25K+ people found their calendar here last season. Find yours for 2026.
Art and hobby advent calendars are the boxes with something to make or something to keep: 36 new for 2026, 74 across the seasons. For the desk, Papier's 12- and 24-day stationery calendars (75 and 145 GBP, worth about twice the price) and Cult Pens' at 100 GBP with a 550 GBP Premium above it; for the maker, National Geographic's gemstone and mega-science kits at 30 to 40 USD and Play-Doh at 19.99; for the collector, Pokémon's nineteen named figures, the Funko Pocket Pops, Schleich's Harry Potter miniatures and the Porsche 911 Turbo built a piece a day; and for the darts player, Winmau's two and Red Dragon's. The line through the shelf is whether the maker prints the doors (Papier, Cult Pens, Pokémon and Porsche do; Funko names four of 24; Schleich keeps the line-up secret beyond three exclusives) and the collectibles page under this one holds the figure boxes on their own.
74 calendars, 36 new for 2026, from $17 to $750, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
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24 doorsOne for each way of asking. Every row clears the same bar — rated 4 out of 5 or better by an editor, or where none has scored it, an editors’ pick or contents worth more than the box — and nothing older than last season.
First pickCult Pens Stationery 2026Our rating 4/5 · contents worth 2.0× the box price · 24 doors£100Best valuePapier 24 Day 2026Our rating 4/5 · contents worth 1.9× the box price · 24 doors$195Under $50BlueBrixx Stargate 1994 Advent Calendar 2026Our rating 4/5 · 24 doors€39.95Over $200Wedgwood Bone China Archive Icons 2026Our rating 4/5 · 12 doors£550For kidsNational Geographic Gemstone 2026Our rating 4/5 · 24 doors$29.75For womenPapier 12 Day 2026Our rating 4/5 · contents worth 1.8× the box price · 12 doors$95
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24 doorsThe 24 editions below are from 2025 and before. Most are sold out; the pages stay for the prices, the door lists and what changed year to year.
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24 doorsThe stationery calendars are the ones with a valuation, and the honest multiple is about two; the science kits and the figure boxes are bought on the brand. Under 50 USD is National Geographic, Play-Doh and Funko; the Porsche and the Premium pens are the splurges.
Set the number before you browse, because it decides the shelf more than anything else here. Of the 49 priced in dollars, 25 come in under $50, 21 sit between $50 and $200 and 3 cost more than that — the range runs $17 to $750, and half are above $50. Compare the price bands
58 of the 74 here have 24 doors — a 24-door box opens one a day from 1 December to Christmas Eve. The others run 12 and 25, and the shorter ones start partway through the month: a 12-door box opens on 13 December. For someone who will not open one every day, or a gift that will arrive late, fewer doors is the better fit, not the lesser calendar. Every start date
36 of the 74 here are 2026 editions, and 27 are last season's — still sold, often discounted, and with the contents already on the page. The 11 older than that are listed for the record, not for buying. A brand's page keeps every edition together, so check whether the box you are looking at is this year's before you compare prices.
Every calendar page that we have costed shows what the contents come to against the sticker price. We have done that for 12 of the 74 here: the median box holds 1.8× its own price in product, the spread runs 1.0× to 2.1×, and every one of them comes to more than it costs. Below 1.0× you are paying for the box; none here does that.
22 of the 74 here carry an editors' pick — the chip above the grid narrows the shelf to those — and 45 have a written score. Those are the boxes somebody on this site has actually judged. The rest are listed because they exist, not because we are recommending them; being on this page is not a verdict. How we review
54 of the 74 here are collectibles. National Geographic Gemstone 2026 leads — rated 4/5 by our editors; Pokémon Holiday 2026 and Porsche 911 Turbo 2026 follow.
21 of the 74 here are tagged for women. Papier 24 Day 2026 leads — rated 4/5 by our editors, contents worth 1.9× the box price; Cult Pens Stationery 2026 and Gründl Kreativer Adventskalender 2026 follow.
32 of the 74 here are tagged for men. BlueBrixx Stargate 1994 Advent Calendar 2026 leads — rated 4/5 by our editors; Zeck Adventskalender Waller 2026 and Cult Pens Premium Stationery 2026 follow.
40 of the 74 here are tagged for kids. National Geographic Mega Science 2026 leads — rated 4/5 by our editors; Play-Doh 2026 and Funko Pocket Pop Harry Potter 2026 follow.
The best value among the calendars here that we have rated this season: contents worth 1.9× the price, rated 4/5, $195, 24 doors. Three rollerball pens, five notebooks and journals and a drawer of desk pieces, the list printed, for 145 GBP against 280; the calendar for the person whose desk is the treat. Several doors are clips, tabs and stickers, and the jigsaw and playing cards are there to make up the 24.
24 doors36 art & hobbies calendars for 2026, a median of $2.35 a door, 1.9× their price in contents, 17 brands we had never listed before, 2 sold out.
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| First pick | Cult Pens Stationery 2026 | £100 | 24 | £4.17 | — | 2.0× | 4/5 | In stock |
| Best value | Papier 24 Day 2026 | £145 | 24 | £6.04 | 1 | 1.9× | 4/5 | — |
| Under $50 | BlueBrixx Stargate 1994 Advent Calendar 2026 | €39.95 | 24 | €1.66 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| Over $200 | Wedgwood Bone China Archive Icons 2026 | £550 | 12 | £45.83 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| kids | National Geographic Gemstone 2026 | $29.75 | 24 | $1.24 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| women | Papier 12 Day 2026 | £75 | 12 | £6.25 | 1 | 1.8× | 4/5 | — |
| — | Porsche 911 Turbo 2026 | €129.95 | 24 | €5.41 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | Gründl Kreativer Adventskalender 2026 | €164.99 | 24 | €6.87 | 1 | — | 4/5 | In stock |
| — | National Geographic Mega Science 2026 | $39.99 | 24 | $1.67 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | Play-Doh 2026 | $19.99 | 24 | $0.83 | — | — | 4/5 | — |
Median price $57 across the 36 priced; door price across 36; value across the 10 with both figures. Rough dollar rates, for ranking only.
Drawn only from boxes whose value is the retailer’s own count, so a low figure is the brand’s claim and not our miscounting. Across 10 with both figures.
Yes. 36 of the 74 art and hobby advent calendars we list are 2026 editions. The other 38 are 2025 and 2024 boxes, which some retailers still stock.
Art and hobby advent calendars run from $17 to $750, with the middle of the range at $50. That is across the 49 of the 74 we list that carry a US price.
Most art and hobby advent calendars have 24 doors, 58 of the 74 we list. The rest run 12 and 25.
45 brands make the 74 art and hobby advent calendars we list. Funko has the most with 9, then Porsche with 5 and Cinereplicas with 4. The other 42 have up to 4 each.
We have priced the contents of 12 of the 74 art and hobby advent calendars we list against what they charge. The median box holds 1.8× its price in product, and every one of them comes to more than it costs.
Zeck Adventskalender Waller 2026: the contents come to 2.1× the box price, by the brand's own count, the highest multiple of the 10 2026 boxes here that print a valuation. The numbers band on this page ranks the best and the least.
Across the 7 2026 boxes that print a door list, 79 items: mostly battle figure (24), stationery (18) and accessory (11). Every calendar page carries its own list where the maker prints one.
