Opening a UK vs. USA Art Advent Calendar?! SHOCKING.. 😬
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Today I am opening up an art advent calendar from the UK (England/Britain) versus the USA (America) an artist advent is a really fun craft / crafty way to open a surprise mystery inside. I've opened a few before namely by Arteza but one of these art advents is AWFUL and I can't believe it exists lol it isn't because of where it is from so much as the store I bought it from. I'm sure there are many better arty craft advents you can buy in the USA! Let me know if you see them. Arteza for example is phenomenal.
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Did you have an advent calendar growing up?? If you could get any art advent calendar what would you like to see in it? 🤔
I didn’t have one growing up but I would have loved getting the Arteza one. It has a lot of fun supplies inside and leaves it up to your imagination what to do with them.
I did not grow up with an Advent calendar. I think we might have tried it forgetting to move to the next day. But I don't remember it being the kind of an Advent Calendar from which we got stuff.
My favorite Advent calendar for art would involve all sorts of watercolor paraphernalia. :-) Blessings.
useful art supplies that aren't just holiday themed
the only adverts we had were chocolates
My mom made one with felt and each pocket has an ornament inside and you get to stick it on the Christmas tree part with Velcro! I love it
The us advent calendar was such a disappointment literally getting plain pictures for every day and finding stuff from the dollar store inside 😭
Us here I actually bought the uk advent calendar at Aldi's it is cute.
Omg yesss ALDI!!!
@@ALunarLight The "US" calendar was sold at Aldi's LAST YEAR
The UK advent calendar is so fun! I would have loved that as a kid 💗
Me too!!
You can get the UK one at Aldi!! Going tomorrow to get 2. I hope it's as good!!
Yeck I would love it as an adult, I love just getting small crafts do you
@@thecharlieandravenshow6602 true! I would still have fun doing it as an adult now 😃
I can confirm, the Aldi Curious Craft 12 days of Crafting by Hinkler is the UK Advent calendar! It is so fun! $13 in the Chicgo area.
I love how she explains every thing in such a weird but fun way
She’s very funny 😂
I agree 😂
Chloe, hearing you talk about not having friends in school just made me want to give you a hug. As someone who didn't have friends at school until high school, I FEEL YOU. I'm so sorry you went through that - it sucked a lot, especially as an only child. Sending you lots of love!
😔 I have one kid and I’m pretty sure I can’t have anymore kids. Would you be able to give any advice for me to relay to him. He’s only 8 right now, 9 in February, but we just moved and he’s at a new school and is struggling a bit. He has a friend who lives next door that’s a year younger than him and is also an only child but I’m worried about down the road when we move again and he’s older. I dk
Same here! I was bullied so badly at school I was threatening the big S, aged 7. When the school tried to set up friends for me the only ones that volunteered were nasty girls wanting to look good. One of the bullies threw water over Simon Cowell in the audition stage of something, I've never seen the video of it but someone else who knew her delighted in telling me what happened 😆
... My mum home educated me and a genuine hippie taught me how to make friendship bands!
@@zaraheart encourage his friendship with the neighbour, if you have to move later at least he’s had a good friend in the meantime. If you move, hopefully they will remain penpals or friends online.
@@zarahearts someone who moved a lot and subsequently homeschooled (practically begged my mum to because I hated school and had no friends who seemed to be like I was in my class of 23 kids lol) the advice I will give to my kids and to others in a similar situation -
Relay to him that sometimes people make friends when they are older, and those friends are usually the friends that last forever. That it’s okay and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with not having lots of friends at school or friends outside of school. Friends are hard to find! Even as an adult. But you want quality of friends over quantity, always. Sometimes it better to wait to find amazing friends than rush to make bad ones. You have a long time to make friends! It won’t always be easy for him to accept but he will understand when he’s older. If he’s told from a young age that it’s TOTALLY normal to not have tons of friends or find it hard to make friends until you are older, it’ll make him feel that it’s more normal..because it is! Having no friends doesn’t mean anything, none of us have yet to meet everyone who will be our friend in life.
