7 Reasons a Space Advent Calendar Beats Chocolate for Kids Who Love Rockets

If your kid would rather talk about rockets than eat another chocolate before breakfast, read these before you buy this year's advent calendar.

1. A fleet instead of wrappers

A chocolate calendar is gone in a bite each morning, and by December 26 it's an empty box in the recycling.

This one works the other way: every door adds a little spacecraft to a fleet they keep.

2. No chocolate before breakfast

The usual calendar means sugar at 7am and a negotiation about opening tomorrow's door too.

Filling a homemade calendar works, if you have time to find 24 small space things in November.

3. 24 different spacecraft

Behind each of the 24 doors is a different mini model: rockets, shuttles, rovers, landers and satellites.

So the countdown builds something. By Christmas Eve there's a whole mini space fleet.

4. A display on the windowsill

The models are small and sized to line up on a shelf or windowsill, so the fleet grows where they can see it every morning.

Every door is a new shape to point at and talk about.

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5. What they are, honestly

They're small sculpted minis with recognizable shapes, generic space designs, not licensed replicas of real missions.

Recommended for ages 6 and up. They're small parts and aren't for children under 3.

6. The box is the wrapping

The calendar box doubles as the wrapping, so it's ready to hand over or set out on November 30th.

An easy gift for a grandchild, niece or nephew who's into space.

7. Two calendars for $40, order by mid-November

Every order is Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two calendars for $40, which is $20 each. One for your space kid and one for a cousin, a classmate or a grandparent's house.

Order by mid-November so it arrives before December 1st. Every order has a 30-day money-back guarantee.