Advent candle

About this visual support

Four Sundays, four candles. For adults the advent wreath is a familiar part of December, but for a child it can be something more: a way of seeing time. Weeks are hard to imagine, especially when the thing you are waiting for is as charged as Christmas. A candle lit for each Sunday makes the distance concrete, and a child who has helped light three candles knows there is only one left.

The visual support shows a green advent wreath with red berries and three lit candles. Put the picture in the weekly schedule on Sunday, so lighting the candle becomes a recurring moment rather than something that happens now and then. Let your child count the candles with you and point to how many are left. Decide in advance who lights the candle and who blows it out, and that it always happens with an adult nearby. The turn-taking then becomes part of the routine instead of an argument at the table.

In Routined the advent Sundays can be added as recurring activities with their own picture, and the app can be tried for 14 days at no cost.