A Year of Crafts~ Advent Calenders
Today we had our very last Year of Crafts Day! I think it was pretty good!Since it is the very beginning of advent, I thought it would be fun to make advent calenders! However, I have two kids and my friend has four, that makes a lot of calenders for each of us to hang up! So I found a way to use envelopes and turn it into a book! This way each kid can open an envelope everyday, but it will only take up a tiny bit of space! Perfect! I started with 24 brown mailing envelops for each kid, and some pretty scrapbook tags, stickers, buttons, beads, and rhinestones to make things pretty! The girls worked really hard, but after about ten, they were pretty tired! They finished them up though and I filled them with a bible verse for each day of the week! The verses are a part of the e-book Truth in the Tinsel. Each day there is a thought about the bible passage and a craft to help the ids ponder the meaning or the characters! It is a really great book and I think that the kids are going to love! Here are some of the “pages” in their books!
December 9, 2012 @ 5:07 am
Love the envelopes ideas!!!! and the hot dog baby Jesus!!! yumy!!!
December 25, 2014 @ 7:44 pm
I think it’s essential to teach and instruct our children. Age appropriate crafts help us do that. However, stop and think about what we’re teaching our kids when we represent the King of kings and Lord of lords as a hotdog. We also need to teach our children reverence.