Free Printable Advent Games, Crafts and Activities

Advent 2009 began Sunday, November 29. For the next 25 days we will prepare our hearts for the coming (Advent) of Jesus. Here are free printable Advent coloring, puzzles, crafts, calendars, wreaths and activities to celebrate the season. I have been exploring and testing links for free printable Advent activities to keep children busy productive and happy as they prepare for Christmas.

Catholic Kids (click here) is a division of Catholic Mom. I've featured this site before and am pleased to be able to present to you, as a family, homeschooler, catechist or religious education instructor, these advent activity links.

Sunday Gospel Reading Activities This links takes you to the new Catholic Mom Sunday Gospel readings homepage. Each Sunday is listed, with appropriate priestly vestment colors and type of mass: feast day, ordinary time, penitential season, advent, lent, major holiday, etc. By clicking on each Sunday, you will be taken to the page with activity and pdf links based around that week's gospel reading. Each gospel reading generally has a link for a coloring page, puzzle and lesson. Below are links for individual advent activities.

books.google.com (click here) gives you an entire e-book entitled Big Book of Ideas for Children's Faith Formation: Crafts and Activities (click here for book) This book is filled with hundreds of Catholic crafts and lessons and has a huge section of free printable advent activities.

Annunciation lesson plan with free printable crafts.

Advent chain free printable advent chain with daily activities.

Advent Saints craft

Advent Wreath coloring activity Give this link some time to load as it is rather large. It will open as a one page pdf of an advent wreath to color.

Advent Bingo Game Print and play advent bingo.

Advent Wreath File Folder game print this two page pdf for the game background. Click on this link to take you to the other pdf links for free printable game pieces, instructions and questions. Scroll down for a list of clickable links for all the free printable advent activities. http://new.catholicmom.com/2009/11/22/sunday-november-29-2009/#more-6966

Advent Crossword puzzle: free printable two page crossword for Advent.

Advent puppet show: Pdf with script and puppet craft.

Altogether, these links from Catholic Mom and Our Sunday Visitor should provide families with more than enough crafts and activities to take them through advent to Christmas and into Epiphany. Remember to print out the free printable Jesse Tree activities I've listed in this article Free Printable Jesse Tree Coloring, Ornaments and Activities.

For more advent activities, visit me at www.theadventseason.blogspot.com. For more Catholic activities, visit me at www.catholicactivities.blogspot.com. For more free printable crafts on all holiday, visit www.freeprintableholiday.blogspot.com

May you know and feel the light of Advent.