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Holidays

The making of an Advent Calendar

How to make your own Advent Calendar You need: One large piece of poster board. 24 little Dixie paper cups. pencil school glue paintbrushes pencils with new erasers small bowl small plates 24 small strips of paper with activities. small candies (enough for one per child per day) red, dark blue, light blue, green and yellow tissue paper cut into squares. (The ones you’ll be covering the cups with should …

Holidays

Advent Event, Day 2: Traditions

We have many traditions that we repeat each year to make our Advent season meaningful and keep the holidays focused on Jesus Christ. Some of our activities change from year to year, but these are the traditions that we’ve begun and I hope and pray that these traditions are carried on through the generations. Our Advent Calendar A day or two before Advent begins, the kids and I will sit …

Holidays

The Advent Event – Sharing Christmas ideas, traditions, tips and more!

Today is the first day of Advent! If you don’t know what Advent is, it’s basically a Catholic tradition which celebrates the coming of Christ as a child and his promised Second Coming – and it runs from roughly after Thanksgiving until the beginning of January. Now, I’m not Catholic. But after being exposed to the tradition of Advent a few years ago, I quickly realized that this is a …