The time is approaching for Advent calendars and Christmas stockings - but what do you put in them?

It will soon be here again – Christmas is just around the corner, and the children's Advent calendar still needs to be filled!

As every year, the question arises of how to find useful nick-nacks to put behind all 24 doors. Pelikan's products offer numerous possibilities for creating a 2009 Advent calendar that will not only delight but also be useful: The Advent season is always also a time for making things.

To make creative handicrafts easier and more enjoyable for your children, the PELIFIX® adhesive stick and the PELIFIX adhesive roller® are the perfect pre-Christmas gift idea. And handy as they are, they will fit superbly behind any Advent calendar door! Whether packed individually or in packs of five or six: Pelikan's brightly printed cartridges will provide just as much pleasure in the Advent calendar as in the Christmas stocking, while bringing yet more colour to the school day: not only are the trendy cartridges available in many different theme variants, they also come in two different sizes.

To match the cartridges, Pelikan offers the trendy Future school fountain pen, which has been designed specifically for the junior target group. Thanks to its transparent casing, this writing instrument provides a fantastic view of its inner workings – the perfect setting for the brightly coloured ink cartridges, which can be viewed through the fountain pen. The Future thus acquires a new look with every cartridge change. Before you know where you are, Christmas Eve is just around the corner, and there must be useful gifts under the Christmas tree too – for example, the griffix® learn-to-write system!

Not only do the children get four pens in a variety of colours, specifically designed to build on each other and fit to take them from pre-school through to class four – they will also be helped to achieve beautiful handwriting, thanks to the world's first learn-to-write system with an innovative grip zone. Older brothers and sisters can be surprised threefold on Christmas Eve: with the innovative Terceto text marker trio in a practical case, which contains the three mini text markers in the colours green, yellow and orange. At the simple press of a button the mini text marker springs from its holder in the desired colour, and can be used immediately. Whether in the Advent calendar, the Christmas stocking or under the Christmas tree: with Pelikan products parents can be sure of giving their children gifts that are not only beautiful, but also useful!