One my most popular Christmas posts is the set of 24 cards I created several years ago that tell a little piece of the Christmas story each day (you can see them HERE).
I love those cards, but I wanted to make a set that was a bit more kid-friendly (the earlier printable was written using the King James Version of the Bible).
This brand new version was created using the International Children’s Bible and the Easy Reader’s Version of the Bible. Plus, I did my very best to keep the verses short and without some of the more challenging vocabulary for little ears – like taxes and virgin.
I am all for educating our kids and having rich conversations with them about the Christmas story, but a 2-year-old is usually not ready to sit and listen to a sermon about the history of Caesar Augustus, the Roman Empire, and the great census. They typically just want to move along to finding out whether or not they can have some chicken nuggets for lunch.
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Christmas is about Jesus. So let’s capture their little hearts and minds with a simple, fun, Christ-centered countdown to Christmas!
These little cards are the perfect size for Advent Calendars!
They also fit just right with your Elf on the Shelf or Shepherd on the Search each day!
If you’re looking for a meaningful way to celebrate Christmas this year and remember the One who it’s all about, I know you will love these cards!
**Click HERE to get your FREE Printable 25 Bible Verse Advent Countdown Cards!**
My heart is to see homes everywhere focusing on Jesus this holiday season! Would you please share this post with your friends and help me spread the word about this exclusive FREE Printable? Click the sharing buttons below!
Thank you so much and Merry Christmas!
Joyfully,
Julie 🙂
*Click HERE to see 12 more amazing, Christ-centered Christmas ideas for your family!
These cards are super sweet. I have your earlier set from a few years back. They have their own specialness now as they have been interwoven into our family’s traditions and memories. Special memories. Thank you.
These are exactly what I was looking for! Do you mind if I share this with parents at our Parent’s Day Out program?
Thank you so much for this wonderful printable! This will be the third year I will have used them with my three kiddos. I love the new look and the kid-friendly language. This is a wonderful way to keep our eyes focused on Christ at Christmas!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I appreciate you doing the prep work on these! My first grader will love reading their little “surprises” in the advent calendar.
Thank you for these adorable cards!
Merry Christmas!
I have been looking for advents for my 2 yr old that don’t involve sugar or attention spans and this is perfect! We can read the verse a few times a day and act it out with her stuffed animals! Thank you so much for your ministry and heart for children. Our family frequents your blog and we love using your resources!
Thank you for these adorable (& FREE👍🏻🙏🏻) verse cards! Exactly what I was looking for, will be using at home for my 7 grandkids & for my 2-3 year olds in my Sunday School class…..they are perfect!
Thank you!! These are wonderful!
Can I still get the KJV version? I use it exclusively and would prefer it. Do you still have it available?
Hi Stephanie! Yes, you can get the KJV version here – https://happyhomefairy.com/bible-verse-advent-cards-free-printables/!
This is beautiful! Have you ever considered making it in Spanish? I will send you the verses in spanish if you are interested. I will use it with my family.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for these! Just what I needed. Thank you for your generosity in sharing them. God Bless.
Perfect for our family of five, thanks so much!
Thank you very much for these!
Thanks! These are exactly what I was looking for. I hope y daughter will like them.
Thank you!!!
Hi Julie
I’m new to your blog as I was looking for an advent calendar and I see your but I don’t see the link. The link I see is for the cards, but is the Advent Calendar the same as the cards?
Thank you, Merry Christmas to you & your family! And Thank you☺️
Thank you so much for PDF! Merry Christmas!
MY PLEASURE, Annie!!
Good evening
I’m looking for this kind of nativity story for m’y children’s advent calendar and yours is very nice. I really like the pictures. Is it possible to send me the version whitout the text in order to translate it in french ( because I’m french)? Then I will share with you the french version. I don’t have any blog.
Have a good evening.
Solenne
We’re having our very first Advent calendar this year and I so loved this. Perfect for my 6 yo. , easy to understand and very nice design. your creation will be part of our family tradition. Thank you so much!
Thank you for letting me know!!!
This is wonderful. Thanks so much, happy Christmas and God bless you
My pleasure!!! Merry Christmas!! 🙂
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to make these and for making them FREE to other families!
That blesses me to know! Thank you for taking the time to comment!!!
Love these! We used them last year too. Thankful for you!
Thankful for YOU!
Thank you for creating and sharing this! Will be a blessing to our family! Merry Christmas!
Such a blessing for me to help your family! Thank you for commenting!
Thank you for sharing this with others. They are cute and perfect for my youngest.
Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for to use with a gorgeous magnetic advent calendar my Mum has given us. I’m really looking forward to using this with my 3-year-old this year! :oD
(from a fellow pastor’s wife in Australia)
oh that makes me so happy!
Just want to say thank you ! These cards are adorable 🎄❤️
Aw thank you Lawana!
Thank you so much for these. I am so excited to finally be doing something meaningful with my children as an advent calendar. You are awesome for sharing. Christmas blessings to you and your family from across the globe in New Zealand. 😊
THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!
Thank you, I have been looking for something similar for so long! Merry Christmas to you and your family
Thank you so much for these cards, they are exactly what I was looking for to add to our Advent calendar and it didn’t take me long to find them!