Tell him that sometimes it’s hard to find that special friend who gets us and is like us, they are rarer, that’s why they are hard to find! And quality over quantity always! Often too, it’s just through lack of being around enough people to find friends!
Never take it personally if you are just not in situations to meet people your age. If he wants to play sports or dance or take cooking classes, whatever activities he wants to do in life will all be opportunities to meet people!
@@ChloeRoseArt Thank you so much! 🥹 That is great advice and very true.
Hi Chloe, love ur videos but i would appreciate if the music was a little lower cuz sometimes it overpowers ur voice and as someone who gets overwhelmed by too much noise it can be a little bit inconvenient.
Thank u very much, luv u 💕💕
I agree
It must be an artist thing - my teen daughter has the hardest time finding friends. She's always sketching and creating comics. She LOVES your videos - thank you for being so open and honest! 💖
The British one is so cute and unique! I’m Canadian and I’ve only ever bought chocolate advent calendars because they’re about all I can find. They sell out so fast but they’re great!
Me too, I can’t really find any cool advent calendars here 🤷♀️
I seem to only find the mini chocolate ones
Really? In Germany there are all kinds of advent calendars.
That makes sense.
We have loads of beauty advent calendars here in Canada. I have a couple every year and my kids used to get the Lego one.
@@409cope I actually did see those after looking in London drugs. Closer to the sunglasses than the makeup aisle for some reason, though.
As a fellow advent calendar lover, watching you open everything on the same day just felt illegal xD Great idea for a video!
I grew up with advent calenders and I still love them!
When I was a kid I'd get both a chocolate one and my mother or grandmother (or they would split) would buy little gifts for each day, nothing fancy or expensive, probably what would equal to $1-3 maximum a day - and they'd have the whole year to buy the little gifts. Then when I got a little bit older I then only got the chocolate ones. Now as an adult I buy a calender that you scrape on each day to "collect" symbols in order to maybe win money. Like 10 christmas trees = 1 million DKK, 9 Santa Claus' = 50.000 DKK and so on. And this year I also bought a tea advent calender with a different tea each day instead of the chocolate one.
I've found that the advent calendars I get in Europe are superior than anything I've been been able to get in the USA. That includes the Christmas crackers too.
I help run the craft table at a reading club for kids in the UK and we literally do those crafts that are in The 12 Days of Crafting kit! The kids love them, the scratch art is 100% their favourite craft to do. The craft table really helps foster a positive environment in the reading club because the kids so look forward to coming to the craft table to do their crafts after reading, which has the knock on effect of making them like reading more in general. Who would have thought that crafts could help kids read more?
The crystal art kits do take time but they are also super satisfying! You should try one out! Loved the video!
Diamond Paintings are the craft I wish I'd started YEARS ago. It is so calming and satisfying. My husband and I are going to be starting a custom one together soon from Paint With Diamonds. Totally worth the time!
That 12 days of crafting advent calendar was very cute. I think all of the projects would be fun.
Britain: We’ll give you a variety of crafts to enjoy for hours!
America: Reindeer
Britain: …what
America: Reindeer
🤣
This comment needs to be pinned cause you just spoke faxx (facts)
I didn’t realise advent calendars was more of a British thing! I always get one and now I’m 23 and my mum or dad don’t buy me one, I get one for myself 😂
My local hobby craft and only art shop where I live is really small now :(
😂 i kept buying my own until I was in my 30s, because it was tradition. But I stopped opening them everyday and eating the chocolate so in the end I stopped buying them altogether.
I'm so shocked about that, I genuinely thought the chocolate ones, then more recently the grown-up make up/perfume/coffee/whatever advent calendars were American.
