WA Advent 2025 - Monday 1st December

byGail-UK

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3 days ago

Dear WAers

Happy 1st December!

I have decided to create a WA Advent calendar series, and I offer this simple idea as something that you can do on your social media pages and/or websites, as a nod to the season and a way to connect to and engage with your audience and bring a bit of added festive cheer.

This will not be a religious series as we are here on WA , but you could make it so for your own customers if you wanted to.

I started this as a tradition in a school I once worked at, publishing a new Advent video every day up to Christmas, and it was very well received. We asked each department, year and extracurricular group to produce a short video of festive fun or trivia, and it really helped with engagement, brought people into the website and it was great fun.

You could do short videos, AI image, trivia, fun facts, games or anything else that you can imagine. It can be relevant to your niche, the season or just for fun.

I hope you enjoy this idea and please let me know if you are going to do something like this on your own sites.

So here is Day One in my WA Advent Calendar 2025.

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Advent Trivia

Advent has been part of the Christian calendar since the 4th century. It began as a quiet, reflective season to prepare the heart for Christmas. The word itself comes from adventus, meaning arrival or coming.

Advent calendars came much later. The first ones appeared in Germany in the 1800s when families would mark the days with chalk lines or little pictures.

By the early 1900s, printed Advent calendars were being made, and after the 1950s the familiar doors-with-chocolate style took off worldwide to the joy and chagrin of many depending on their point of view!

In the UK today, there are around 16.5 million advent calendars sold each year with around 1/3 of people buying them each year.

Global numbers are harder to pin down. Given the tradition’s German origins and its spread across Europe, North America, and beyond, worldwide sales are most likely in the tens of millions annually.

The market has expanded from simple doors and chocolate calendars to include expensive luxury versions with perfumes, wines, or even tech gadgets.

So what's your favourite Advent Calendar?

Let me know in the comments below.

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And be sure to check in tomorrow for another WA Family Festive Feast!

All the best

Gail