How to Create a Christmas Penguin from your LEGO Advent Calendar

LEGO Advent Calendars are part of our Christmas traditions, and whilst the 24 LEGO items are used and loved throughout the year. It is difficult to know what to do with the tray that comes inside of the advent calendar – currently, ours are separately LEGO into colours and parts. Children can now enjoy their advent calendars well beyond December 25^th thanks to the LEGO Group, which has released its 2017 series featuring sustainable paper pulp trays inside the box.

The brand has created a short film that inspires children (and adults alike) to repurpose their new sustainable tray into something entirely different – allowing it to live on beyond the holiday season. This move from the toy manufacturer plays on a child’s preoccupation with often enjoying the wrapping paper and packaging just as much as their presents and provides an opportunity for them to get creative during the festivities.

The LEGO advent calendars are available in three themes: LEGO^® City, LEGO^® Friends and LEGO^® Star Wars^TM. The calendars contain a small LEGO model in each of the 24 compartments of the tray, for each day leading up to Christmas from December 1st. The new trays are a replacement for non-recyclable black plastic trays, saving more than a million plastic trays from going to landfills.

“We design LEGO products to last for generations, but we recognize that much of our packaging will be thrown away. We want to give kids and parents every opportunity to recycle, and we are pleased that this Christmas millions of children will be able to recycle the trays and boxes of their advent calendar,”  – says Tim Brooks, Vice President, Environmental Responsibility.

How to Create a Christmas Penguin from your LEGO Advent Calendar

1. Open your LEGO advent calendar
2. Take out the sustainable tray
3. Cut off cup using a pair of scissors
4. Remove base of cup by cutting around with a pair of scissors
5. Draw a chest shape on one side of the cup using a pencil
6. Take some black paint
7. Paint cup black on all sides, apart from the chest shape you have drawn out.
8. Take some orange felt
9. Draw out a triangle beak and jagged feet
10. Cut out the beak and feet
11. Take some googly eyes and stick on black part of cup on top of white chest
12. Stick on the orange triangular nose just below the eyes
13. Glue on the feet to the inside of the bottom of the cup, so feet stick out.
14. Voila!

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