It’s the time of year to grab your supplies and get busy creating Catholic Advent crafts for your family!
My kids have been busy going through my Pinterest boards and deciding on their favorites. We have enough ideas to celebrate all the way through the 12 days of Christmas, and then on to the Epiphany.
You’ll want to bookmark these ideas and have fun with your little ones!
During Advent, we’re going to be utilizing the free Advent Adventure program from Holy Heroes. My kids are anxious to get started!
Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids – Advent Wreaths
We keep Advent wreath ideas simple around here, but if you’re the crafty type, I found loads of Advent wreath crafts and activities for you to peruse.
First things first, you’ll need an Advent wreath for your family. (no worries — I’ve got you covered with a few choices here)
Advent Candle Kit‘Make Your Own’ Beeswax Advent Taper Candle Kit – Makes 3 Complete Advent Taper Sets – DIY – Do It Yourself!
Beeswax Advent Taper Candle Making Kit – Makes One Advent Candle Set
Purple and Pink Wax Pillar Christmas Season Advent Candle Set of 4, 6 Inch
Christmas Advent Candle Set (Set of 4)
<nopin=”nopin” alt=”Christmas Advent Candle Set (Set of 4)” width=”150″ height=”500″ />Don’t forget your candles, either. For the record, you’ll need some taper candles (skinny tall ones), as well as a pillar candle. In the taper size, you’ll need 3 purple, 1 pink, and 4 white. Once Advent is over, you’ll switch out your purple and pink candles, changing them to white to denote Christmastide.
You can also roll your own beeswax candles. This idea looks like a lot of fun, but requires that I plan ahead, which can sometimes be a stumbling block.
Resources:
- Illuminated Ink’s Advent Candle Kit (DIY)
- Roll Your Own Beeswax Advent Candles (enough for 3 wreaths)
- Beeswax Candle Kit
- Flameless Advent Candle Set (You’ll have to have a wreath for pillar candles, but these are flame free)
- Pre-Made Advent Candle Kit
If you want to craft your own Advent wreath, take a look at some of these ideas:
- Family Advent Wreath Craft from Sweet Little Ones
- Advent Wreath Rip Activity from Sara J Creations — great for fine motor skills!
- Advent Wreath from Catholic Icing – more fine motor work
- DIY Advent Wreath from Premeditated Leftovers
- Simple Pipe Cleaner Advent Wreath from When Running Amok
- Advent Wreath Printables from Look to Him and Be Radiant
- Wall Sized Advent Wreath from I’m Going and I Like It
- Felt Advent Wreath Activity from Adventures with Jude
- Christmas Wreath Cupcakes – perfect for eating for dessert during Advent
- This Christmas wreath from KiddyHouse can serve as a base for your child friendly Advent wreath
- Free Fun Christmas has a sweet Advent Wreath Coloring Page that you can use with your younger children.
- Loving Christmas has a step by step tutorial for a traditional Advent wreath with greenery
Catholic Advent Printables
Check your ink and paper supply. I found a myriad of advent printables for your family — ideas for lapbooks, activity cards, coloring pages and more.
Resources:
- Family Advent Activities Printable from Real Life at Home
- Catholic Advent Printable from Raising Little Saints
- Advent Lapbook from Three Sided Wheel
- Advent Coloring Book from Blessed Beyond a Doubt
- Free Jesse Tree Ornaments from Holy Heroes
- Nativity Finger Puppet Printables from Craftaholics Anonymous
- Printable Nativity from Catholic Icing
- Printable Paper Nativity Scene by Made by Joel
- Printable Color Nativity Scene from Papertoys
- Advent Calendar Printable from Mama Teaches
- Loads of Advent and Christmas printables from DTLK Bible
- Jesse Tree Printables from Wind in a Letter Box
- Names of Jesus Printable to Study During Advent by Satisfaction Through Christ
- Advent Activity Cards from Learning Mama
- Advent Coloring Pages from Ministry to Children
- Printable Nativity Advent Chain from Catholic Icing
- Printable Advent Calendar from Freshly Planted
- Nativity Printables from ThoughtCo
- O Holy Night Printables from Capital B
- Free Advent Copywork
Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids – Saint Nicholas
Resources:
St Nicholas Printables
St Nicholas Paper Shoe Craft from InCulture Parent
Everything You Need for a St Nicholas Day Party from Catholic Inspired
Wooden Spoon St Nicholas from Sycamore Stirrings
St Nicholas Miter Craftivity from Kindercraze
St Nicholas Sight Word Reader from Kindercraze
St Nicholas Printables from Making Learning Fun
St Nicholas Figure tutorial from Catholic Teacher Resources
St Nicholas printable calendar craft from First School
- The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale
- Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend
- Saint Nicholas
- A Gift from Saint Nicholas
- The Real Santa Claus: Legends of Saint Nicholas
Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids – Blessed Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe
December brings us so many Catholic holidays! You can celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe with these easy shrine crafts.
