Choosing an advent calendar for the teen in your life may prove more challenging than getting them to look up from their phone at dinner. Teens can be tricky to buy for, their interests change in the blink of an eye and often it’s hard to even know what they’re interested in.
This list of teen Advent calendar ideas should help you find something they’ll enjoy opening during the 25 days of Christmas.
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Advent Calendars for Teens
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Beauty and Makeup Advent Calendars for Teens
If your teen spends their free time watching YouTube makeup tutorials, consider a fun makeup or beauty-themed advent calendar.
This is a decorative advent calendar garland with a beauty treat to open on the days leading up to Christmas!
Here's another 12-day countdown advent calendar that is perfect for the teen who loves taking showers and baths. Plus it's filled with holiday scents!
Your teen can count down the holidays with this fun advent calendar filled with 24 premium samples - including popular brands like Mario Badescu, Sunday Riley, and Caudalie. This festive set holds over $200 of beauty treasures and treats.
The Body Shop offers an advent calendar your beauty-obsessed teen would be thrilled to receive. Your teen will enjoy all the pampering treats, it'll be a gift that keeps on giving!
NYX Professional Makeup Diamonds & Ice, Please! Holiday Countdown Advent Calendar
This ultimate advent calendar features 24 NYX Professional Makeup iconic best-selling makeup products in mini and full sizes. If your teen loves makeup, this is the calendar for them!
Gift your teen this 12-day calendar that is filled with some of the most popular e.l.f. cosmetics and beauty tools.
Fun Fashion Teen Advent Calendar Ideas
To truly make your teen's Christmas, consider an advent calendar that they can use! If fun and quirky (usually mismatched) socks are your teen's thing, a sock advent calendar should be on your list. Or perhaps a scrunchie calendar is just the right gift!
If your teen has long hair, consider a throw-back Scrunchie Advent Calendar. This handmade Etsy item includes 12 scrunchies packaged up for a fun treat to open every other day leading up to Christmas.
Teen Wizards and Muggles alike will love the Harry Potter 12 Days of Socks Advent Calendar. The calendar is available in both men's and women's sizes.
Does your teen love fun socks and NASA? Here's the perfect advent calendar for those teens with their heads in the stars!
12 Days of Socks Advent Calendar Women's Star Wars Princess Leia Casual Socks (Size 4-10)
Teen fans of Star Wars will love both the Star Wars 12 Days of Socks Advent Calendar.
Disney Princess and Villians 12 Days of Socks Advent Calendar Gift Set (Womens)
There are also Disney themed 12 Days of Socks Advent Calendars representing your teen's favorite characters.
Countdown the holidays with this 12 days of Scrunchies calendar. You can choose the holiday colors, or a warm or cool color palette.
Toys and Collectibles Advent Calendar Ideas for Teens
Fan merchandise isn't just for clothing, your teen likely still loves toys. They just may not call them toys anymore. These Advent calendars feature collectibles your teen will love opening in the days leading up to Christmas.
The Marvel 80th Anniversary Advent Calendar contains pocket Pops of your teen's favorite Marvel characters.
Similarly, the Harry Potter Funko Advent Calendar is a great option for your favorite wizarding teen.
If you have a teen LEGO builder in your family, this is a perfect teen advent calendar - it's HP themed!
Can you ever really outgrow Star Wars? Perhaps you'll be buying this one for more than just the teen in the house!
For something a little different, let your teen test their problem-solving skills with the Metal Wire Puzzle Toys Advent Calendar. This set of 24 metal puzzles gets more challenging the closer it gets to Christmas.
Best Candy and Chocolate Advent Calendars 2020
Teens with a sweet-tooth will love these tasty advent calendars.
The perfect advent calendar for daily treats and love!
This calendar includes a mix of fruit-flavored gummies as well as marshmallows, licorice, and gum.
For high-end sweet teeth, check out this Sugarfina advent calendar with 24 drawers filled with popular Sugarfina treats.
Hershey Miniatures and Candy Coated Milk Chocolate Pieces Filled Christmas Advent Calendar
A perfect Advent calendar for teens who love Hershey's.
Mars Assorted Candy Christmas Advent Calendar with M&M's, Snickers, Skittles, MilkyWay, Starburst
If your teen is more of a fan of Mars candy, this calendar will have them jumping for joy.
If the teen in your life is vegetarian, vegan, or has allergies, the No Whey Foods is a great dairy-free, nut-free, and allergen-friendly treat option.
Nostalgic Advent Calendars
Does your teen have a soft-heart and a love of tradition? One of these classic, nostalgic Advent calendars can be used for years to come and be handed down to the next generation.
This is perfect if you're looking for a traditional Nativity Advent calendar. Each day a new piece of the Christmas Story will be opened and added to the storyboard.
For a more whimsical wooden calendar, this snowman box calendar has a wooden ornament that gets unveiled each day and added to the tree.
DIY Advent Calendar Ideas for Teens
If you’re more of a DIY person and prefer to add a personal touch to your gift-giving, a handmade advent calendar for the teen in your life may be just the ticket. A DIY doesn’t have to be difficult.
A simple DIY advent calendar idea would be to combine 24 of your teen’s favorite things into numbered cloth bags. Add 24 smaller items like a package of chips, some lip balm, and a favorite movie theater candy to the collection for an advent calendar customized to your teen’s specific interests.
Another idea that you can incorporate with teens and tweens is a giving back advent calendar. Create your own bucket list of random acts of kindness or buy a random acts of kindness advent calendar. You can choose to perform RAKs for people in your family or community. Doing one good deed each day truly encompasses the spirit of Christmas.
Consider one of the random acts of kindness that includes lunch at your teen’s favorite restaurant for some one-on-one quality time during the busy Christmas season. The memories will live on beyond the holiday season.
Choosing an advent calendar for your teen can be difficult; you just never know what is going to resonate with them. When all is said and done, maybe not this year or even next year, the teen in your life will come to appreciate all the ways you worked to make the holiday season magical.