@@PrincessFidelma So did I! To be fair, the new advent calendars like Lego/Yankee Candle etc etc are probably the more Americanised ones now. I like my simple chocolate ones XD
Have a sneaky chocolate with my morning tea
@@Stardust_and_Madness my sister is like that now, she’s 29, it really bugs me that she doesn’t open the doors and eat the chocolate haha. She sometimes opens the doors then leaves the chocolate on the side to eat at the weekend
We have them in Denmark as well. They are the best. My mum bought me a really nice one, even though I’ve moved out. So I sat in my tiny apartment, looking forward to getting my chocolate every day. It was so nice
The only advent calendar I bought this year is the dog advent calendar from Costco. It's so cute, stuffed with toys and treats! Plus since it's got drawers, I plan to refill and reuse it in the future.
I always want to get them for my dog!! But he gets diarrhea with every meat except salmon and they usually include chicken or beef 😭😂
You could buy a wooden advent calendar with drawers and paint it. Then have a friend or family member tuck in toys and treats that are appropriate for your pup. That's what I intend to do next year when I reuse this one so it's still a surprise for me when I open each day.
@@ChloeRoseArtlol😂😢😢😢
I love that UK advent calendar! So creative! And great price! Those are genuinely great crafts.
Advent calendar's are a big thing in Australia as well, though not so much the chocolate ones as they tend to melt! I love the lego ones and still buy them for my grown up son, my daughter in law got a lip gloss one, and I also made one with various little items in it as well for her. I grew up in the UK and my brother and I always had a chocolate advent calendar, they were the only ones you could get way back then.
My Brother in Australia tends to organise one of his business trips to come to the UK in November because he says he can get his 3 kids much better Advent calendars over here than in Australia. He left with an LOL surprise each day one, a Barbie dress up one, and a Hot Wheels one for his car mad son, he said they just don't get them where he lives.
We get advent calendars in Australia too. So many different brands of lollies/candy and chocolate, and now adult ones with 12 drinks to try over the season or make your own with different surprises. I’ve never seen one like the Target craft one where you just get what to make. It seems like a good idea someone had but they weren’t given much budget to execute the idea.
I remember once being able to get items from the US and Canada quite cheaply because of the exchange rate - now, the pound is one to one virtually with the US dollar and then add in the postage, it makes it even more expensive. I've not bought anything from Canada recently, but the last time I looked on etsy, the postage from Canada was a lot cheaper than that from the US, and there is also issues with custom fees with items bought from the US, too.
I noticed that post from Australia and New Zealand has gone down, too. I assume it's some deal with Commonwealth countries, but I've only bought from those 3.
I hate that I'm charged import tax on the flipping postage when it's not an item 😡
I appreciate the perfectly crafted snowflake you made after pulling up instructions on how to make it on your phone because the crafting advent calendar didn't come with instructions. I've never had an advent calendar and now I don't feel like I was missing much in the States. Now that I live in the UK maybe I can treat myself to a nice one 😊
Chloe, I really felt badly for you when you said you had no friends as a child. That must have been awful for you. I felt a strong need to hug you tightly after you said that. You are so fun, and so bubbly, it's hard to imagine people at any time not wanting to be your friends. You deserved better. I am glad to know that life has improved for you since those lonely days.
This was a good video. I have to say tho that I have never seen an advent as bad as the US one. I would have been quite cross if I had bought that and found what a waste of money it was.
I would have been over the moon with the UK one as a child tho. It was a shame it only had 12 days but it didn't have the space for more, which is fair enough. I laughed at the burned penguin, as I've done that myself once or twice! Lol
God bless you and all those you love. Merry Christmas to you all.
So much fun to watch along! Love your videos, I feel like I could listen to chat and make art all day.
That US calendar- it doesn’t look like they included enough supplies for all 24 days of “projects” looks like if you do half of them you use up all the supplies! So awful for you and anyone who buys it, but so fun for us to see it in action.
"It takes away the fun and annoyance..." as a European kid I can confirm this xDD When you can't find todays door!!!
In the US 50 years ago we had advent calendars galore. They were mostly the chocolate ones but they were very widely known and used.