We paid homage to Our Lady of Guadalupe with our favorite Advent activities: a special dinner, making tilmas, and Mexican Wedding Cake cookies!
Books to share:
- The Lady of Guadalupe
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Talking Eagle and the Lady of Roses
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Coloring Book
- The Beautiful Lady
Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids – Saint Lucia
Need resources to help you celebrate St Lucia Day? We’ve collected books, crafts, activities and recipes for your family to enjoy this season. Honor St Lucy with some of these ideas.
Books to peruse:
Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids – Advent Calendars and More
How do you help children count down the days of Advent, while making sure to focus on preparing our hearts for Christ’s birth? This interactive children’s Advent calendar from Loyola Press gives kids a visual reminder and offers small challenges for children to grow in grace.
I plan to be more intentional during Advent this year, focusing on time with my family. I’ll be able to enjoy time with my children and create family memories with these Advent activity cards.
Don’t forget the Advent music – including one of my very favorite Advent hymns, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”.
Making Music Praying Twice (our Catholic homeschooling music curriculum) has Advent coloring pages to accompany the hymns you’ll be teaching your children. Don’t forget to listen to music samples there, too.
Pressed for time or energy? You can check out these Advent craft kits and calendars to make your days a little less hectic.
- ALEX Crafty Advent Calendar Kit
- Little People Nativity Calendar
- Nativity Sticker Advent Calendar
- Holy Family Advent Calendar
- Foam and Wood Advent Wreath Kit
What are your favorite ways to celebrate Advent with your family? I’d love to hear your ideas for Advent activities!
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Welcome, Janis!
Thank you for featuring our advent wreaths. I loved them so much that I saved them to put out again this year. We’ll have to remake the chain, but that will be fun. Your round up is wonderful.
You’re so welcome, Kelly! We’ll be doing some sort of variation of Advent wreaths later this week. I’m excited! Hope to see you here again!
Hi Dianna,
I’m working on an advent round up post and would love to include your link for the crafts. Would you mind if I included your link with picture?
Also, I would like to invite you to join a group board I have called Inspiration Must Follow Catholic Moms http://www.pinterest.com/chelseythall/inspirational-must-follow-catholic-moms/
If you’d like to join just follow the board and I’ll send you and invite !:)
Love your blog! 🙂
Chelsey
Chelsey,
Thank you so much! You’re more than welcome to include this in the roundup. I’d love to see it!
I’ve accepted your invite and started pinning! Excited to be a part of this group.
some lovely ideas on here
thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments x
Thanks, Jamie! I appreciate you stopping by!
These are amazing and we made a wreath ourselves this weekend – the candles are a fab idea thank you.
I’m digging under the cabinets to find my stash for the Advent wreath — I need some toilet paper tubes!
Thanks for coming by!
How many great ideas of crafts for the Christmas break! I have pinned it for then. Linking in from MagicMoments.
My kids are super excited! Thanks so much for stopping in.
We just pulled out all of our decorations and advent items for this year! These are some really fun ideas, thanks for sharing at Take it on Tuesday!!
Thanks for coming by, Kelly! We’ve got some great things planned for the following weeks! I’m glad you found this helpful!
What alot of lovely crafts, I really want to make an advent wreath with the kids. Thanks for joining in the Monday Parenting Pin it party. 🙂
Advent wreaths are a lot of fun! I’m so glad you came by!
Hi,
Thank you for linking up my Raising Little Saint Advent printable! LOVE this blog post, so many great links and ideas!
🙂 +JMJ+
Hello, Erika! We’ve got even more to share this week — my kids are super excited about Our Lady of Guadalupe and St Lucia! So much fun!
Great to see you, my sweet friend !
I love the advent wreaths – easy to make but such a great decoration!
Oh those advent wreaths are just wonderful – and a great craft for toddlers too. Thanks for inspiring.
I love the chocolate santa turned into St. Nicholas. Fabulous! This is a really nice roundup for Catholic moms (or dads).
Those Advent wreaths look like a lot of fun to make for kids of all ages. What a beautiful tradition to pass down and celebrate.
Love this! I am adding those advent wreaths to our crafts for this month. Thank you for a great collection. 🙂
Super cute stuff — as always… Thanks for collecting all these great ideas in one place. MWAH!
This is great and definitely something I can add to my Advent traditions! http://thewhitfordlife.com/16-beautiful-easy-advent-traditions/ Thank you!!