Children's Lesson Support for Advent - Sunday School Advent Calendar
In the Sunday School classroom, a typical day-by-day Advent calendar requires you to catch-up each Sunday. Our 2009 Advent calendar for the Sunday School classroom focuses on the days you share together -- Sundays! A special page for each of the 4 Sundays in Advent shows the date, the number of days until Christmas Day, and offers a Bible passage all with bright and charming illustration. REVISED COUNTDOWN METHOD
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2009 Advent begins November 29, 2009 This is really a teacher/classroom activity |
What is Advent? Advent means waiting and preparing for Jesus' birth at Christmas.There are 4 Sundays in Advent, and they count back from Christmas. 4 Sundays to prepare your heart and mind for the Christ child. This is ideal for the Sunday School classroom! There are only 4 pages, one for each of your Sundays with the children. Or you can make enough copies for your children to take home! NEW - A page with a full November and December Calendar to count the days! Start your Christmas crafts at the beginning of Advent. |
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Advent encompasses the Old Testament prophecies as well as the New Testamet Christmas story beginning with Mary's message from the angel. Passages from Isaiah are noted on each Advent countdown page. | ||||||||||||||
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Color print activity pages |
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Younger children would enjoy verbal countdown each Sunday starting from Three!. Use the November - December calendar to count the days. Talk about the signs (Symbols) of Christmas
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Simplified 4 Sunday Advent Countdown calendar- Fits the days you share with your class - SUNDAYS! For younger children (P-K) prepare one set of the pages and review each Sunday. For grades 1 and up, get a monthly calendar to count the days as they appear in each of the pages. Have the class decide on the number to fill-in the blank. Disputes may occur! The number will depend on if you count through December 24 only and if you count the day you are on. Just agree on your own rule and follow it for all 4. YOUR CHOICE: 4 individual web pages or one complete Word Document! 1. Print the 4 pages. 2. Stack them in this order: Top page is the first Sunday in Advent (countdown
3) You have options. Option 1: You can staple or glue the tops of the pages together and then pin them to a bulletin board as a group Option 2: You can just pin them to your bulletin board in the order shown During each Sunday in Advent ( the date is show on each page) remove the old page to show the current date, and the current COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS. Option 3: Have each child make and take home their own Advent Countdown using option 1 above. Do one of our other Christmas crafts or activities in preparation for Christmas. The true Advent idea. Opinion: What do you
think? Should grocery stores, big box stores and other stores display
Christmas stuff before the first Sunday in Advent? DSeems not if they
follow the Christian calendar! It certainly dilutes the anticipation! |
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It's your choice to OPEN or SAVE the
Microsoft Word Documents. You can print the document when you open it.
You must have Microsoft Word on your computer to open this document.
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Print Individual web pages For color printer
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Sunday School Resources FOR KIDS
from the Sunday School Director of Christian Education of Faith Congregational
Church, Mount Prospect, Illinois
©Jo Dibbern
Advent Activity for Children's Religious Education, Christian Education, Sunday
School and Home School
