She was up before me
"My daughter is eight and she has never once needed waking in December. She is downstairs at the box before I am out of bed. The toys are properly soft and she has lined every one of them along her windowsill."
MerrySquish Christmas Calendar
24 doors, 24 mystery squishies and one jumbo behind the last one.
24 mystery squishies
One jumbo squishy behind door 24
Soft, non-toxic TPR
Recommended for ages 6 and up
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A 24-door countdown calendar with a different soft squishy toy behind every door.
24 mini mochi squishies plus 1 jumbo squishy, in a printed gift box with a 24-cell foil-sealed tray. Soft non-toxic TPR. Recommended for ages 6 and up.
One door a day, from the 1st to Christmas Eve.
Ships within 24 hours.
We have a 30-day money-back guarantee.
30-Day Guarantee
Open a few doors before you decide.
If the toys are not what you expected, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we will refund you. You do not need to send the box back and you do not need to have kept every squishy. Fewer than 0.5% of customers ever ask.
Over 10,000 boxes opened
What Parents Say First
Verified customers on the mornings, the mystery, and the twenty-four days.
Not one repeat
"I bought this half expecting twelve toys and twelve bits of filler. Every single door was a different character and the jumbo one at the end is genuinely big. My son counted them out on the rug and then counted them again."
I kept it on my desk
"I bought it for my niece and then bought a second one for myself, which I did not plan on. Three of them live next to my keyboard now. Squeezing one while I am on a call has become a thing."
The jumbo one got a name
"The last door has a much bigger squishy in it and my daughter named it immediately. It has been carried around the house for a week. For the money I could not have bought twenty-five separate toys that got this much use."
WHAT'S INSIDE
What is actually inside the box
The whole appeal of a mystery box is that you cannot see inside it, and that is also the reason people hesitate before buying one. So here is the entire contents, listed out, before you decide.
1
24 Sealed Doors
Twenty-four square cells sit in a clear tray under a foil seal, numbered one to twenty-four. A child presses a thumb through one door a day. Nothing needs opening with scissors and nothing needs an adult.
2
24 Mini Squishies
Every door holds a different soft mochi squishy about an inch tall. Snowmen, Santas, gingerbread people, polar bears, penguins, presents, candy canes, little trees. They squash almost flat and rise slowly back into shape.
3
1 Jumbo Squishy
Behind the last door is one squishy roughly three times the size of the others. It is the one that gets named, carried around and slept next to, and it is why the twenty-fourth morning does not feel like an anticlimax.
4
A Gift-Ready Box
The box arrives finished. Printed lid, ribbon-ready proportions, nothing to assemble and nothing to wrap. You can hand it over exactly as it comes out of the shipping carton.
WHAT IT IS
A Countdown With Toys In It
MerrySquish is a countdown calendar with a small soft toy behind every door. There is no chocolate in it, so nothing melts, nothing gets eaten before December and nothing is gone by the twenty-sixth. What is left at the end is twenty-five toys a child actually keeps.
Twenty-four mornings, and something to show for all of them.
24 doors, one for every day
A different squishy behind each one
One jumbo squishy behind door 24
Arrives gift-ready, no wrapping needed
HOW IT WORKS
Three Steps, Every Morning
One door a day, 24 days
STEP 1
Find Today's Door
The doors are numbered one to twenty-four across the lid. Start on the first and work along. Children find their own door faster than adults do.
STEP 2
Press Through The Foil
A thumb goes straight through the foil seal over the cell. No scissors, no tabs to tear and no adult required to open it.
STEP 3
Squeeze It Flat
Take the squishy out and press it flat between two fingers. It holds the shape for a second and then rises slowly back. That second is the whole point of the toy.
I have bought a countdown calendar every year since my eldest was three, and this is the first one where the toys outlasted December. The chocolate ones are gone by New Year. These are still on the windowsill in March, and my youngest still squashes the big one flat every time she walks past it.
The Numbers
Twenty-Five Toys, Counted Out
The things a product photo does not tell you.
MERRYSQUISH VS. A CHOCOLATE CALENDAR
What You Still Have On The 25th
What is left on the 25th of December.
What's inside
After Christmas
Who opens it
Repeats
Waiting
Keeping
24 soft squishy toys and one jumbo squishy
Twenty-five toys that get kept, collected and squeezed
A child opens their own door with a thumb
Every door is a different character
The wait is the product, and it lasts 24 mornings
Nothing melts, nothing spoils, nothing is eaten early
A Chocolate Calendar
24 pieces of chocolate
An empty cardboard tray for the recycling
Often opened by whoever gets there first
The same shape repeated behind most doors
The wait ends the moment the chocolate is eaten
Melts in a warm room and cannot be kept
What's inside
After Christmas
Who opens it
Repeats
Waiting
Keeping
24 soft squishy toys and one jumbo squishy
Twenty-five toys that get kept, collected and squeezed
A child opens their own door with a thumb
Every door is a different character
The wait is the product, and it lasts 24 mornings
Nothing melts, nothing spoils, nothing is eaten early
A Chocolate Calendar
24 pieces of chocolate
An empty cardboard tray for the recycling
Often opened by whoever gets there first
The same shape repeated behind most doors
The wait ends the moment the chocolate is eaten
Melts in a warm room and cannot be kept
FAQ
Still Have Questions?
Twenty-four different mini squishies and one jumbo squishy, twenty-five toys in total.
Each of the twenty-four numbered cells holds one soft mochi-style squishy about an inch tall, sealed under foil. The characters are Christmas ones: snowmen, Santas, gingerbread people, polar bears, penguins, presents, candy canes and trees. Behind door twenty-four is a jumbo squishy roughly three times the size of the others. The assortment varies from box to box, so two calendars will not be identical.
There is no chocolate and nothing edible in the box, so nothing melts and nothing spoils.
This box is not suitable
if a child is under three, because the toys are small enough to be a choking hazard.
A squishy that stays soft and slowly rises back into shape after it is squeezed. Some of the toys have a slightly tacky surface, which is normal for this material.
Ships within 24 hours. A tracking number is emailed to you as soon as the box leaves.
Yes. The toys are made from soft non-toxic TPR and the box is printed card. Recommended for ages 6 and up
Door one opens on the 1st of December and door twenty-four opens on Christmas Eve. If you start later you can simply open two a day to catch up, which children enjoy more than they should.
Some of them are slightly tacky to the touch, which is what makes this kind of squishy feel the way it does. If
they pick up dust, rinse them under a tap and pat them dry.