That’s good to know! In the early 2000’s we could never find any in the US in the stores we went to, my mum would search high and wide! Usually in Walmart target etc so perhaps they were in different stores we didn’t go to/weren’t in our local ones
The 2nd one would be great for the holiday with kids. It can be hard to think of fun thinks to do every day over long school breaks but to have a craft that takes time on each day with instructions would definitely help
I actually got your uk calendar last year at an Aldi store and spent Christmas vacation doing the crafts😃 The target advent was so disappointing 😭
I love her easygoing and fun loving personality ❤❤ LOVE YOU CHLOEEE❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!
I noticed a lot of advent calendars this year. I even saw one that had twelve different cans of beer. I don’t remember ever seeing them as much when I was younger.
The UK one is so cute! I think I would have loved that as a kid too!
I made friendship bracelets as a kid with no friends. I just made them as bracelets for myself. And to be fair when others made them at school they didn't make them for each other, just made them whilst sat together and shared techniques. I was really slow to make them though so would do more at home than at school.
Oh and with the beads you iron, it only needs to be a few seconds of ironing in a circular motion (don't leave iron in one place) and you don't need to apply any pressure since the heat does the job for you. Then you remove the paper, but leave the design on the pegboard to cool. Then it can be removed and to create a more permanent finish, flip it over pop the paper back on, and very gently iron the other side too (just not on the pegboard this time). If you only iron the one side, your design can break with handling. Do both and its much more likely to last. Still got some I did in the 90s for reference and the glow in the dark ones still glow!
I'd be disappointed with the American one more due to how they felt that was an ok way to present the crafts (along with the price point) because once you've figured out what the crafts are meant to be, with instructions they would have been the sort of thing I'd have loved doing as a toddler/before school age. Maybe even slightly into school age. And they'd also be quite repeatable if the kid enjoyed it since those kinds of supplies are available quite cheaply. But for the price? And without instructions? Not worth it at all! And I'd have included a plastic sewing needle in there for the pompom garland as sewing them onto the string would work way better than the pva glue in the tube. I had a plastic needle sewing kit (just sew through holes on felt shapes) which I got around the age of 3/4 from a Christmas lucky dip thing they had in town. So could see a similar thing working with those pompoms since you don't really need a metal needle to get through them.
I love the stuff you got in the UK advent calendar. It all looks like so much fun. Even as an adult I would be stoked to get that lol. 😁
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"its one of these things where you... put the... things on the- part and- and then you melt it and it sticks..."
-Chloe Rose Art, 2022
I hope you're getting enough love now to balance it out for back then. I didn't have much friends at school either, but luckily I had one that stood by my side through it all, even though she could've fit in with the popular kids. I'm pretty sure if she wasn't there I wouldn't still be here now.
You're an amazing person Chloe, you deserve so much love ❤
OMG you have a doodle!!!! i want one so bad
target is usually elevated prices for less quality. also elevated prices for things you can get the exact same of for less at other stores.
We’ve done homemade advent calendars (US) since I was little but I hadn’t seen many of them in stores until about 2010.
I spent a lot of time as a kid in the library reading and helping the librarian put books away after we moved and I didn't have any friends. It kind of sucked at the time but I discovered a love for reading... so, it was worth it imo. 😁
The UK calendar looks fun.
Also, I just got my order from your shop today-three stickers and the pencil set (the “I lost my other pencil” is perfect for both artists and musicians. Writers too…it’s perfect for anyone, haha.
Nice to see your video after a long time !! I was waiting for it !!
This definitely just made my Friday! Thanks!
Parchment paper can survive the oven…but not Chloe 😅 love your videos they make my day. That advent calendar looks like so much fun.
Hi Chloe, I haven't had an advent calendar when I was a kid, but I do like watching you unbox them anyway.lots of love 🥰🥰😘😘💖💖
The melty bead project you iron it on the pegboard until the beads hold together on their own, then you flip it over off of the pegboard and iron the other side.
Wow , cant beleive how awesomeeeee the uk craft kit was , my daughter would loveeeee that .
