The Heart Felt Truths Advent Calendar is special felt nativity display that completes a nativity scene display over the period of 25 days. As your family counts down to Christmas, a new piece will be added to the display that corresponds with part of a retelling of the Christmas story. As your children re-read the past portions of the story each day they will come to memorize the story and the small passages of Scripture that are included in it. You can read more about using the calendar on our main blog page. This calendar is very similar in concept to Noel Piper’s “Noel Calendar.” If you are familiar with the Noel Calendar, you will find the story is different and that the materials are obviously very different, but the concept is the same.
Below are the patterns and instructions for designing your own felt Advent Calendar. If you are interested in ordering a felt advent calendar or a packet with the instructions and all necessary felt, please visit our Etsy Shop to order. We have calendars for sale throughout the year in various background colors.
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My kids love our felt story times!! THere is something about them helping to tell the story using multiple senses – they LOVE it. I wanted to invite you to come link up at my TGIF Linky Party – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
Beth =-)
What a wonderful idea! Thank you so much for sharing it. I would love it if you would share it at my Sharing Saturday link party at http://craftymomsshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/sharing-saturday-4.html.
what a lovely idea and a great way to share the meaning of christmas in the busy holiday santa season! Too often it gets lost in the shuffle
would love for you to share on – the Sunday Showcase- http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase
Bern
thank you SO much for sharing this! i have been looking for the noel calendar and/or directions on how to make/details of the calendar for a few years now!! so excited to finally have a story and ideas to go from. this will be a HUGE blessing to our family’s advent celebration:)
You are welcome! I spent a year trying to find something like the Noel Calendar to purchase as well! Although this is a little different I think you will really enjoy it! After you make it, I would greatly appreciate any feedback or adjustments! ENJOY!
This is fabulous!! It is so generous of you to share your pattern and instructions! Thank you so much!! I can’t wait to do this with my kiddos!!
You are welcome! After you make it, I would greatly appreciate any feedback or adjustments! I can’t wait to get mine out again this year because the kids loved it so much last year!
I really love this. I’m going to try and make it for my grandson. I think I’m going to try and make it out of foam sheets and put magnets on the back.
I would love it if you would send photos to share if you are able to make it like that!
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Thank you for posting this pattern. I grew up with a felt Advent calendar and now that I have a son want to share the tradition with him. I have spent a lot of time the past few days looking for a pattern for a religious advent calendar. This is perfect! I am excited to make it! Thanks!
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Found you via pinterest and thank you for the patterns. This will make for a beautiful tradition in our family!
Hi, I’ve been slowly making this and the directions are kind of confusing. Some of the numbers were wrong, I think for the manger and then the angels were listed a few times. Just thought I’d let you know so you can correct it
Super excited to finish mine.
A thousand thank yous!!! I have been trying to come up with my own for a long time and haven’t ever finished… now I will actually get this done before the holidays. Really, thank you so much!
Finally finished mine. How do you get your pieces to stay once it’s hanging on the wall all month? I thought I’d maybe put small velcro pieces on the backs… I don’t want to lose any of the pieces.
Dear Kim,
but he always found his way home. A friend of mine decided to velcro hers this year. You can buy small velcro pieces at the craft store that are adhesive on both sides and sometimes you can cut them in half to make them go farther on the small pieces. You can also cut 3M photo mounting strips into small pieces but I think the velcro would be cheaper. Happy Thanksgiving!
The felt pieces should stick to the calendar. Have you tried to hang it yet? Sometimes if little hands walk by and touch the calendar they will fall off so it might be advantageous to hang it out of reach. Last year my one-year-old kept knocking pieces off and we had a donkey wind up missing a time or two
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