12 Days of Christmas gift 12 pieces of candy, each labeled with a QR code to an inspirational Christmas video! A fun gift idea for teens, families and friends! This post contains affiliate links.
This is a great gift for ANY Christian youth or youth group! All of the videos are New Testament based, and the Studio C comedy videos are good, clean fun for the whole family! COME BACK NEXT YEAR FOR A NEW SET OF QR VIDEO CODES to keep the tradition going!
You might also like our printable Young Women Christmas sock wrappers, our Young Women General Conference handout or our Back to School survival kit young women activity!
One of the challenges of giving gifts to teens is coming up with something practical, yet engaging. This 12 days of Christmas gift won’t end up on a shelf collecting dust, and won’t end up in the trash (at least not right away). It includes 12 Christmas videos to brighten their day the 12 days leading up to Christmas. It also includes CHOCOLATE. The labels in the images have “Latter-day Saint Youth” on the label, but I have labels that don’t have that as well. These are just what I used for our youth group.
Here is what some families and youth groups are saying!
12 Days of Christmas Gift: Video Links
The QR codes link to a selection of Youtube videos from the Latter-day Saints Channel, The Piano Guys, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, Studio C, and the Strive to Be Channel. Here are the links as a reference if you’d like to view them ahead of time. The QR codes are on a printable sheet linked in the supplies section and at the end of the post.
Day 1: Getting Into the Christmas Spirit- The True Meaning of Christmas
Day 2: Santa’s Elves Go On Strike (Studio C)
Day 3: Far Away
Day 4: Gifts of Christmas
Day 5: The Greatest Gift
Day 6: Christmas Is
Day 7: Angels From the Realms of Glory (Largest Nativity Scene/The Piano Guys)
Day 8: O Come, Emmanuel (The Piano Guys)
Day 9: What Shall We Give? (The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square)
Day 10: The Coat: A Story of Charity
Day 11: Elf on the Shelf Gone Wrong (Studio C)
Day 12: The Christ Child: A Nativity Story #LightTheWorld
For those who would prefer a device-free option I’ve included 12 scripture references from the New Testament and Book of Mormon that can be used instead. I had a request from someone who said many youth at her church don’t have cell phones, so scripture references would work perfectly. Another option would be to find 12 quotes about Christmas and print those, one for each day.
Each QR code is cut out and attached to the back of a piece of candy. You can use Ghirardelli chocolate squares, peppermint patties, or a variety of holiday candies depending on your budget. We’ve given the young women $5 fleece throws or cozy socks in the past, always keeping the budget between $3-$5 per girl. This gift fit right within that budget.
Supplies Used
- 16 oz. containers with lids
- Ghirardelli Chocolates (or any kind of candy)
- Paper Shred (optional)
- Copy Paper
- Scissors
- Printable QR Codes
- Printable Lids
These containers are perfect for holding 12 pieces of candy. You can add a bit of paper shred to fill in any gaps, but it really isn’t necessary. The printable lids fit these containers EXACTLY. If you use different containers simply attach the label to the front or side, or tie the label on with string!
12 Days of Christmas Gift Printables
QR Code Option (click Links Below)
Device-Free Option (Click Links Below)
(These scriptures include verses from the Book of Mormon and New Testament)
Thx so much for this idea. I live a small town in Texas and need help with ideas.
I’m so glad that you found this helpful!
This would be great as a ministering gift as well! Could you make a label without youth on it??? Thank you!
Hi Melinda! I have a tag for Latter Day Saints as well. Hope that helps! 🙂
Love this! It is worth noting that Day 2 and Day 11 are the same video with the Elf on the Shelf by Studio C.
Thanks for letting me know! The QR codes are correct, I must have just pasted that link twice in the link list!
Thanks. I looked at the QR code for 11 but didn’t check to see if QR Code 2 was different. As you said, it is. Very fun idea! Thanks for sharing!!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Hi can you link the labels you used to print them out on? The lid and the candy ones?
Hi Jessie! I printed them onto copy paper and cut them out and attached them with double sided tape. Sticker labels would be faster for sure!
This is adorable! Is it possible to receive it as a jpeg or png so I can cut the circles and squares for QR codes with my cricut? It doesn’t support PDFs, but I love the idea! Thanks in advance!
Sure thing! I’ll send it to the email listed in your profile!
Could i receive the same thing also? Thanks so much for the cute idea
Would you be willing to do a label that just says, “12 days of Christmas “ and nothing else on it??
Sure thing!
Could I get the same thing (the label with just 12 Days)? And a HUGE thank you for this! Merry Christmas!!
