festive snack.
Although advent calendars are fun, it is slightly
disappointing to open a door each morning and find one
small square of chocolate. For this reason, we decided
to go LARGE.

1: Our tools. A combination, Tesco and
Sainsbury’s stationery, Poundland wrapping paper, old
cardboard boxes and of course, the chocolate!

Two large Cadbury Dairy Milk bars, Christmas wrapping paper and a craft knife on cut cardboard sheets

2: Has Christmas come early? This was our second
attempt at getting the paper straight on our advent
calendar. Lucky we bought a 12m roll of wrapping
paper!

Two people laying out a large sheet of Christmas-tree wrapping paper across the floor

3: Here we put our artistic skills to the test.
By this time the wine had flowed, and the numbers were
getting wonky.

Kneeling on the floor to mark door numbers on the tree-patterned paper covering the cardboard calendar

4: Can we cut it? Yes we can.

Kneeling on the floor, marking out big numbered doors on the wrapping paper in black marker

5: The weirdest thing we’ve ever done – sticking
Velcro on chocolate.

Hands cutting large slabs of chocolate into chunks on a white board, more bars stacked behind

6: Our masterpiece.

Four people holding up the finished chest-high advent calendar covered in hand-drawn numbered doors

7: Leading the way for childhood obesity.

Close-up of one door opened to reveal a whole bar of chocolate behind it

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