I saw the same UK calendar in the US, but sold at Aldi, so that makes sense. Glad to hear your thoughts on it! Was curious about what was inside.
Omggggg I love u talking about what crafts you liked as a child and how u didn’t have any friends I felt so bad because neither did I till secondary school sooo ur amazing
I found that UK advent calendar at my local Aldi's last year for $12. My daughter loved doing a craft everyday leading up to Christmas
That’s great to know! Thanks for sharing that!
That's where I got mine today at Aldi 's at £4.99!
Yes we bought it at aldi last year....they have them again this year.
@@peteinuk £2.99 on the Aldi website now 😮
@@sarahh5988 wow!
I really love the choice of Christmasy music. Your crafts look pretty good :)
8:59 The first item in the package is already better than the entire other package!
The pausing and acceptance of the tail to face wags lol 😆 😅 😂
THE Uk advent calendar is such a nice gift to a kid=) These craft projects turned out so cute=3
Twelve Days is much better when you get such cute crafts!
I like how she trys new things even if it makes her uncomfortable to. I also like how she uses mediums she dosnt like but doed it beacuse we like it.
omg you said "bless you" to your pup. i think i adore you even more now :o) puppers forever
They are part of the family and deserve the same respect! Haha
She has such a good personality ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊
I'll admit, the UK has that hands down. 😁😁👋👋💖💖
Cozy beautiful 🥰
Thank you very much for another wonderfully entertaining video. This one is getting saved in my Makes Me Smile folder on RUclips. I love using the end of the paintbrush to pick up the little circle plastic things that I don't know what they were called before grabbing the tweezers. I was also bummed by the Advent calendar they didn't actually function like an Advent calendar. Just a glorified box of craft supplies. I am sorry that Friends were a hard thing to come by in your early years. Yes, I do think that RUclips friends count. So do friends that one may never have been physically in the same room with. Some of the dearest people in my life are those Who have chosen to spend intentional time with me via zoom for some other video media. I truly believe that even though we may not see each other in " real life " the intentionality of connection that happens in those kinds of meetings seems times to make the relationships that form richer than once I have with people I may physically see on a regular basis. Blessings.
That reminds me of the slime that came in at tin can in the 80`s! Ah, happy memories. 😊
I love your shirt Chloe and your headband ❤
I bought the UK calendar for my 5 year old daughter and we both loved it 🥰
I bought a Christmas craft kit for my kiddos at Target. The instructions were good and my daughter had some cute ornaments to hang on tree. Target is usually good with craft kits.
love the video chloe!! i've never myself had an advent calendar growing up but its always fun to watch people review them. I will say the music you have during the video is just a touch loud and makes it hard to hear you talk.
Your nail art is sooo pretty
I just bought a craft Advent from target for this year. It’s a 12 one. But very simple kids crafts. Still going to do it for fun.
Early!and this is super cute! I would probably do the 12 days of crafting compared to the 24 days
More fool them Chloe, you would have been an awesome friend. ❤
Aww bummer… I’ve gotten some lovely advent calendars!! The arteza calendars are nice, you’ll like those. I think.
I have that British one and I love it but we bought it on the 10th of December so we're going to start opening it on the 12th
I made rainbow loom bracelets for Christmas one year! I gave everyone in my family a bracelet and a cute Christmas eraser! 😂 My grandpa kept his in his office till he died. 🥹
I didn’t even know they had art advent calendars lol
Seems they have everything now a days. Calendars for your pets, candy/chocolate only, toys, legos, jewelry, etc. wish I were a kid now a days with all the cool things they have now haha
Love your videos
Thank you!
I have the start of this video on pause because I have the Aldi one. I really want to watch the video but I also want the windows to be a surprise 😂
Love you and your channel always 💕
Thank you!