Hi Janelle! There are labels that just say “12 Days” linked in the supplies section. “Labels for Everyone” 🙂
What a fun, cute idea!! Thanks so much for sharing
Hi! Love the twelve days of Christmas Printable. Thanks for sharing! You mentioned in a comment that you got ice cream containers that fit twelve chocolates and the cute label on top. Would you mind sharing the link to the containers that you ordered?
Sure thing! https://amzn.to/3FjMJeq
Did you make a tag with instructions to go with this? Absolutely love this idea!
Thank you sharing!
I do not have a tag with instructions. I figured the youth could figure it out with the codes. 🙂 And, thank you!
I like the idea of having instructions. I made them for all the youth in our ward and gave the girls their instructions personally. Then as I am walking down the hall, I see all the YM throwing the codes away and munching down on the candy. So I asked a couple of the boys and they said they didn’t know what they were for. I mean boys will be boys but I felt like all my hard work was going out the window and they won’t even get the messages. I’m going to add instructions to the rest of the ones we need to deliver to kids that weren’t at church today.
This is so great and a lot of work on your part! Thank you for sharing your time & talents with all of us. Much appreciated! ❤
Thank you for your sweet comment! This was a lot of fun to come up with! 🙂
Can you tell me what font you used to make the round labels for the lids? Our Young Women group wants to create a little tag with each girl’s name on it and some instructions for watching the videos each day. I just wanted to copy the font you used.
Thanks so much for putting this wonderful idea together!
Hi Sharlene! I used PicMonkey to create the labels and the font is: KAYTO SANS
This is so awesome! Is it possible you could post the labels as a jpeg or png? I would love to cut these with my cricut, but it won’t work with pdf files. Thank you!
I’ll send them to your email address linked here!
This is amazing!!! Thank you so much for the time and talent you have put into this! Super excited to give this to our girls. A meaningful gift with chocolate! Can’t get any better than that!
You are welcome! So glad that other leaders are finding this helpful!
I love people like you to make people like me look so good!! Thank you for your talents and for sharing them with us all. You have a fan for life!!
Thank you so much for this! I’m going to send it to my nephew for Christmas on his mission!
Oh that’s a GREAT idea!!
Thank you for sharing your talent. I appreciate it. May you have a blessed Christmas season!
Thank you, you too! 🙂
Love this idea and the presentation. So cute! Thank you for making my life as YW Pres easy! I used your cute sock tags last year and am printing these ones for this year. Can’t wait to see what we give next year! 😉 ha! I appreciate your help so much!
Amy, that is awesome! Thank you!
Hey! We are hoping to do this for our Young Women, but I can not get them in a printable format. DO you mind sharing the .pdf version for the lids, QR codes and the Scriptures? I would appreciate it SO much! Thank you for all of your time and efforts!
Hi Jess! They are all in pdf form. Did you try clicking on the links and downloading to your computer?
“Latter-day” is the proper spelling. Can you change it, and I will send in an order. Like others have said, thank you so much for sharing your talents with us!
Thank you! If it was spelled wrong I’d redo the labels, but I think it’s ok with the uppercase “D”. I used PicMonkey to create them if you’d like to make a new label to use with your group!
Thank you for your idea, I used the QR codes and scriptures together and stuck them to the windows ( I cut off the numbers) on a shop bought chocolate advent calendar. That worked out cheaper than buying everything for the 12days in Australia. Excited to give them to the YW next week.
Oh, that’s a great idea!!
I am trying to print the scripture boxes on the back of the QR- but it’s reversed when i do it… any tips on how to do this- without printing them both and glueing them together?
It they were reversed… 4-1, 8-5, 9-12… they would print perfect
Hi Christine! I’m not sure how to print them back to back like that. I’m sorry!
Your hard work really helped me out of a pinch! Thank You!
Yay! I’m so glad!
I ABSOLUTELY love this! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much!
Hi, Avery has 3.5 inch diameter labels as well as 1.5 inch QR code labels, is it possible to format so that these would work?
Avery Template Presta 94514
Avery Template 22805
Thanks!
Hi Amy! I’m not sure how to do that, I’m sorry! Not super tech-savvy. I just cut these out and used sticky dots to attach to the candy.
Could you possibly do a label to go around the cup itself to dress it up a bit?
Hi Amber! I don’t have enough bandwidth to do that this week, but maybe add a ribbon?
Ok. Thank you! Can you share your file with me and I may try to create a label if I have time. I just want to be sure I have the same font and colors.
Great! You can download the files within the post under the “supplies used” section. It’s a pdf unless you needed a png version? I created them on Picmonkey so the fonts should match perfectly in there.
A huge THANKS to you Brandy! We handed these out as Christmas gifts to our young women today. This gift is so fun and also helps to focus our thoughts on the Savior. It’s absolutely perfect. Thank you so so much for sharing. You are a creative genius!
Kimberly, thank you! It was so fun passing them out in our ward today, too. They were a hit!