Need some ideas for your family during Advent? These Christian Advent Calendars for Kids will help you teach your children about the incarnation of Christ!
The word Advent means arrival. Not just any old arrival, but the arrival of someone really important. During the Christian celebration of Advent, we remember the arrival of the King of the Universe, Jesus the Christ.
The Jewish people waited a long time for the promised Messiah. The prophets told of us of God’s great plan for salvation long ago. When Jesus was born, those he called knew him to be God-made-man, the Son of God, the long-awaited Christ.
When we celebrate Advent today, we remember the incarnation of Christ, and we await his second coming, when he will finally judge the earth and bring peace and harmony for all who love him and are called according to his promise. That’s a pretty amazing celebration!
This Christmas Advent season, help your family focus on both the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, and on his coming again. Help your kids understand God’s great plan for them. These Christian Advent calendars for kids are great tools to get your whole family focused in the right direction!
Christian Advent Calendars for Kids
1. Grab this free printable Christmas Advent Calendar with Bible Verses. You’ll find verses from both the Old Testament and the New Testament to read each day with your family that center on a theme like The Promise of Jesus, Jesus’ Family, Jesus’ Royalty, and more. Sign up below!
2. Use this printable Advent calendar for kids with 24 Advent readings to create a devotional banner you’ll want to use year after year.
3. Do your kids love LEGOs? Do a Jesse Tree Brick Challenge with them. You’ll find verses to read, fun challenges, and printable ornaments.
4. Learn more about the Jesse Tree Advent tradition and make your own ornaments.
5. Check out this Jesse Tree ornament kit and reading plan on Amazon.
6. Grab this free Jesse Tree reading list for the Action Bible.
Kurt Adler Wooden Nativity Advent Calendar with 24 Magnetic Piece
Nativity Fabric Advent CalendarThe Birth of Jesus Advent Calendar and Nativity SceneLovepop Nativity Advent CalendarPrecious Moments Nativity Advent Calendar
7. Check out this classy Protestant take on the Advent wreath. This would be a neat craft to save year after year: DIY Modern Advent “Wreath” with Mason Jars.
8. Do a Christmas book countdown with printables. (Also check out the Best Christmas Books for Kids).
Great Advent Books for Your Kids
My Christmas Activity Book: 25 Days to Celebrate Jesus’ BirthJourney to the Manger Advent Calendar (Adventures in Odyssey)Bartholomew’s Passage: A Family Story for Advent (Storybooks for Advent)Ishtar’s Odyssey: A Family Story for Advent (Storybooks for Advent)Tabitha’s Travels: A Family Story for Advent (Storybooks for Advent)Jotham’s Journey: A Storybook for Advent (Storybooks for Advent)
9. Use this free printable Bible verses to read for Christmas and Advent when your season is especially busy.
10. Here’s another take on the Bible verse Advent Calendar.
11. Sing your way to Christmas with this Christmas Carol Advent Calendar. She had editable ones so you can add your favorite Christian hymns.
12. Here is one mom’s way to craft through Advent.
The Advent season should be a special time of wonder for our kids as they contemplate the coming of Jesus. Let’s make this Christmas about more than gifts and lights!
Your kids can learn about the Bible, who God is and more with this fun daily devotional for kids. With 12-months of Bible verses calendar printable sheets, your family will concentrate on a monthly focus. There are six days of reading each week, each day with it’s own focus within the monthly theme.
Your 12-month Bible verse calendar has themed devotions focusing on:
- The Bible
- Love
- The Church
- Resurrection
- Jesus
- Prayer
- The Holy Spirit
- The Fruit of the Spirit
- Salvation
- Our Father
- Thanksgiving
- Advent
Want a sample calendar? Grab your free Christmas Advent calendar here.
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Introduce your children to engaging stories written in an engaging narrative they’ll want to read. As they learn more about God’s Word and gain real-life heroes, they will learn to apply Scripture to their own lives. And, give yourself the gift of a book that will help your kids learn and love the Bible.
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I love Advent calendars. This is wonderful!
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Thanks for the great advent ideas!
These advent calendars are great! Thanks to all the bloggers for a wonderful giveaway
We love choosing a new advent observation/devotional every year. Thanks for all these ideas. Thanks, too, for offering the giveaway.
I have never done an advent calendar. Growing up we had an advent wreath with devotions every night, but since I have been married, we have only done it once (it wasn’t something my husband grew up doing). My neighbor has an advent calendar for each of her children, but I have never asked her about what exactly it is.
We always get so excited for Advent to begin! My kids love the Shepherd on the Search.
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Yes, we need to be thankful. My daughter has been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia due to emotional origins, so she is in talk therapy to deal with this. We all are trying to come to grips with what this year has been, my husband losing all of his work due to covid, me struggling to exist on my 30% lung capacity and avoid covid at all costs, and my daughter now struggling with Fibro. In July I started her on a Thankful journal, writing down 5 things at the end of the day that she is grateful for. She has done it every day and has quite the list! I can never get enough of being Thankful,…the Lord has given us so much to enjoy, the freedoms in this country,..my husband reminds us every day!
Thank you for your reminders too. I will be reading this as a devotional one evening this week!
The advent season is so precious to us as a family. I grew up with a very commercialised Christmas experience as a non-Christian, and only started doing a Christian advent theme when my oldest was about 6. I made my own Jesse tree then, and a few years later found a wooden boxed advent calendar like the ones you have advertised here, on a post Christmas sale. It had been damaged but we fixed it, and every year we put a names of Jesus verse in each door, along with a chocolate ball. Praying that my now-teens x 3 will hold these memories precious and reenact them with their own families one day. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for all of the hard work you put into this blog to bless others.
You bless so many with your blog and various items of Biblical interest and growth!
We did advent calendars when I was little. We haven’t done one since though. Lots of ideas.
We love Jotham’s Journey! These other resources look great too!
I am an avid fan of advent calendars and I’l definitely be looking for these!
Advent calendars are so much fun. Thanks for sharing all fun ideas.
I have always loved Advent calendars. They give us hope and remind us each day is a joy. Thanks for cohosting this contest. How wonderful it would be to win. I am hoping for the best.
I love the advent calendars! This give away is a blessing for sure!
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Thank you for participating in this giveaway. It would be such a blessing because my husband was off work for 3 months because of health issues.
great giveaway!
Thank you an amazing giveaway! Advent calendars our a family tradition, so many great ideas!
There’s so many cute calendars to choose from! I can’t afford one at the moment, but I would get so many of these if I could.
These are so nice but not affordable for me
I love the Christina advent calendar. So many just have candy or a meaningless toy.
I love the hanging fabric calendar! We have one from my childhood (with a Christmas tree and toys), but I love the idea of a Nativity one that’s not quite so fragile!
I’m so excited for all the resources you put out! I’m going to be homeschooling in January and love all the tips. Also, I love all the activity ideas to help keep Christmas Christ centered. So grateful!
i love advent calendars and i really want one for each kid
Thank you for making me aware of all the wonderful Advent Calendars. The Christmas Carol one is my favorite.
happy happy holidays