Your welcome 🥰
0:00 omg I just started and u have me rolling on my floor laughing 😂😂😂😂
Hey Chloe!! I love your videos they are relaxing and fun to watch! May i ask what camera you use to record your youtube videos since the colors are so lovely ❤ have a blessed holiday season
Canadian here, if you guys like the UK one it can definitely be found here. I had seen it at least at Canadian tire. I do believe other stores carry this brand like Wal-Mart and Michael.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who says bless you to my dog hehe
My mom always got us a chocolate advent calendar since we were kids and still does it to this day. She even gets them for the grandkids.
Hii I just wanted to say for the uk one the pencil is for the Rhine stone things you stab the pencil in the “gum” it’s the red clay type thing and you pick up the Rhine stones with it and u out them on
now that i'm older i don't get the chocolate advent ones but i do buy myself Christmas sock ones every couple of years and usually after they go on sales later on then open them at Christmas. I have so far gotten some great socks that way. :) However there seems to be a large range of bad advent calendars in the US. I watch a lot of advent calendar videos at this time of year and the best ones do not seem to come from the US... there's some good ones but there is a lot of bad ones.
Ooh what brand are the socks?
I cried laughing at the first one. That has got to be the worst product I've ever seen, just in general.
this is why I try n read them good
cuz sometimes it's like "here's just a random bunch of recipes we can't give you the stuff to make it's just ideas give us money"
My friends and I always made friendship bracelets at camp but we spent so much time on them that we always kept the for ourselves and never gave them to anyone
The US, is cheap, but meant to countdown to Christmas. They are usually cheap items, like UK crackers. The UK one is to be opened on Christmas and used to countdown the 12 days of Christmas, that it why it is not Christmas themed and better quality. BTW day 2 is a diamond painting bracelet.
We would have been best friends- you remind me of me at your age- if that makes sense! Lol- I would be lost in Disney, Art, Crafts- being outside and have a witty humor…. Which seemed to have lead to a relatively lonely childhood- But, looking back- I treasure those days I was in my own little bubble of creativity and wonder! (I’m maybe 8 years older than you- so that’s why I mentioned when I was your age 😂) as I wrote this I began feeling as though I am 80 hahaha.
In my 30’s and I STILL buy these types of sets to just spend a mental health day having fun! People who don’t enjoy crafty kits…. Well, they just need to lighten up and live a little.
I craft every single day of my life- working in insurance, it’s literally neccessAry to be fun and silly to keep our spirit up!
PS you should do a craft kit like Mariah and Jackie did! I’d buy one for sure!!
Love your headband.
Omg, can't believe I'm early for once, I love you videos, your creativity
OMG when I saw she has the same advent calendar that I have! ☺️
I would have thought the googly eyes would be stick-on, rather than something you have to glue. I bought a craft bucket from Target with very similar, albeit non-Christmas, craft supplies so I could make crafts with a two and four year old. The little dinky glue bottle is the exact same, and works about as well as it did in your video on things like pom-poms.
Wow. Target should be feeling some shame right now! 😂
I was wondering if the Target calendar was going to be that way before you opened it 😂 such tiny doors, was like how do you pull a craft out of that mouse door?!
I really want a UK advent calendar now! That first one from the US was hard to watch....
Okay I'm going to look for that 12 days of crafting box. In the January sales. Because that is pretty good and cute. The packaging makes it look shite. But shouldn't judge a book by its cover I guess.
You such fun Chloe! I know your probably tired of this question, but would you dig into your Arthur the Bear book and bring one of your illustrations to life in paint? You can do a Watercolor or Acrylic even a Gouache painting would look nice. Just putting it out there it has been while since I mentioned this project, I just want to see what you might do and it might provide you with future art for prints too!
I never saw a good advent calendar until my mom hand-made a beer one for my dad 7 or 8 years ago.
Love ur videos
Hiya Chloe, sorry to say this, but neither of them are called Advent calendars which is why the USA don't open up like a regular Advent calendar does, with something behind each door. They are 12 and 25 Days of Crafting Kits. Just something to keep the young ones busy during the lead up to Christmas. But bf, we have been doing Advent calendars longer, here in the UK. xxx