Got your Advent Candles ready?

Well, we can’t send you Advent Wreath candles, but we can give you ready-made Advent Calendar printables and activities, some of which you can use YEAR after YEAR!

Advent is such a cool Liturgical Season! Even the secular world is selling ‘Advent’ Calendars stocked with Lego, Funko Pops, or other treats, just as a countdown to Christmas! We can make our Countdown to Jesus’ Birth…all ABOUT Jesus with Bible Stories and Faith-filled reflections and activities, that point all along toward the Nativity.

This Jesse Tree / O Antiphon Advent Calendar is a coloring countdown with reminders of Jesus’ Ancestors and His Love for us.

The Advent Calendar Craft Kit combines the Jesse Tree, O Antiphons and December Saints Days, all in one calendar and includes templates for Jesse Tree ornaments and the St. Andrew Novena.

We also have just the Advent Calendar PDF alone features 2 different-sized templates for the Bible stories-packed wall calendar.

It also includes 36 Jesse Tree / O Antiphon / Christmas ornaments and the St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Prayer Tracker…and all of these you can print at home!

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Jumpstart your Advent Prayer!

Buy Prompt Me to Pray for your best buddy who prays, and pick up the Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas booklets to bump up your prayer right into the new year!

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Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Christmas Bundle

*The Prompt Me to Pray Booklets

are available by PDF or printed and shipped to you!

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Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Advent!

Anticipating Advent: Prep for Advent: Summary of Crafts and Activities
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The Advent Calendar

The Advent Calendar is a great way to countdown the days until Christmas.

Our own Jesse Tree and O Antiphon Advent Calendar is available by PDF and includes SO much!

This PREMIUM Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you countdown (and pray!) through the days of Advent, with:
+one Letter-sized (8.5″x11″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*

+one oversized (10″x15″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*

+36 double-sided (2.5″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon Advent Ornaments

+one fully illustrated Catholic Anticipation Prayer / St. Andrew’s Novena Prayer Counter

*ADAPTED for Advent 2023!

You’ll find lots of chocolate covered ones in the stores now, but you can make your own and fill it with dollarstore Nativity figures, holy medals, Saint pegs, Super Saints, printable Advent Quest challenges and of course your favorite treats or chocolates. There are so many ways to make an Advent Calendar (including this one we made years ago) and we found 35 [Awesome} DIY Advent Calendars here.

Fill up your Advent Calendar with faith-filled toys, treats and prayers:

*with Our Family Jesse Tree ornaments from Faith and Fabric

The Jesse Tree

The Jesse Tree is a wonderful faith-filled activity with Biblical symbols and figures and readings for each day of Advent. Jesus’ Lineage unfolds each day, leading up to His Birth on December 25th. You can make a nicely crafted banner like our The Family Handprint Jesse Tree and bring it out for Advent and Lent each year!

If you don’t want to just print yourself our BRAND NEW, SUPER EASY Jesse Tree Advent Calendar

The Advent Wreath

It can be tricky getting those 3 purple and 1 white candles at the last minute, so we often pick them up throughout the year when we see them…or we’ve been known to tie purple and pink ribbons around white candles, in a pinch.

We’ve also used Dollar Store Votive candles and dressed them up in purple and pink!

One year, we made this Mailbox Blessings Advent Wreath and wrote little notes to each other throughout Advent, placing them in these adorable little mailboxes.

Dollar Store Advent Wreath

DIY Advent Wreath with Dollar Store Votives

Advent Prayers

Advent is an excellent opportunity to ramp up our family prayers…morning, before or after meals, around the Advent Wreath, in the car (bustling around to different events) or at bedtime!

Here are some of our prayerful craft kit printables to get you started:

New Family Traditions

This time of year there is a lot of talk about different activities and family traditions to help focus Advent within the family. Don’t try them all at once! Choose one that’s right for you and get your kids involved to keep it going throughout Advent. If good deeds and sacrifices are part of your Advent tradition…consider Nesting…for Sock Baby Jesus.

This year we hosted a Sock Baby Jesus Workshop! Every kid made their own Sock Baby Jesus and we even made a couple more to give to a few other families in our Parish!