Through my various online homeschool buddies I heard about an ebook that came out called “Truth in Tinsel“. It’s a wonderful daily advent devotion for little kids that isn’t as over their head as some of the Jesse Tree books. You do a daily reading from the Bible with the children and a simple craft that goes along with it. Then there is a discussion section at the end. Nadia and I had some great conversations during this and she had some really sweet responses to the readings and questions that followed. Each craft is a small ornament to tell the story of advent – I bought little trees on clearance in January for when the girls do this together in 2012.
Nadia working on the scented dough to represent the frankincense and myrrh.
Here are our crafts (we missed the crafts on some days -but still did the readings with all our other activity in December, but we almost completed the full 24):
Light, Kingdom, Zechariah
Gabriel, Mary, Mary and Elizabeth with pregnant bellies
Song, Sun, Joseph, Joseph’s pillow (for his dream)
Bethlehem, Stable, Clothes, Sheep
Shepards, Temple, Star
Wise Men, Gifts