Colouring Advent Calendar
Print and colour this original advent calendar for kids and create a
keepsake that will be treasured forever!
With just a little preparation in advance, you can use the colouring printables to create a pretty advent calendar banner, an advent envelope
display, or even an advent colouring book. It's great for all ages of children so
can be enjoyed by the whole family (or even a classroom of kids) - we even have
two versions, one with a countdown and one with "words and pictures" for early
readers!
How does it work?
Simply pay securely (via Paypal) and you will be taken to a download page to
receive a zip file with two copies of the Colouring Advent Calendar, the countdown and the "words
and pictures" version. You decide which, or both, to print. Make as many copies
as you need, for your children, your classroom, or your group. Then cut out the
individual pictures and keep them ready. (NB Each advent calendar has both US
and UK spellings where necessary).
It's that simple! Just click the button below to pay securely through Paypal,
or scroll down for ideas on how to use the colouring advent calendar.
Using the Colouring Advent Calendar
We suggest putting the small colouring pages immediately inside a numbered envelope, for the
children to open each day. Alternatively keep them face down in a pretty
Christmas box, and make a "production" out of opening it each day and removing
the latest mini colouring page. In a classroom setting you could simply hand out
the page when children finish their work, or have one waiting on desks in the
morning for each child. At home you could even hide the correct colouring page
each day and have a "hide and seek" game to find it!
If you have a "bought" or made advent calendar with good-sized pockets, you
could roll up one of the colouring pages, tie with a ribbon, and include one each
day - what a nice alternative to too many sweets and chocolate!
Here are some more ideas:
Envelope Banner or Display
This is a good method if you want the children to have the surprise of
opening something each day - and of course you can slip something else into the
envelope like a chocolate coin or other Christmas treat!
Put each colouring page into a numbered envelope, and hang the envelopes from
a Christmas ribbon. As your child finishes the colouring, attach it to the front
of its envelope so that the colouring becomes part of the display - we used a
red shiny paper clip to do this, but you could use glue stick too. If you
prefer, mount the envelopes onto a large decorated cork board, stand them in
line on the mantelpiece, or arrange them decoratively on a wall with sticky
tack! Perhaps your child could number the envelopes before you fill them - you
could make an afternoon of it, use all your craft supplies, and have some fun
together! We have some number printables below to use as templates, and numbers
cut out of gift wrap or Christmas
scrapbook paper would look very pretty.
At the end of the season, seal up the back of the envelopes, glue the
colouring pages to the back of each envelope, and tie in a bundle or gather
together with a book ring and store as a lovely keepsake.
Our simple card advent banner ready to go!
Simple Card Banner
If you don't have envelopes, or want to use another method to distribute the
colouring pages each day, you can create a simple card banner like the one above.
Why not enlist your child's help to make it? Hand out the colouring page each day
and when finished, stick it over the
appropriate number on the banner. By Christmas Eve there will be a beautiful
display of your child's colouring which you can all enjoy! At the end of the
season, disassemble, tie with a ribbon or fix together with a book ring, and
store as a very special keepsake. Or bring it out next year to repurpose as
Christmas cards, gift tags and so on.
Last year we hung the banner above up in our kitchen with one piece of
coloured card for each day, 1 to 24. I used two sets of templates for this:
Advent calendar
numbers large - I printed this directly onto red and green card. The numbers
alternate so that you can use two colours to good effect.
Advent calendar
numbers small - I printed this onto white paper and stuck it on top of red
gingham card (I printed using our gingham scrapbook paper, which you can find
here).
Colouring
advent calendar templates
I used this template page to size the gingham card. I had planned to get the
children chopping up last year's Christmas cards as backing cards for this
project, but sadly remembered at the last moment that I had already chopped them
up to extend our Christmas jigsaw game!
You could peg the cards to a ribbon, tie them as I have done, pin them to a cork
board, display them using a Christmas card display device, or simply stand them up in card-file style.
Advent Colouring Book
Advent Colouring Book - ready to go! Ready for 2011 ...
This is a perfect idea for those of you who will be travelling this Christmas
and therefore don't want to put up an Advent Calendar Banner - and it makes a
wonderful keepsake to pack away and pour over every year with the Christmas
decorations! To make mine, I stacked 6 pages of A3 sugar paper, sliced them in half and in half again to
give 24 prettily coloured pages. I printed off this cover:
I stapled the whole lot together along the left edge.
We then had some fun designing the inside pages. This would make a great
family project for the weekend before December. Gather together last year's
cards, gift tags, wrapping paper and our printable numbers, if required, and cut
and stick to number each page ready for the colouring page to be stuck in on the
day! You can use our template to leave a special space ready, as we've done
here:
More than one child in the family? Using the calendar in the classroom?
- Make one banner and one book for each child, and alternate which child's
picture goes up on display each day. This might work in the classroom, too.
The days which are left blank in the child's book could be filled with a
picture of the child from that day.
- Make a book each - forget the banner!
- Choose a child's colouring to display each day depending on behaviour,
alphabetically, etc
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