Custom Advent Calendar

Description

What to Consider When Creating Your Advent Calendar Box

It’s fun to have a countdown with some surprise to go with each date. A customized advent calendar does just that, it offers a little box, a small plastic bag or slide for each day of the season.

A good calendar will not only be entertaining, it will also be a useful tool to keep all the components on the table and not in harm’s way until it’s time for the opening. Compartments must be intact, there should be no possibility of the treat or trinkets moving around and the structure should be sturdy until handled by the family when the last door is opened.

It can be integrated into our other custom product boxes, so that brands can go on with their existing packaging line and start making a seasonal product without having to start from scratch.

Those that are most adorably designed and fun will be the best for advent calendars.

The type of material also determines the longevity of the calendar as well as its appearance, particularly when used for containing small food items, treats and/or fragile jewelry.

Materials

Wrapped treats packaged with food-safe wrapping are very common and can be wrapped with coated paperboard or SBS paperboard. Calendars are for one year, so rigid paperboards will work well.

Advent Calendar Packaging Examples

Advent Calendar doesn’t have to be cookie cutter. The most popular types we create are:

Traditional Multi Door Advent Calendar

24 (or 25) day structure, doors/flaps made as one large panel. Retail shelf and gift ready.

Mini Advent Calendar

A smaller version, perfect for gifting small, providing sample size pieces, or using for promotional programs where a whole calendar isn’t needed.

Small Boxes to Go Along With the Advent Calendar

One-off units that can be combined together, mixed and matched to allow brands to create custom sets.

Make Your Own Advent Calendar Box

As part of the construction, there would be a single large box, made up of a number of smaller boxes to make it more durable and sturdy than a flat panel design.

Ways to Use Advent Calendars

• More promotions to drive more store traffic during certain times of the year.
• Retail promotions, such as sales, during holiday periods to stimulate sales.
• Corporate giving for clients, partners or staff.
• Seasonal bonuses that are only available for a set period of time (Subscription Box Add-ons).
• Full festive stands and in-store holiday displays in special boxes.
• Personal and family giving to a more unique holiday tradition.

Sometimes retailers will use these in conjunction with the custom boxes that we make, to provide a consistent, branded look for all their holiday products, rather than the calendar itself.

Printing & Personalization

Each compartment is a miniature canvas, making advent calendars an opportunity for more marketing than many types of packages.

The branding potential of advent calendars is greater than most packaging – each compartment is a mini canvas. The extra surface area can provide additional flexibility for brands that they would not otherwise have for a box.

Printing

The advantage of digital printing is that it has a short turnaround time and that it creates high-quality prints, which makes it suitable for smaller print runs or designs with a high level of detail.

Offset printing is more suitable for large retail runs, mass printing in colour as it helps to maintain colour consistency and accuracy from one printing unit to another.

Design & Personalization

A custom advent calendar can incorporate different messages, names or theme graphics for each individual day and can have a more personal and thoughtful appearance for the calendar, perfect for gifting to the family or for limited edition retail runs.

However, an individualised advent calendar for corporate gifting may require a different solution, and feature the same branding across all the compartments, instead of a different one at each one of them. With a frequent surprise, this will help the company to stay visible with each door, thus creating a more impactful brand.

This level of customization matches naturally with our custom retail packaging solutions to help brands maintain the seasonal product line’s visual consistency while not appearing as if it is a totally different product line.

Finishing

• Satin: a slightly shiny finish, ideal for minimal and elegant designs and/or high quality finishes.
• Gloss: enhanced and more celebratory look, perfect for more colourful and outgoing holiday branding.
• Foil: Attention grabbing, high quality foil for logos, numbers or decorative use.
• Spot UV: Makes a design more clear, more organized, illuminates a part of the design, a part of the numbers, a part of the compartments.

Why Choose Us

• Low MOQ, suitable for small brands, or test runs for the seasons.
• Competitive holiday (larger quantity) wholesale prices.
• Great time management, fulfilling seasonal needs in a timely manner.
• Completely design free, and no extra fees when using custom layouts and compartment artwork.
• Structural designs from flat panel to boxed compartment designs that are reliable.
• From initial concept to end delivery dedication of a support team.

It’s time to start counting down to the holidays!

Looking forward to the holiday season? Please give us a call today to place an advent calendar quote and we will create your brand, budget and customer’s advent calendar!