Advent |
| One December a mother cut a cake into 24 pieces and put them onto a piece of cardboard. Her little boy got to eat one piece each day until Christmas. |
| That little boy grew up to be a printer. He always remembered what his mother had done, and in 1903 he produced the first Advent Calendar. It had 24 little windows. Behind each window was a picture of something he had wished for as a child - mostly toys. |
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| Now you can buy Advent Calendars with all sorts of different themes to them. Traditionally there is a big window to open on Christmas Eve. Behind this is a picture of the baby Jesus. |
