12 Days of Christmas, Day #4: Celebrating Advent
Welcome back to Day #4 of the 12 Days of Christmas tour!
If you missed any days, you can scroll to the bottom to get caught up!
Let’s get started with our tour – all the advent things!
I’ve celebrated Advent with my sons in many ways over the years. It’s one of our seasonal highlights.
For us, it truly helps us keep our focus on Jesus with daily Bible readings, and on others, with acts of kindness, not just on our Christmas lists.
We do the fun stuff too, but I go to great lengths to make sure we are celebrating the gift of Christ and what that means for us in our lives every day.
There are several ways you can go about celebrating advent:
- Advent candles each Sunday with a corresponding reading
- Advent calendars with daily ‘surprise,’ such as a piece of candy, an ornament, or other little gift
- Advent calendars with a daily ‘activity’ which can include Bible readings, acts of kindness or just a fun activity for the kids and family to do together.
However you celebrate advent, I’ve got resources for you.
Click on the images or links to get all the details for what you need to celebrate.
The idea of this is NOT to create more work or have this seem like a chore. It’s something that works for your family while at the same time, gives you intentional focus for the season!
Printable Advent Calendar & Fillers
This printable bundle contains daily calendars for Bible readings, acts of kindness, and family activities. You can do one or all of them daily! It also includes fillers for pre-made calendars that you might have with the same activities just on daily cards you can insert into your calendar!
You can grab it by clicking here or on any of the images. If you’re already a subscriber, it’s in the free library!
And, this has been updated for 2025!
Advent Wreaths & Candles
If you enjoy just a weekly focus on Sunday for advent, you can create a simple wreath like this one. In the post, I linked up to a several weekly reading guide that you can use with this advent wreath.
It’s a very simple and focused way to celebrate.
DIY Advent Calendars
If you’d like to create your own advent calendar, here are 55+ideas of ones you can create yourselves! There are all kinds of creative containers that your children can open each day!
Free Printable Advent Calendars
These advent calendars all are created from free printables. Not only are there fillers (activities, numbers, Bible readings, etc.), but paper templates for actual containers you can open each day!
Christ-Centered Advent Calendar Ideas
If you’re a believer and you’d specifically want advent calendars that focus on Jesus, I’m with you! Here are 30 Free Christ-Centered Advent Calendar Ideas
Advent Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdowns are so fun to do with kids! I created an Acts of Kindness Advent Christmas Countdown Calendar, with 12 and 24 Day options.
You can use a 24-day ‘done-for-you’ calendar. There are also pages where you can switch up the order of the days, or write your own! You can custom-design these for what works with your family!
Advent Devotionals and Bible Studies
Christmas is a great time to focus on the story of Christmas in the Bible and really dig into all the nuances of the story. If you’re looking for some good, free Bible studies, here are 20+ different FREE PRINTABLE Bible studies you can download. Several of them have options to include the kids if you’re looking for family Christmas devotionals!
However you decide to celebrate Advent, I hope it’s something special for you and your family this year! I’d love to hear what you are planning to do!
Be sure to check back tomorrow for Day #5!
ICYMI:
Day #1: Cozy Cottage Homemade Christmas Crafts & Decor
Day #2: Bloggers’ Best Holiday Home Tours
Day #3: Christmas Porch Crafts & Decor
