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Advent Devotions for Busy Families Paperback – November 22, 2014

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Simplify your teachable moments and make this Christmas one to remember! Are your holidays a cuddly, reflective time of making memories with your children? This year, they can be!

Instead of a frenzied blur of activities and crisis shopping, your children can learn the true meaning of Christmas. Advent Devotions for Busy Families is a simple guide for bringing families together to celebrate and learn about the Reason for the Season.

  • 25 devotions for every day in Advent
  • Free ornaments for each day to copy and color
  • Free activities to engage the whole family
  • Scripture readings for each story
  • Fascinating facts about Christmas trees, poinsettias and other symbols of the season.

Candy canes, decorating a tree and Christmas cookies are all opportunities to teach children how they relate to the birth of our Savior. With free ornaments to copy, cut and color and many free activities, this Advent devotional will bring your whole family together in a Christ-centered way.

Advent simple, meaningful and done!

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    November 22, 2014
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Candy cane, Jesus, crook, Shepherd, Gingerbread house, peppermint

A fresh, new approach for Advent devotions

All the tantalizing elements of the season are given a fresh, new treatment in this unique Advent book.

Rather than trying to steer children away from the excitement of goodies, this book harnesses that enthusiasm into devotions that demonstrate why Jesus is the Reason for the Season.

You'll learn why candy canes represent Jesus' healing work—what the verse, "By His stripes we are healed" means, and how candy canes are like a shepherd's crook as well.

Every day has 2 different ornaments to color and cut out.

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Planner pages to help you organize Christmas!

A little something to help you organize all the Christmas activities is available for you as well. Helpful pages of gift tags, traditions, gift ideas, an Advent calendar, and gingerbread cookie recipe.

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All the traditions—even Christmas cards—can point to Jesus

When we open Christmas cards from family and friends, now our children will make the connection between them and the Bible. Just as Christmas cards often contain highlights from the year, God's word has highlights for us. They will remember that the Bible is like God's Christmas card to us!

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2 ornaments to color and cut out for each day—plus blank ones

No more fighting over coloring pages! Every day has 2 different ornaments, plus blank ones as well. That way, everyone gets a chance to color in what they want.

Studies show that doing something with our hands while listening can help solidify the stories in our brains. If your child is a "hands on" learner, reading this book while they color might be the perfect fit.

Making Memories has Never Been so Simple!

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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brookmill House Publishing (November 22, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 87 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0985015039
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0985015039
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.21 x 11 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Laurie Kehler is the author of This Outside Life, Gardening Mercies, Wings of Mercy and Advent Devotions for Busy Families.

She grew up in Wisconsin where kids ran wild, unsupervised and full of wonder. The Green Bay Packers will always hold a special place in her heart as well as dark chocolate. Laurie and her family live in the San Francisco Bay Area where they enjoy hiking, biking and exploring.

To learn more about her other books, podcast, or speaking opportunities, and download a FREE audio chapter, plus free prayer journal pages to download, please visit https://www.LaurieKehler.com/amazonfreebies.

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Oceansummers
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally the perfect Advent devotional for young ones!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2016
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Love this! Just arrived yesterday & I read through it this morning to see what I might need to have on hand for the activities. My kids are 8, 5, and 1 and this is perfect! A short, interesting reading for each day that weaves together the meaning of various Christmas traditions with a Bible verse and devotional focus. I love how the author helps young ones think through the meaning of Christmas by the symbols they will naturally see all around them this season & connect them to Jesus (i.e. Christmas lights = remember Jesus is the light of the world, Christmas cards = remember the Bible is God's card to us, etc.). Then there is a simple activity suggestion at the end of each reading along with a Christmas ornament to photocopy & color. Beautiful, simple, meaningful....my littles will LOVE this! I have tried a couple others & read about a bunch more and am so, so happy to have finally found a wonderful fit for our family to enjoy Christmas but keep the focus clearly on what matters most....it's all about Him!! Give this one a try this Christmas!
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Two Brown Birds
5.0 out of 5 stars Cute :)
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2022
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This devotional is cute and the activities look like fun! Unfortunately it felt a bit too young for my kiddo (almost 8).
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Zephyr
3.0 out of 5 stars Good for VERY young children, under 5.
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022
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I had bought this intending to use with my son, who was about 7 at the time. The "devotions" are extremely basic. The activities are mostly coloring activities - which my kiddo hates. I didn't use it at all. I would say this would be best used for a homeschooling family with pre-k to kindergarten aged children as a break in the day during the Christmas season.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good advent devotional
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
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I really like the simplicity of this. We are enjoying the writings for each day. I did not give this 5 stars because I spent a lot of time and wasted a lot of paper copying the ornaments for each day. A suggestion would be to put all the ornaments at the end of the book, maybe on cardstock, so we could just tear the pages out and color them much easier.
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BP
5.0 out of 5 stars Good to use for the month of December
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2016
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This was great. We used it daily as another book to go along with our Jesse tree/home school activities in December. Some of the sections I didn't incorporate, and I didn't use any of the enclosed ornaments you could color and copy, but instead had my kids create a scene on paper using each days lesson, and in the end they had a whole sheet that looked like a Christmas living room setting. I did angel wings with their hand prints, and they decorated an angel like that, and some items we did on another nativity sheet. Overall, it's a great book that tells where most of the traditions that we celebrate today come from, and overall that's what we used it for was a resource book.
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AR
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016
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Better than what is was looking for. We have been reading a story a day and doing activities to go along with it. We have three boys 11, 9 and 6, but this could be geared up or down based on age. We are not coloring the ornaments that came with, but that would be great for younger children. We went and looked at Christmas lights after reading the lights story, made cookies after the cookie one, random acts of kindness after the St. Nick story, made Christmas cards after the Cards one, etc. Great for family time and celebrating the true meaning of the season.
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AJM
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful devotional for old and young!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2016
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We have tried quite a few Advent devotionals for our family and have never been totally satisfied but we have finally found a WONDERFUL devotional! These devotions by Laurie Kehler are excellent! They teach and celebrate in a way that interests adults and children alike! It is very special! This is the second year that we have used it. We really love it!
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Ryan S.
5.0 out of 5 stars We love the way this devotional provides great perspective on common ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016
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After years of using the same devotional for our family Jesse tree, we wanted something new and bought this book. We love the way this devotional provides great perspective on common Christmas traditions and helps our kids (ages 6 & 8) see Jesus in the world around them. We put the ornaments on our tree nightly and this book helped us keep our family focused on the reason for the season.
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Hill B.
2.0 out of 5 stars The ideas are good but there is a lot of extra work
Reviewed in Canada on November 28, 2016
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You need a photocopier for most of the activities. The ideas are good but there is a lot of extra work, you can't just use it.
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F. Garwood
5.0 out of 5 stars This looks great. Simple to use
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2015
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This looks great. Simple to use, but good content and lovely ideas to focus the whole family in the run up to Christmas. Can't wait to start it.
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