Printable Advent Calendar Activity Cards - Mama.Papa.Bubba.
Free printable advent calendar activity cards for kids that focus on fun, family, and kindness.
LEGO Nativity Set Instructions - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls
This LEGO® nativity is part of our Five (More!) LEGO Christmas Projects to Build, but since the instructions were getting a little lengthy, I decided to give the how-to part its own post! For this nativity display, I chose to make the figures without faces. We tried using the eyes that come with the new […]
LEGO Nativity Set Instructions - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls
This LEGO® nativity is part of our Five (More!) LEGO Christmas Projects to Build, but since the instructions were getting a little lengthy, I decided to give the how-to part its own post! For this nativity display, I chose to make the figures without faces. We tried using the eyes that come with the new […]
Advent Journey Game: Print and Play
So now we are into November it officially time to start planning Advent: less than a month to go before Advent Sunday! Here is a game to get you in the mood and to help children to get involved in the Advent story. Either play the game then tell the story and see which of the key events the children recognise, or vice versa. You will need: A print out of the game per group, counters or buttons to use as counters, dice. Click here to print the game. Happy playing!
Kids' Advent Wreath- Free Printables
*** Update: Click here to get the printable in Spanish and here in Dutch! This year at our CCD Family Advent Night, we decided that we would focus on the meaning of the Advent Wreath and have the kids make their own to take home. I will post pictures of how we make that work for a group, but I wanted to make sure to share the printables before the first week of Advent. Here is how I put them all together: 1. Print out the three page printable. I like to have kids color before cutting, so…
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Our Salt Dough Spiral Calendar Winter Garden is an excellent way to count down to your favorite holiday. MATERIALS: 1/2 cup table salt 1/2 cup water 1 cup flour Glass gems 1 On a greased cookie sheet, roll dough into a long cylinder. Flatten and form into a spiral. Calculate the number of days from the start of the month to the holiday or the end of the month. Use glass gems to make evenly spaced and unified depressions for each of those days in the dough spiral. The dough expands when…
The O Antiphons
We all know the song O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Standby favorite for the season of Advent- but did you know there is a lot more to it than that? There are actually seven verses...that you may or may not get through when you are singing at church...and each of those verses specifically calls on a title of Christ that fulfilled prophecy from the Old Testament. The song comes from the O Antiphons that are prayed by the whole Church during the seven days preceding Christmas Eve. These O Antiphons…
Wise Men Visit Jesus: Matthew 2:1-11
Epiphany is the day when we celebrate the wise men coming to visit Jesus. It is January 6th. As we prepare to celebrate this day in the church, I invite your family to enter the story and continu…
26 Ideas for Advent (with Sybil MacBeth)
Advent is a season of anticipation, of holy waiting . It is a waiting characterized not by idleness or even contented peace, but by prophetic yieldedness and active hope. Perhaps more than any other season in the Christian calendar, Advent acknowledges the already-and-not-yet nature of the Kingdom
Build Your Own Bethlehem Play Scene from Recycled Materials
We're big fans of small world play scenes in our house & as Minnie is keenly exploring the Christmas story during Advent it seemed appropriate to make a Nativity-themed scene. We made this eco-friendly version from a variety of recycled items & old fabric, & the final result was beautiful. To make the buildings for our scene we used: Small recycled cardboard boxes White Paper Masking tape White & yellow paint or cream paint Salt or sand Brown paper (or wrapping paper) We started by wrapping…