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love this time of year, and I am trying to focus more on Christ as I prepare to celebrate His birth and His life.
Last year I made this cute
advent garland. I was so excited to put it up again this year and get started with some fun activities to get our family in the Christmas spirit. I combined the daily activities with a simple scripture "chase" that I found in the
December 2010 Friend. There is a question about the Nativity story with a scripture referenced that contains the answer. After we read the scripture together we move onto the activity.
A few of the activities we have enjoyed so far:
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| Decorating and eating yummy gingerbread trees. |
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| Putting up and decorating the Christmas tree. |
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| Reading Christmas stories together. |
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| Secret Service for a family member. (A lot of beds were anonymously made, and baskets full of clean laundry were folded and ready to be put away.) |
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| So, this wasn't an actual activity, but the boys snuggled up together after putting up the tree and playing an intense game of, "I'll hide this ornament somewhere on the tree, and you have to find it!" They obviously fell asleep like this. They were so cute. Matthew still had the Santa hat on when he woke up the next morning. |
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| An Interfaith Sing-A-Long of Handel's Messiah at our Stake Center. There were excellent soloists, a great choir, and a fantastic chamber orchestra in which our fair Sarah played her flute. It was a beautiful and inspiring performance. We have all been breaking out into the "Hallelujah Chorus" ever since. |
The
First Presidency Christmas Devotional. This is one of my favorite meetings of the year. There is always such an amazing spirit present. The music and the talks were truly uplifting and inspiring.
I pray that the Spirit of Christ will be in our home this Christmas season.
5 comments:
This is so awesome! I wish I had planned ahead to do something like this. I am going to focus now until Christmas on doing things with my kiddos. Thanks for some ideas!
Christmas is the best and I love that garland. I want to make one!
What a neat way to get into the season. I'm going to sleep in my Santa hat tonight!
I love the "secret service" idea so much! What a great tradition to start with your kids.
Oh so lovely. You are so much more on top of things than I am! Love the ideas. I'm going to steal some if you don't mind!
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