Christ-Centered Christmas Advent Cards
These Christ-Centered Christmas Advent Cards will help you focus on Christ each day with a scripture, hymn, and video.
Do you have Christmas traditions either from your childhood, or new ideas you have started with your own family that you hope will stay with them forever? I want to share with you my absolute favorite tradition that my family and I look forward to every year.
When our kids were little, I loved looking at all the advent calendars, countdowns, and crafts that were available, but I couldn’t find one that seemed to suit my needs just right. I spent countless hours creating this Christ-Centered Advent to share with my family year after year. Now it is one of our most looked forward to traditions each Christmas season!
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Christ-Centered Christmas Advent
Originally, I had seen a book similar to this idea on Pinterest. It was so long ago the link doesn’t work anymore and the website is non-existent. I loved what I saw and wanted to make a book that would suit the needs of our family even better. I loved how the book focused on a different part of the Savior’s life each day during December. With all the Santa Christmas movies and toy ads in the mail, I wanted a tradition that would help us remember Christ and the true meaning behind Christmas every day.
I took this idea and simplified it even further to create these Christmas Advent Cards that can be a fun display during the month, but also remind us of all the same things we love about our Christmas Countdown Book-songs, scriptures, and videos that help us to think about Jesus Christ all throughout December.
Christ-Centered Christmas Advent Book
For our family, we have printed out a book with all the scriptures and lyrics to the hymns, along with a picture for each day so we can easily pass the book around for everyone to read off of. You can get a copy of that here if you would like to print one out for yourself so you don’t have to look up each individual hymn and scripture every night.
If you are looking for the more simplified approach, these Christmas Advent Cards will be perfect for you to have all the information you need at your fingertips every night.
Scripture
Each day focuses on a different part of the Savior’s life. These events include his birth, teaching in the temple, his baptism, the miracles he performed, his death and resurrection, and the promise of his return again someday. These scriptures can all be found on churchofjesuschrist.org under “Scriptures“.
Hymn
A hymn or song from the Children’s Songbook is included each day. These songs help further teach the principles presented for the day. We will either sing the songs a cappella, or sing along with a recording. Through this website, you can print all the sheet music for free if you don’t own a hymnbook. The song is the part my kids look forward to the most!
Video
Each day includes a video. These videos are mostly from the Bible Video collection. Some are other videos created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have tried to be as descriptive as I can in the title to help you best find the videos just by searching on YouTube.
How to Use the Christmas Advent Cards
I like to keep things as simple as possible. The cards can be printed on cardstock and displayed however you choose each day. You may choose to do a garland with clothespins where you flip the cards over on the given day. You can use them as simple decorations on your tree. There are so many options!
For our family, this is a tradition we do each night as we are winding down for bed. We like to sit together in the glow of the Christmas lights and leave the night with a reverent tone. It not only helps calm us after the business of the day, but also serves as a great time for reflection on the reason for the Christmas season.
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I hope this is a new tradition you can enjoy with your family this Christmas season!
What traditions do you have to help you remember Christ at Christmas time?
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