Advent

This year we decided to attempt doing Advent with the kiddos.  What is Advent?  I am still learning but it appears to be a daily bible study that takes place Dec 1-25 and takes you through the Bible and God's story.

We have been using a free version I was able to download from Austin Stone Community Church.  It has a reading plan along with little pictures that relate to the story that the kiddos can color.  You can get it here!

Another great thing about this Advent study is it provides not only the readings in the Bible but also gives page numbers for the same story in The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones.  It's a great children's Bible!  We bought these for our kids this year for Christmas. When we found out the Advent we downloaded used it we let them open a Christmas gift early.

So far the kids have enjoyed reading their Bibles...even though we end up having to paraphrase the stories because their attention span is so short.  They are excited to get their Bible every night, look at the pictures, and find out what picture they get to color that night.  Here are a few examples of what they get to color and of course it goes right on the fridge.