Nativity Advent Calendar

I have been shopping for a Nativity Advent Calendar but I haven’t found exactly what I am looking for.  What I had in mind was some kind of cute box with 24 or 25 little doors that open, and room inside for figures for a nativity scene.  Preferably already stocked with the figures!  I do have child friendly nativity sets, but haven’t found any boxes that would fit.  So I decided just to make one on the computer for this year.

 

I made this calendar with spaces to put a picture for each day in December up until Christmas Eve.  Then I realized that Owen (who LOVES numbers) would probably like to be able to tell how many days left until Christmas, so I revised it:

Next I made slightly smaller boxes and filled them with all kinds of Christmas clipart pictures.

If you have one of those Nativity calendars with small boxes or doors, you could cut apart these pictures and put them into the boxes instead of candy, etc.

There are a few extra choices on this sheet because I knew Owen would like to pick the pictures he liked best each day.  The idea is for him to choose a picture and glue it on the calendar every day.  His cutting is improving, but he might need some help with this!

In Kindergarten we always made a Kindness calendar.  At school we made a Santa face that was numbered to count the days until Christmas.  Each child counted out 25 cottonballs and took them home in a plastic baggie.  I sent home a note and a list of kind things children could do each day to earn the cottonball for their project.  If you’d like to see that – check out my posts for December and Christmas last year.  You could easily use the Kindness ideas along with this Nativity calendar too!

December Kindness Calendar

I thought all this clipart was so cute that I decided to make another project.  I wrote out the story of Jesus’ birth and printed clipart to go on each page.  My idea is to read the book to my little bunnies and add a picture each day through the month.  By Christmas the whole book will be illustrated.

Here is a link to see how it looks – I printed out the book pages and put them into a red folder with prongs, and glued the cover on the front.

Christmas story

Nativity calendar pictures

cover

Here are printable copies of the calendar too!

December calendar

December calendar coundown

calendar pictures

Do you get as excited about Christmas as I do?  It’s even more fun sharing it with grandchildren!

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