24 Unique Advent Calendars for Men Who Love Meat, Beer and Super Heroes

This artistic advent calendar is perfect for the man who, like me, is still enjoying the calming zen of puzzles he started doing during the harrowing pandemic days. There are 12 days of easy-to-manage, 80-piece puzzles featuring Warhol’s 1950s retro Christmas paintings and drawings to get your guy relaxed and ready for holiday cheer.

’Tis the season for meat! Give your man 25 days worth of bite-sized jerky in flavors like honey bourbon, wine, pepperoni, and BBQ habanero.

Let him experiment with different grooming products — in a manly way, of course — with this extra-large advent calendar. It has fun products like shampoo, body wash, lotion and hair gel, along with tools he might need, like clippers, tweezers or a pumice stone.

If he likes fidget toys or solving physical puzzles, this 24-day advent calendar will let him exercise his brain as he figures out how to detangle two dozen interlocking metal pieces during the holidays.

Funko Pop! Collectors and Marvel fans will love to open up two dozen 2.25-inch holiday-themed mini-versions of their favorite heroes like Christmas lights Groot and gingerbread boy Captain America. Not a Marvel guy? No worries because Funko also has advent calendars for The Office, DC Super Heroes and many other popular franchises.

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No matter how hold he is, he will never outgrow his love of LEGO — or Star Wars. Combine the two with this advent calendar, which lets him build out mini ships and other vehicles while collecting minifigures of characters like Ahsoka and Princess Leia (Christmas garb).

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Give him something to snack on while he goes about his holiday business. Each day for 24 days, he'll get different kernels or seasonings to try — or combine to try out new flavors. He can go with some really unusual flavors, including spice blends that taste like French toast, dill pickles, baby back ribs or chocolate chip cookie dough.

The most delicious advent calendar comes all the way from Scotland and is filled with an assortment of buttery shortbread cookies in a variety of fun shapes. They'll go great with his tea or coffee!

Take a decal each day, stick it to the tree, and you'll have an advent calendar that roots for the home team. You can also get this for the Packers and Steelers, among others.

Don't be a cotton-headed ninny-muggins — if Elf is his favorite holiday movie, get him this advent calendar. It comes with 25 small things that will surprise and delight him, like stickers, buttons and keychains. If he's not an Elf fan, you can also opt for other Insight Editions advent calendars, including ones themed around Beetlejuice, House of the Dragon, Skyrim, Fallout, Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, Batman, Marvel, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone or Dragon Ball Z, among others.

Whether he’s in a long-term relationship or just starting out with a new partner, every couple could benefit from some fresh December date ideas. Each day of this advent calendar gives him three activity options, ranging from PG to NC-17 on the spice-o-meter, ensuring he and his significant other will have some real fun under the tree this holiday season.

For the guy who has everything, this fun advent calendar for men gives him a little bit more of everything he loves. He’ll enjoy 12 days of spicy bar nuts, artisan jerky, craft beer and cool cocktails.

For the football-obsessed guy in your life, there’s this TeenyMates 24-day advent calendar with a football stadium and mini helmets for him to collect and display all year long.

Keep him warm and toasty his winter with a dozen hot sauces for him to try on his wings and burgers. The heat ranges from sweet to spicy and includes flavors like Zombie Apocalypse with bhut jolokia peppers and mandarin oranges, Psycho Curry with garlic and turmeric, and Sweet Onion Habanero infused with scorpion peppers.

This advent calendar is the gift that keeps on giving for beer lovers who want to taste twelve of the best craft beers of 2024. He’ll crack open a variety of stouts, ales, and IPAs from some of the greatest microbreweries across America. Does he prefer bourbon or seltzers? There are also advent calendars for canned cocktails and hard seltzers, along with other fun boozy advent calendars.

If he loves waking up to a fresh cup of Joe from his Keurig, these 24 pods to savor each December morning will put a pep in his step during the holidays. No Keurig, no problem! Buy him the Door County Coffee advent calendar with 12 days of full coffee bags!

We might not say it out loud often, but what men really want from their true love isn’t a partridge in a pear tree. Instead, we’d love 12 days of pampering in the form of bath salts, balms, body wash, bars of soap and so much more.

If he loves fresh jam on his bagels, scones, and toast each morning before work, this wildly popular annual advent calendar will brighten each and every dark December morning leading up to Christmas Day.

Every guy I know enjoys solving a riddle and fixing a problem — it’s what we (try) to do best. This new Exit game blends the best aspects of an advent calendar with a fun adventure story to provide clues for 24 days to help him try to find a missing Hollywood star, alone or with help from his kids.

For the family guy, this clever book offers up 25 days full of quizzes, jokes, games and old-fashioned British Christmas crackers to bust open up together with his kids every day in December!