Silver Plate Tray Advent Calendar

This is an easy craft and you will be proud to display this advent calendar year after year.

Print out Christmas Tree and Numbers. Use a glue stick to attach them.

Decorate 24 buttons and attach them to magnets.

The buttons are on magnets and silverplate isn’t magnetic! So I had to apply a sheet of metal to the back where the Christmas Tree image is attached and apply 24 magnets to the back of the tray. (Your local hardware store has metal sheets. Bring a magnet to find out which one will work.)

Use hot glue to attach the sheet metal to the back.

After the paper numbers are attached to the tray, place a magnet on the number. Then apply glue on the magnet that goes on the bottom side of the tray. Hold it under the tray and the magnetic field of the magnet on top will keep the magnet with the glue on it underneath in place until it dries. I used Aleene’s Tacky glue.

https://whimsiville.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/chalkboard-numbers-for-advent.pdf

https://whimsiville.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/christmastree_wingsofwhimsy-adjustedpdf.pdf