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 To make your own advent wreath... Create your own wreath every year, using greens from the yard, florist wire, pine cones, candles and candle holders. Insert your greens pine cones candles etc. into a Styrofoam ring. You can also find wood or metal bases to be used year after year. Sweet Advent Calendar... Remember those chocolate advent calendars from your childhood? Well you can make your own sweet calendar using last years Christmas cards and chocolates. Then add this calendar to your candle lighting tradition for a daily reminder of the season. Cut the pictures from the cards. Draw a calendar with a marker, ruler and large piece of poster board. Leave enough room around the edges of the calendar for decorations. Help your children decorate the poster board with the Christmas card pictures and a glue stick. Attach (glue gun - adults only) a wrapped candy for each child into the squares for every day until the 24th. You can also make smaller individual calendars for every child in your household. Unwrap a candy each day until Christmas Eve. Some Daily Devotionals for Advent... Christ in Christmas; A Family Advent Celebration, by James C. Dobson, Charles R. Swindoll, James Montgomery Boice, R.C. Sproul (ISBN # 0-89109-605-1) Jesus Tree Devotional, Written by Rachel Chaney, Illustrated by Mary Kessler Sauer This is a set of 25 devotionals, one for each day in December leading up to Christmas. The illustrations are line drawings that may be used as coloring pages for children. The colored illustrations may be hung on your Christmas tree as ornaments, or you may wish to dedicate a special tree as a "Jesus Tree" and let your children put these ornaments on after they have colored them and the devotional has been read. Download Illustrations (PDF) Download Daily Devotions (Word Document) |
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