These are so perfect! thank you so much for making this available =)
Just want to let you know what a blessing your posting is! I teach a dozen + 2nd & 3rd grade Sunday School class and today we took your 25 advent countdown to Christmas cards and made a red & green paper chair with them! Started with a red strip & day #1 – pasted it to chain & made a circle, took a green strip, pasted #2 onto it and added it to chain #1! And so on until we had a 24 chain completed project. Kids then took the printout for Christmas day, signed their name on the back, put it in an envelope addressed to Jesus with whatever message for Him they wanted to add (heart, I love you, etc.) and took it home to put on their Christmas Tree! Each day they will take off a chain, and read the verse with their family! Can I just tell you how many parents, upon seeing the chain and envelope, thanked my husband & I as teachers for this project, as they wanted to do something for Advent and didn’t have time to get it ready! Some of the younger kids complained after about 12 or so chains, thinking it was too hard, but we discussed how hard it was for Jesus to leave Heaven and come down to die for us! I would seriously recommend this to any family or SS class, Youth Group, etc. to use next year! It is a true blessing and winner!
I am a teacher at a christian school. I am not able to download these the way you are set up. My school has a lock on being able to download things. Could you please email this to me so I can use this with my class. Thank you for what you are doing for the kingdom.
Blessings,
Gale
Thank you so much for the printable Advent calendar verses. I have purchased a keepsake wooden calendar for each of my grandchildren. Every year, I try to find stickers or bells or anything small that seems to go with a Bible verse. This year it has been difficult for me to find the time to do the research for meaningful verses. Your work is beautiful and will be meaningful to my precious little boys! I hope this Advent season blesses you with wonder and peace.
About halfway through cutting these up, and so far they are perfect! I have 6 kids 6 and under, so my productivity is primarily limited to after bedtime; I wanted to make a list like this but realized it wasn’t going to get done on time that way. So many advents I found were activities/traditions—which are beautiful and important, but I worried that all my effort would go in to those and Christ would get lost in it all. Then, another scripture one wouldn’t load, and another jumped around too much, but these were simple and sequential! I’m putting these into a calendar we painted (with a note to learn a Christmas song when applicable to the story) alongside Some chewable vitamins(For the candy effect) and the daily service ideas from the #lighttheworld calendar (and a correlating scripture from Jesus’ life when I can think of one). Altogether that’ll be 2-4 things a day to help us learn about Jesus birth and life all month long in-spite of my Procrastination/sleep deprivation. Thanks sooooo much for sharing these!
Charlotte, thank you so much for letting me know how God led you to these little cards. What a blessing to know that you will use them all month long with your family! I am so honored! Also I love your chewable vitamin idea lol!! God bless you!!
These are just lovely, thank you! I am putting them in my first grader’s lunchbox every day this month.
These are awesome! Just what I was looking for and perfect for my 5 and 7 year old! Thank you!
These are really lovely and just what I was looking for to put up on the Sunday School notice board. Thank you and blessings, Tricia
These are perfect! My daughter has been in and out of the hospital these last few months and a quick Pinterest search brought me to your website. These countdown Scriptures are perfect and you just saved this tired Momma lots of time. Thank you!!
Just wanted to say a big thank you for the beautiful Bible verses! I was looking for ways to share the true meaning of Christmas with my son, and this will be perfect in his wooden advent calendar…as well as chocolate 😊 God bless!
Thank you so much for this resource! I’m not on top of it this year (2020). I’m a teacher and this year has been crazy! Thanks to you, I was literally able to throw our advent calendar together in 10 minutes. I really appreciate you. Thanks for sharing your gifts to make Christmas a little sweeter for my family.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for these! They are perfect and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for saving me tons of work. Because of these I’m a new subscriber!
Thank you for the bite size scripture based advent calendar. I’ve printed it out before and used it for my youth group activity 2 years ago. This year with my 30month old boy, I included the Chinese verses to them to make it bilingual, enlarged it and printed the calendar on a transparent label sheets and applied in on the window in his play area. It’s stuck there for the rest of this month and I love how he can’t rip or tear anything down. lol.
Thank you! what program did you use?…i would love to make some in Spanish.
I actually hand drew these cards! I am sorry that I am not more help and I am sorry that I do not know Spanish to make some for you! I hope you are able to still be blessed by them. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing!
I can read the Bible verse everyday with my kids.
Blessings to you~
That makes me so happy!
I wish artists would quit drawing/painting the manger as a wood box. There was very little wood to spare in Israel. All the archaeologists say that mangers would have been chiseled out of rock or made out of stones because there was (and still are!) a plethora of stones and rocks in Israel. Why not be accurate in what we portray to children? It’s like so many children’s books that say Jonah was swallowed by a whale….he wasn’t….the Bible says it was a big fish that God prepared just for Jonah. Whales are mammals and fish are fish.
If you ever re-draw your adorable illustrations, you might want to consider this.
You are absolutely right! Thank you for the reminder and yes, I will definitely keep that in mind for future designs! God bless you!
Thank you so much, Julie! I printed your Advent Bible verses on red and green construction paper and cut them into strips for our Sunday School kids to make a paper chain to count up to Christmas. I made a Happy Birthday, Jesus card (number 25) for the chain to hang from. The children really enjoyed our craft. Your generosity in sharing your ideas for free is wonderful, because our budget is limited.
Thank you for these, using them again this year for our advent calendar tower – I write an activity to do for each day on the back and include a healthy treat for my kids as well. 🙂
This is exactly what I needed for my 16 year old’s advent calendar. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Jennifer! I hope you all have so much fun!
This is exactly what I was looking for . I made an advent calendar for my one year old grandson. Your never to young to hear the word ! Thank you and blessings to you !