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The Grapat 2022 Limited Edition Advent Calendar is 24 days of magic, packed and ready for your little ones to discover each day of December!
The Advent Calendar comes with a booklet to guide you through each day of wonder.
Handmade figures, crafts and games to explore as a family, let this LIMITED-EDITION calendar create new traditions in your home!
Grapat’s first advent calendar set, made of 24 reusable boxes containing different limited-edition surprises that link back to invitations to play and rituals proposed for each day of advent, guided through a very personal booklet, offered with love from our family to yours.
A word from the Grapat family…
It all started with a wish…
Last year, as the advent time was going by, something clicked. Instead of simply making this year’s advent calendar for our own little household once again, we thought it was time to share it with the rest of our extended household all around the world: our Grapat family! …because when we say that we are one big family, we really mean it.
The wish for this year’s holidays is to break down walls and borders, to go beyond language barriers and cultural differences, to pierce through space and time. To truly be together, as one.
So it is from our own hands (and hearts!) that we offer this limited edition calendar of advent. As for everything else that we do here at Grapat, it is an open-ended version of an advent calendar, done our way and ready to be adapted to your own one. It comes with a booklet filled with invitations to play, discover and feel for each day; the same rituals that our family has been growing with over the years.
Even if we have put a lot of effort and love in every single detail, the special pieces included in each box are purely little treats in our eyes, as the true magic of this calendar lies in the experience that you make of it. And the even more magical thing for us, is that you can share it with whom you love the most, year after year. Isn’t this what the most awaited time of the year is all about?
Any additional products in images are sold separately.
GRAPAT provides material without instructions, open-ended and autonomous play. Their only premise is to let children play, slowly, without time limits. Grapat hand crafts materials that encourage, invite and stimulate the creation of invented little worlds. Grapat is made following traditional processes, in the old way, with thick soft raw materials, natural dyes which let the wood veins be seen and vibrant coloured waxes and oils that slightly shine. The products are painted by hand, homemade, surrounded by nature and many children nearby that inspire the makers daily.
The wood we use comes from sustainable forests. Grapat uses beech and birch. Wood is the source that inspires us daily. It is robust, soft and hard, it is warm, it sounds good and it smells good.
The dyes are based on water and non-toxic that comply with the European safety regulations of the Toy EN / 71-3: 2014 + A1: 2014 / 2013. Working with dyes and not with acrylic paints allows Grapat to continue having contact with the wood. The dye does not jump from the wood when it falls to the ground or when time passes because it penetrates deep inside the piece. Sometimes it can happen that by an excess of pigments some piece loses some colour when coming in contact with the saliva, no problem, they are absolutely safe and non-toxic.
Grapat workshop is located in the countryside, and being close to nature can make some tones and colours have variations. Depending on the humidity or if there is wind the dye can impregnate one way or another in the wood. The finishes are made with waxes and oils of vegetable origin. The oils can have a strong aroma at first, but it loses it with the days. We love it!
Each piece that passes through Grapats hands is unique. Each one is painted by hand. And since from Grapat we defend the value of nature, we accept imperfection. It is beautiful and makes the material even more valuable. The cloth bags that are included in some of the products come from big companies that discard material when they have a small defect. As Grapat produces the bags by hand they can take advantage of them by removing those defects and giving them a second life. The fabrics vary and do not match with the photos of the products.
Care Instructions: If you clean Grapat wood products only use a damp cloth. Do not submerge in water and do not use disinfectant or hot water.
smlopez08 (verified owner) –
It does take some planning to follow along so this year, we just explored the items each day. I look forward to completing the corresponding activities next year. This is definitely worth it as it can be reused each year.