There is a nice tradition in Europe called advent calendar. Usually such a calendar is a box with 24 small sections with a chocolate inside each of them. The sections themselves are numbered randomly from 1 to 24. In general, it looks similar to this:
The purpose of advent calendars is to give them to kids so that every day, starting December 1st and until Christmas, a child can open one door and receive their daily chocolate. Like this you teach a child discipline and make waiting for holidays more exciting to them at the same time =)
But why is it only children that could use some holiday excitement and discipline training? Meet a great Swiss invention here:
Open one door every day =)