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Advent Calendar Round-up

If you are wanting to have an advent calendar this year, some of them take a little preparation. You can buy a pre-made one, or make one yourself.  The celebration of Advent is a wonderful time as a family, preparing for Dec. 25th as you count down the days until the coming of Christ.  It helps you focus on the meaning of this season as you think about the coming of our Savior daily.

Crafty mom has an Advent calendar round-up with several choice finds.

Elizabeth's fabric advent calendar is beautiful, and would be a keepsake for any traditional family.

You can wrap little boxes like this advent calendar, with ideas of things to do each day together as a family.  Get out the wrapping paper!

How about an advent calendar out of matchboxes?  This one wouldn't be hard to make.

We use a Jesse Tree for our advent celebration.  You can see our mini tree filled with 25 hand made ornaments that we used last year and are getting set-up to use this year again.

Christmas goody basket

Every day I put new goodies in the Christmas basket. Yesterday there was our first book The Christmas Cobwebs, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a family read-aloud (hilarious with many teachable moments), and all the ingredients to make the snowflake ornaments. We made the ornaments today after our Jesse tree devotion. Then we hung them up in a room. I'm sure we'll make more as they were so much fun.

Day 6 - Jacob's Ladder

Genesis 28: 10-17 How wonderfully comforting to hear from God that he would personally see to it that you would be taken care of, even though you are a failure at most things you attempt. God used this helpless man to become the source of blessing and means of salvation to the entire world through his son Jesus, whom he would send many years later. The ladder we hung is a symbol of the communication we now have with God through his son Jesus. What a wonderful reminder.