This year, the Lord has been stirring in my heart an intense desire to make sure the Happy Buddy understands that Christmas is about a birthday.
Jesus’ birthday.
We’ve decorated our home with lights and trees and gifts in anticipation of the birthday party.
We’ve read lots of books focusing on the birthday boy.
We’ve made a few crafts in honor of the Reason for the Season.
And we’re busy planning on making an awesome 3-layer birthday cake that tells the Good News (more on that to come!).
But there’s one more thing I am excited about sharing with the Happy Buddy this year as we prepare for our Lord’s coming.
The 12 Days of Christmas.
When I saw the idea over at THIS SITE, I fell in love and knew immediately that I wanted to make a set of our own cards complete with matching nativity printables so that the story of Jesus’ birth could once again come alive for our Happy Home as well as other Happy Homes around us.
Here’s the scoop…
This FREE Printable has 12 cards with poems that each tell a charming rhyme about a piece of the nativity. (I wish I could take credit for the poems, but someone else wrote them! When I asked around, no one knew where the poems originated, so if you happen to know – please share so that I can properly credit.) 
Then there are 12 nativity pieces to print and pair up with the coordinating card.
Each card has a Bible verse reference that you can look up with your Happy Buddies and read aloud as you interact with the cards during the 12 days leading up to Jesus’ birthday.
Here is a peak at what the cards look like…
Grab 12 envelopes and put the card and the nativity piece in the envelope.
Number the envelopes.
*You can put the pieces in whatever order you’d like. I thought it would be neat to end with the Jesus card.*
Once your envelopes are filled, cut out these super cute explanation tags and attach to a gift bag.
Deliver to someone’s doorstep on the 13th.
By Christmas, you, or the receiver of your gift, will have a set of 12 adorable nativity cards like the above.
As well as a set of 12 cards to tell His birthday story.
You can do this with your own Happy Home and/or for another Happy Home you want to celebrate Jesus’ birthday with. I am excited about doing both!
How I pray that this printable will open the door for lots of meaningful Christ-centered conversation in your Happy Home this holiday season as well as help you share the joy of His birth with the people in your world.
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Ok, ready for the printable?!
Click HERE to get your 12 Days of Christmas Nativity Cards!
Merry 12 Days of Christmas-ing!
*A BIG thanks to JW Illustrations for the adorable nativity graphics! And to my sweet friend Laura Beth and her mad Photoshopping skills!*
This works perfectly with the Little People Nativity set! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing all your talents with us…you inspire me everyday to find extraordinary moments tucked inside an ordinary day
love this, thank you so much for sharing, I have printed off just now and can’t wait to start.
Ps I have liked you on facebook and pinned it to my board
Again thank you
Thanks so much for the free printable. I have pinned it to my pinterest board and have sent it along to a friend to share with the littles that she watches each day. My 6 year old daughter will also love this! Thanks for keeping it real on your blog, and helping those of us out with no graphic art skills!
Thank you! These are darling!!
I can’t get it to open?
Christine, make sure you have the latest version of adobe reader on your computer! all of my printables are in PDF format.
I love Melanie’s wonderful idea, and I love the adorable graphics that you used to put together this great printable!!! Thank you so much for your generous heart and for spreading the spirit of the true meaning of Christmas!
P.S. I LOVE reading your blog, and I signed up for email notifications!
These are really well done! Love it!
These are just beautiful, Julie! Thank you for sharing this with us, I will love to share them with my Sunday School kids!
I pinned it to my board on pinterest and shared it on Facebook! I love them! We already have a Nativity Advent calendar that we are doing and these cards will work great with that! Thanks so much for sharing!
very cute! thank you for sharing. a friend referred me. I’ve never seen your blog and love it. signing up for email.
Merry Christmas
I can’t afford the Little People Nativity set right now, but my dad has a woodshop so I printed this off and I’m going to put the characters on blocks of wood (using modge podge) and make a simple stable and inn for my kids to play with. I’ll laminate the cards and put it on a key ring so we can do tell the Christmas story. Thanks!!!
I posted your link on my blog! I did this 2 years ago with my son and we’re doing it again this year! We delivered our first tonight and are soo excited!
http://rookietorockstar.blogspot.com/2012/12/thoughtful-thursdaynativity-ring-run.html
Thanks for the printables!
So today we focused on Baby Jesus’ mom Mary. I read our son Lou the verses about Mary and we put her picture up on the wall. I was feeling all warm inside after sharing this with Lou, he actually sat and listened and intently watched me find the verses in Luke! Moments later, I am around the corner and I hear, “Beep, Beep, Baby Jesus!” as Lou crashes his train right through his Play School Nativity set! Ho, hum!
Betsy – that is awesome! Gave me a smile this morning! We did ours and it was the sweet worshipful moment, and then the Happy Buddy is like “Can I have a chicken nugget?”