The family this year is trying to focus on the Advent season, the coming of Christ. I have chosen a book called Truth in the Tinsel. It walks us through scripture for 24 days focusing on a specific aspect of the story of Jesus’ birth each day. It teaches us how His story is our story. To help us remember what we are learning, we make an ornament each day. That’s right, 72 ornaments in 24 days...just purchased an Advent tree to house them all. Can’t wait to see how it will look on Christmas day! The kids seem to really enjoy what we are doing, even Noah. We are using our daily calendar as an advent calendar of sorts. Truth in the Tinsel has little clue cards you can print out that help focus the kids while reading scripture. For example you see my adaptations of the first two clue cards below. So when we read Isaiah 9:2-7, the kids listened for the word light on the first day and kingdom on the next. It is also a clue to the ornament we will be crafting. The book gives you the option to make a countdown chain out of the clues and it has printables for that as well. We are doing both. We tear off the ring at night and read our clue again. Since a paper chain “countdown” is something we do each year anyway, might as well make it more adventy and less wrapping papery. I also purchased an actual advent wreath this year. Noah is currently obsessed with lighting the candles now that he has figured out how to work the lighter. Clearly this is not enough to drive home the advent season so we still have our wooden/magnet advent calendar as well as a count down kisses chain (I will focus on that in a separate post). So we have gone from clueless about the advent season to overkill. What can I say? We like living in extremes lately. So here’s to Advent! Here is to focusing on Jesus this year…what a novel idea!
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