Jesse Tree!

Hey Everyone! Advent starts tomorrow – Happy New Year!

Check out this great post from Healthy Family to do your very own Jesse Tree this year. The site offers full-color or black-and-white images for your child(ren) to color, too. These ornaments are geared toward little ones, but there are plenty of “big kid” or “grown-up” options out there.

PLUS: Here are the readings for all of Advent – enjoy!

JESSE TREE SCRIPTURES

Read the passage and create and ornament for each day leading up to Christmas. Hang the ornaments on a chandelier, a bare Christmas tree, or from your mantel. Reading the scriptures will be a good teaching tool for your kids and a great one for you too!

December 1 Creation: Gen. 1:1-31; 2:1-4 

December 2 Adam and Eve: Gen. 2:7-9, 18-24 

December 3 Fall of Man: Gen. 3:1-7 and 23-24 

December 4 Noah: Gen. 6:5-8, 13-22; 7:17, 23, 24; 8:1, 6-22 

December 5 Abraham: Gen. 12:1-3 

December 6 Isaac: Gen. 22:1-14 

December 7 Jacob: Gen. 25:1-34; 28:10-15 

December 8 Joseph: Gen. 37:23-28; 45:3-15 

December 9 Moses: Ex. 2:1-10 

December 10 Samuel: 1 Sam. 3:1-18 

December 11 Jesse: 1 Sam. 16:1-13 

December 12 David: 1 Sam. 17:12-51 

December 13 Solomon: 1 Kings 3:5-14, 16-28 

December 14 Joseph: Matt. 1:18-25 

December 15 Mary: Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38 

December 16 John the Baptist: Mark 1:1-8 

December 17 Jesus is Wisdom: Sirach 24:2; Wisdom 8:1 

December 18 Jesus is Lord: Ex. 3:2; 20:1 

December 19 Jesus is Flower of Jesse: Isaiah 11:1-3 

December 20 Jesus is Key of David: Isaiah 22:22 

December 21 Jesus is the Radiant Dawn: Psalm 19:6-7

December 22 Jesus is King of the Gentiles: Psalm 2:7-8; Ephesians 2:14-20 

December 23 Jesus is Emmanuel: Isaiah 7:14; 33:22 

December 24 Jesus is Light of the World: John 1:1-14