Jesse Tree Tea Party
If you remember, we are doing a Jesse Tree this year for Advent. The girls have been loving it. Well we desided that we would host a tea party that highlights the different parts of the Jesse Tree using food! We started with creation and moved all the way through the bible to Jesus’ birth! The kids love all the foods and preparing all of it is an amazing reflection on the season for the moms! My mom was so creative working out what the food should be! I wanted to share this with you in case you were looking for one last way to share the true meaning of the season with your kids! Here are the foods we used!
Creation
(Blue Jello with cool whip for water and sky)
Adam and Eve’s apple.
(apples and gummy worms)
Noah’s Ark
(Rainbows and Animals Crackers)
Abraham and his Descendants
(His descendants would number the stars. So we had star shaped pasta)
Issac and Jacob
(The the sticks repersent the sticks for the offering of Issac and also for Jacob’s Ladder)
Joseph and the Coat of Colors
(Bread with peanut butter and sprinkles)
Moses
(The Flaming Bush and the 10 commandments {Which are cookies})
Root of Jesse
(Carrots)
Star of David
(these were filled with chicken salad)
Joanah and the whale
(Goldfish crackers)
The angle
(Chocolate cover pretzles or angle wings)
Mary
(York peppermint m&ms)
Joseph
(Potato Straw for the Stable he found for Jesus to be born in)
Baby Jesus
(Lil’ Smokies with crescent rolls)
Before we ate, we read the stories from the bible and put the symbols on the jesse tree as we went. The everyone got to eat the food we made! 
This is such a great, fun, and pretty easy way to help kids understand the plan of God through out history! Christmas is after all about the birth of our savior. I hope that you all are having a fun, and blessed season of advent! Let me know if you do or have done anything like this before with your kids! I would LOVE to hear all about it!
December 20, 2013 @ 3:19 am
FUN!!! I’ll be doing something similar on Saturday with a group of girls. The boys will be off doing something boy-ish – though they’ll get the leftovers when they get back 😉
I didn’t even THINK of the pretzels for angels! I will make star-shaped meat/cheese sandwiches for the Star of David – and angel cookie cutters for the angels.
Gummy worms will make the snake, a rainbow and the coat of many colors (peanut butter allergies in the group I’ll have 🙁 ).
We’re going to do a few less than what you have listed – just for my own need for simplicity 😉 Maybe next year, we’ll do a bit more – or swap up the stories we use. I am SO looking forward to so some girl time (though I do this sort of thing with boys often too – I just need girl-time!).
Just got back from the grocery store picking up supplies and saw your post… so neat!
December 21, 2013 @ 2:53 am
Ohhh….Fun! I hope that you guys have as much fun as we did! It is a lot of work to get all the food together, but it such a fun and special way to remember the plan of God! Good Luck and Happy Advent!
January 2, 2014 @ 11:31 pm
What a creative idea!!! I like it a lot. I can see us using this idea as our Christmas Eve dinner with our Grandkids. I think we will eat the appropriate food after each element is put on the tree. (Mainly because my sons won’t be able to wait haha). Talk about a progressive dinner. Thank you for sharing the creativity that God has given you. What a gift that you choose to use it to honor him and to encourage a quiet revolution to reclaim Christmas for Emanuel.
January 4, 2014 @ 12:24 am
Thanks Jeri! What a great idea to use it for Christmas Eve dinner!