Up to 30 copies - Advent Gifts: Hope, Peace, Joy, and high quality Love - a Devotional for Families with Children

This purchase is for printing up to 30 copies. Other quantities available in my shop.

In this printable, 9-page devotional designed for families with children in elementary school age and younger, you will find a weekly reading, prayer, and activity. Remembering that the magi, or wisemen, brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the Christ child we will practice giving and receiving God's gifts of hope, peace, joy, and love.

Each weekly activity is presented as a gift to open (prepared ahead of Advent by an adult using materials sourced from home) related to the weekly Advent theme. The gift box is then repurposed to share a gift of hope, peace, joy, and love with others. It is my hope that these devotions offer a moment of family faith time in a full season and an opportunity to reframe discussions around gift giving rooted in God's gifts to us.


In addition to the devotional and printables (designed for 8.5 x 11 inch paper), you will need 5 small (4x4 inch or so) gift boxes to package each of the weekly activities to open, a high quality rock, glue, scissors, crayons, and a piece of chalk.

Whenever I create a devotional I aspire to:
Make something that families with people of multiple ages will enjoy together
Keep the story of God central
Use simple, tangible, reusable, and earth-friendly materials to engage with the theme
Be mindful of busy family schedules

I'm especially pleased that this devotional offers families a way to talk about gift-giving in the context of our faith.
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