Great Advent Ideas for Kids
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Great Advent Ideas for Kids, Smalls and Littles
to help Keep Christ in Christmas by preparing hearts in Advent.
Simple, Joyful Ways to Help Children Prepare Their Hearts for Jesus
If there is one thing we know about children, it’s this: they learn faith with their hands before they learn it with their heads. Want a meaningful way to incorporate Christ into Christmas ornament designs.
Give a child a candle, a crayon, a craft, a song — and suddenly Advent becomes alive.
So let’s make this holy season meaningful (and fun!) for our kids, smalls and littles with activities that point straight to Jesus, teach virtue naturally, and create family memories they’ll carry forever.
1. Make Jesse Tree Ornaments (DIY or Printable!)
This is hands-down one of the BEST ways to help kids understand the story of salvation. Each ornament tells a Bible story leading to Jesus.
Ideas:
- Use our printable Digital Ornament Kit
- Let littles color one symbol each day
- Hang them on a small tabletop tree or a branch in a vase
- Celebrate every day with a rhyme, Scripture, and a prayer snippet
Children love adding ornaments — it makes Advent tactile, visual, and beautiful.
2. Light the Advent Wreath Each Night
Kids never tire of candlelight.
Use those few minutes to:
- Sing “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
- Let your littles blow out the candle (their favorite part!)
- Say a simple prayer they can memorize
It becomes the holiest 90 seconds of your evening.
3. Make a Kindness Advent Calendar
Behind every door is:
- “Make someone smile today.”
- “Give a compliment.”
- “Draw a picture for Grandma.”
Tiny hearts learn big virtues when they practice them daily.
4. Create Advent Prayer Spaces
Let kids:
- Decorate a little shelf
- Add purple cloth
- Place a nativity scene (with Baby Jesus hidden until Christmas!)
- Add paper stars for every good deed
This teaches reverence through play.
5. Sing Advent Songs
Teach them one verse of:
- “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
- “People Look East”
- “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus”
Short, sweet, prayerful — and they’ll hum it all day.
Saint Quote for Moms and Littles
“Let us love God, my children, at the price of our little sacrifices.”
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Those “little sacrifices” — coloring a Jesse Tree card, sharing a toy, lighting a candle — these are the seeds of holiness.
You’re planting them, mama.
And heaven sees it.
Frequently Asked Questions
By celebrating each day with Scripture, prayer, and Jesse Tree ornaments, embracing acts of love, and remembering that Christmas begins with Christ’s coming, not just on December 25th.
An Advent wreath is a circle of evergreen branches with four candles—three purple and one rose—used by Catholics and many Christian families to mark the four weeks of Advent. Each candle represents a theme of the season (Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love), and lighting them week by week helps us prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus, the Light of the World.
Advent is a Christian season of anticipation and preparation before Christmas, inviting us to reflect, pray, and wait in joyful hope for Jesus’ birth and His Second Coming.
Hi, I am Rebecca Even
CEO Of A.M.D.G. Productions LLC
Catholic author, Speaker, Songwriter but not a singer, Rebecca Even is a wife and mother with a passion for working with women especially mothers of all ages.
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