Catholic Sprouts Kids: Home Advent & Christmas Challenge

📢Calling all Catholic Sprouts Kids! We have your next challenge!

Join us for the HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge!

Finally! All the Catholic Advent-and-Christmas Traditions in One Place!

Ever wondered when you should put up your Christmas tree, how to make lighting the Advent candles more meaningful, what you could do to mark the feast of St. Lucy or St. Nicholas, or how many gifts you should give your children? Me too!

I’ve spent years setting up my tree too early, unaware of fun Catholic traditions, and being swept away by the secular celebration of Christmas. No more!

Catholic Sprouts Kids: HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge spells out exactly what Catholics do, day-by-day, throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons.

Your Guide This Season

Good-bye guess work, hello Catholic home!

Catholic Sprouts Kids HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge will walk you through the days of Advent and Christmas. Inside, you will find a rich variety of traditions, prayers, crafts, songs, recipes, and customs that can fill this season with Catholic joy.

For example, for the first week of Advent, you will find:

• Reflection on the virtue of Hope
• Instructions for setting up an Advent wreath
• History of the Advent wreath
• Blessing for the Advent wreath
• Link to audio version of The Jesse Tree
• Ideas for celebrating the Catholic New Year
• Instructions for the Straw for Baby Jesus Home Advent Activity
• Instructions for setting up a Nativity scene and hiding the Baby Jesus
• Instructions for the St. Andrew Novena and cut-out prayer card
• Biography of St. Francis Xavier and an invitation to renew your baptismal promises on his feast day
• Biography of St. Nicholas of Myra and the traditional way to mark his feast day in your home.

And that’s just in the first week of Advent!

 HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge covers:

• Advent Week 1
• Advent Week 2
• Advent Week 3
• Advent Week 4
• Christmas Eve
• The Christmas season
• Epiphany

Make the Activities More Meaningful

Although this might appear to be a long list of activities, all of these activities are pretty simple, and often coincide with an activity you are already doing. 

The first week of Advent you are likely pulling out your Advent wreath and Nativity scene. You are also buying chocolates for the feast of St. Nicholas. The goal of the Home Advent and Christmas Challenge is to make those activities more meaningful, and more focused on Christ.

HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge will help you add prayer to these common at-home Advent activities, and dive deeper into the meaning and significance behind these traditions. 

HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge will also help you discover new traditions and live the Advent and Christmas seasons well.

More Than a Book

HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge is a beautiful, 8.5”x11” full-color, 133 page book with a spiral binding. But it is also so much more than a book!

HOME Advent and Christmas Challenge is packed WITH meaningful activities for the Catholic Home:

• Catholic traditions for lighting and decorating your Christmas Tree
• Mexican Wedding Cookie Recipe to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadulupe
• Immaculate Conception coloring page
• Cut, color, and wear a candle crown for the feast of St. Lucy
• Instructions for popcorn Christmas tree garland
• Cut and hang O’Antophon Ornaments
• Cut-out and use the Examination of Conscience for Families
• Cut-Out Sugar Cookie recipe
• Blessing for a Nativity scene
• Cut and color a “Happy Birthday” card for Jesus
• Explanation of “Feasting Well” throughout the Christmas Season
• Blessing for children on the Feast of the Holy Innocents
• Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy flash cards
• Cut-Out 2026 Holy Days of Obligation frigid sheet
• King Cake recipe
• The history of House Blessing on the Epiphany and Home Blessing prayer
• Stickers to mark off all the meaningful activities as you complete them!

All activities shared in The Home Advent and Christmas Challenge will also be shared digitally with everyone who purchases the book. This way, you can use and reuse this resource year after year.

For Those of Us Who Want to Create a Catholic Home…But Need Some Help

I want to live Advent and Christmas well as a Catholic, but there are so many traditions I simply don’t know about!

Not any more!

The Catholic Sprouts Kids: Home Advent and Christmas Challenge will help you to confidently and prayerfully lead your Catholic family through the Advent and Christmas Seasons. 

No more guess work or regret this year. 

Instead, grab a copy of The Catholic Sprouts Kids: Home Advent and Christmas Challenge.