Choose your Audio Advent Calendar!

Take your children on a holiday adventure! Our Audio Advent Calendars feature one story for each day, December 1 to 25. And more: each one comes with a printable calendar — plus other projects — to add to the fun. Scroll down for all five options!

Martin & Sylvia’s Audio Advent Calendar

Follow the 25 magical days of Advent with Martin and Sylvia! From the playhouse to the library, from the Webers’ restaurant to the Spunderful Shop, you can spend all of December with the delightful brother and sister as they follow an Advent adventure.

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Projects: Martin & Sylvia Audio Advent Calendar!

Advent Activities Parent Cheat Sheet: Martin & Sylvia’s Daily Advent Activities

As you are planning and preparing for your own Advent season, we thought you might enjoy a little “cheat sheet” for what’s ahead with Martin and Sylvia. You can let the ideas from the stories inspire your own daily activities.

Advent Activities Sparkle Craft: Martin & Sylvia’s Colorable Ornaments for Advent

For this year’s calendar, our lovely Sparkle Stories artists have made a beautiful set of printable ornaments.

Advent Activities Advent Projects: Martin & Sylvia’s Audio Calendar – Day 1: “Waiting”

In this Martin & Sylvia’s Audio Advent Calendar Day 1 story, “Waiting,” Advent is coming and brother and sister are worried – where is their advent calendar?

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Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar

December 1: Waiting

December 1: Martin and Sylvia receive a golden envelope in the mail with an invitation for an advent adventure!

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24 MINUTES

Sparkle Craft: Martin & Sylvia’s Colorable Ornaments for Advent

ADVENT COLLECTION

Junkyard Tales: Audio Advent Calendar

Spend the holidays with all your friends from the junkyard—Sergeant the Watchdog, Mitzie the Mouse, Fredland the Moose, Spiro the Skunk, and more!

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Sparkle Crafts Tutorial: the Junkyard Tales PRINTABLE Advent Calendar

Look everyone! It’s a PRINTABLE Advent Calendar! Each of the 25 little doors hides a clue to the matching story in the Junkyard Tales Audio Advent Calendar – so you can listen and open a door each day from December 1st to the 25th!

Advent Activities Project: The Junkyard Tales Audio Advent Coloring Book!

We’ve created twenty-five fun printables for each day of the Junkyard Tales Audio Advent calendar!

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Junkyard Tales: Audio Advent Calendar

December One: Sergeant Calls a Meeting

The Junkyard animals are distressed over news that the Warden might have to leave the Junkyard and take Sergeant and Winnie with them,…

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17 MINUTES

ADVENT COLLECTION

Libby & Dish’s Good-Deed-A-Day Club

Libby and Dish form the Good-Deed-A-Day Club with their friends and make a pact to do something nice for someone else every day in December

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Projects: Libby & Dish’s Good-Deed-A-Day Club!

Sparkle Crafts Tutorial: Libby & Dish’s December PRINTABLE Holiday Calendar!

We are so excited to launch a new story-a-day audio experience this December! This year it’s all about *Libby & Dish*.

Advent Activities Parent Cheat Sheet: Libby & Dish’s Good Deed a Day Club

With the help of this “cheat sheet” your can pattern your own daily good deeds after those of Libby and her friends. Many of the good deeds are quite simple, and you can easily adapt them to fit your own family’s culture or interests.

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Libby & Dish's Good-Deed-A-Day Club

The First Good Deed (Libby’s Mother)

In this first episode of Libby & Dish’s month-long adventure, Libby finds herself at odds with her mother over a challenging task. Can…

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17 MINUTES

ADVENT COLLECTION

The Castlechanter

A daily adventure with the first-graders Oscar and Aliyah as they embark on a mystical journey into the enchanted land of Hillwyn and learn to navigate this magical realm with new fairy friends.

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Projects: The Castlechanter Fairy Audio Advent Calendar!

Sparkle Crafts Tutorial: The Castlechanter Fairy PRINTABLE Advent Calendar

We made a printable Advent Calendar to go with the Castlechanter Fairy Audio Advent Calendar. Let us show you how to put it together!

Advent Activities Parent Cheat Sheet: Castlechanter Fairy Advent Activities

Use this parent cheat sheet to help you navigate the stories with activities that relate to each story. In this cheat sheet, we’ve given you a timeline so you can be prepared with a recipe, craft, or fun idea in advance.

Advent Activities Castlechanter Audio Advent Calendar Crafts and recipes: Week One

Welcome to the first week of the Castlechanter Fairy Advent Calendar! We are so delighted you chose to join us. Every day for the next four weeks, we will be sharing crafts and recipes from our Sparkle Archives that are similar to the ones in the advent calendar.

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The Castlechanter Fairy Audio Advent Calendar

Story One: “Where to Start”

Oscar and his sister receive a surprise invitation to explore a new feature of the enchanted land of Hillwyn: the fairy advent spiral…

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19 MINUTES

ADVENT COLLECTION

It’s a Martian Holiday!

Earth-dwellers have many rich winter holiday tranditions, but did you know that Martians have a winter holiday too? Enjoy them all in this 25 story collection.

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Advent Activities Printable Holiday Postcards: “It’s a Martian Holiday!” Advent Activities

In each of the twenty-five stories of our newest audio Advent Calendar, “It’s a Martian Holiday!”, Johnny Boy writes a postcard to his friend Allison. We’ve got all twenty-five printable holiday postcards ready for you to download and share.

December 1: The Daily Postcard Extravaganza

It's a Martian Holiday!

December 1: The Daily Postcard Extravaganza

What do Christmas, Hanukkah, and other winter holidays on earth look like through the eyes of a real-life Martian?

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16 MINUTES

ADVENT COLLECTION

Calendario de Adviento en audio de Martín y Silvia

¡Sigue los 25 días mágicos de Adviento con Martín y Silvia! Puedes pasar todo diciembre con estos encantadores hermanos mientras siguen su propia aventura de Adviento.

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