Jesse Tree and Advent Activities

Over all our years of homeschooling, we have celebrated advent with a variety of Christmas Jesse Tree and Advent activities. As December approaches, why don’t you include this beautiful daily reflection of Christ revealed from Genesis to Revelation with your own Jesse Tree devotional? Here is a list of suggested activities and links ~

We constructed our own chicken wire Jesse Tree curved to form a tall narrow cone and decorated it with free downloads from around the Internet. Or you could make a simple cardboard cut-out Homemade Jesse Tree by This Simple Home, or simply decorate your own Christmas tree with these meaningful symbols.
We created small Jesse Tree discs made with baker’s clay & painted them. Another year we used cardstock and illustrated and painted our discs and covered them with clear packaging tape to protect them. Then my daughter sewed all the discs together by running them through the sewing machine to join them into a lovely long bunting. We draped this bunting around the tree. Some moms sewed their Jesse Tree discs using felt (see link below).

We painted the Names of Jesus Ornaments downloaded free from Bible Story Printables.com with bright, bold colours. (You can print out the coloured version, but I wanted to save on printing ink.) These discs are larger than the small Jesse Tree discs and fill in much of the wire tree space.
We made Names of Jesus strips which my youngest stapled into paper rings and interlinked them to make a lovely paper chain to decorate our Advent table.
I downloaded our Jesse Tree ornaments from Ann Voskamp’s Unwrapping the Greatest Gift download. We coloured some elements of each picture in with silver and gold pens and protected the pictures with clear tape. We used thin florist wire pieces to twist through a tiny hole pierced in our decorations and hooked them simply over the tree’s wires as we follow our Jesse Tree Advent story.

Here are free Jesse Tree ideas and Advent resources ~