Next Sunday will be the first Sunday of Advent, and once again, time to start my Advent Calendar drawings. This will be Year 5. Each year I wonder if I'll do another one. And then I do. So here is my 2012 template.
This year, Christmas is on a Tuesday. Instead of a five-wide drawing space for Christmas Day, I decided to give an extra block to each of the four Sundays, for my Advent wreath and candle drawings. The weeks progress diagonally down the page, and I deleted the day labels from the top row.
I will post my calendar here throughout Advent, at least weekly, and maybe more often. After my first year's Advent calendar, I wrote a post on
what I learned from it, and it does a good job of explaining why I've continued.
For my previous Advent calendar drawings, click as follows:
My friend Sybil also has posted her Advent calendars in past years in her prayer-drawing blog,
Praying in Color.
Click here for her 2011 calendar, or
click here for earlier years. I'll also link to her 2012 calendar as it appears.
Edited Nov. 26, 2012 to add: Click here for Sybil's candle and tree templates... very different from my grid format.
If you'd like to try this activity for yourself, you're welcome to use my 2012 template. It's sized to print on 8-1/2 x 11" paper. Click
here to download the PDF file, or click
here to download the Word version. Both are on Google Docs.
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2 comments:
I love this idea! I'm going to use it not only with myself but also with my kids. What a lovely way to bring some quiet thoughtful time into the daily day. Thank you!
I'm a pastor in children's ministry and was Googling for new ideas to try this Advent. Am looking forward to using this prayer calendar. Many thanks for sharing. :)
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