Christmas countdown!?

my little borther and i have a christmas tradition where each year i help him make an advent calendar to count the days until christmas. I am very stuck this year. I have done everything from a cottonball beard for santa to a paper link chain to building a gingerbread man etc. I have done it all, and this year, I need a new idea that is not too complicated but also really neat and original. I wanted to incorporate the true meaning of christmas in it, giving, not recieving, so i was thinking maybe having a chocolate for each day, and someones name on the back, so that instead of him eating the chocolate, he gives it away to someone else. any other ideas?