This Children’s Advent Calendar Printable adds a bit of fun and memorable traditions to your Christmas. 30 children’s advent calendar ideas and cards for the whole family.
I originally shared these advent calendar cards for children, but I have realized since I began using them, and even more so after you all have been using them, that they are really great for the whole family!
I absolutely love Christmas! It is, without a doubt, my favorite holiday. I love everything about it.
The smells of Christmas trees, cookies baking, and cooler weather in the air.
The sights of bright Christmas lights, houses decorated in their holiday best, and stockings hung by the mantle.
I love the sounds of Christmas carols, the Salvation Army Christmas bells, and, of course, the laughter that just goes along with so many Christmas activities – especially where kids are involved.
But most of all, I love the feeling of Christmas.
Without getting overly sappy or preachy, let’s say I love the feeling of family, faith, and celebrating the holiday in spiritual and fun ways. I enjoy taking the four weeks before Christmas, the Advent season, to create special memories with my family. We have traditions that are absolute must-dos, like visiting the live nativity at our church, but I also like to incorporate other things to keep things new as well.
While my family celebrates Advent in a spiritual way, we also have a children’s advent calendar for memory-making and fun activities to do with our son. Some days include silly activities – like PJ day – while others are more thoughtful – such as sending a Christmas card to a soldier or baking something for someone special.
I thought I would share the cards I’ve made for our fun advent calendar that you can print and use with your own family.
There are 30 fun Christmas activity ideas that you can select your favorites to use. You can print the cards on the paper of your choice and then cut them into individual cards. Then, you can add the cards to your family’s advent calendar or even create your own by making an envelope for each day and placing one of the cards inside for that day. Then, you can countdown along with your children by enjoying that day’s activity together!
Please note I’ve made my Children’s Advent Calendar printable available for personal use only. I definitely hope you enjoy all the fun in store for your family this Christmas season.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
From the Add a Pinch Living archives, originally published 2012.
Thank you so much for sharing! I want to make an advent calendar for a friend family and this is so helpful. 🙂
What a wonderful thing to do for a friend, Tess! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
You are most welcome, Michelle. I hope your family enjoys it. Merry Christmas!
Found you on Pinterest! Thank you for these great printables! My daughter and family (including their 4 kiddos) are living with us while her husband readies their new fixer-upper. They’ll be with us through most of December, so it will be fun to put these in my advent calendar and have little things to do with them each day!
Hi Kim! Welcome!
What a fun Christmas season you’ll have with your grandchildren in the house! They’ll be so excited about your having fun things planned for each day, and what wonderful memories they’ll have of this Christmas! I hope you enjoy the printable. Merry Christmas!
Love this idea — so cute, Robyn!
Thanks, Tara. It is definitely a lot of fun and something to look forward to every morning as we open each day’s envelope.
Such a cute, cute idea!!!
Thanks so much, Miss Amy!
What a fun idea Robyn! My kids would love this. 🙂
We enjoy it. I hope your kids do, too!
This is a great idea, I don’t have kids but could definitely do some of these things on my own!
That would be fun! Such a great thing to do as a couple. We do the activities as a family, so they should work great!
What a cute idea! I was just thinking about advent calendars and coming up short on ideas. With four kids, those tiny hidden treasures never work unless I buy four of them. I love this idea!
Thanks, Shaina. I love that these are things that the entire family can enjoy and really are more about time together than things. I hope your sweet family has a magical Christmas season!
Love this list! Our little guy is turning 15 months in a few weeks and it’s fun to start family traditions around the holidays.
Oh how fun, Liz! Such a great age where everything is exciting and new. I hope y’all have a wonderful Christmas!
how cute- thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much, Elizabeth.