Advent Paper Chains

Advent Paper Chains

Advent paper chains are like 3-D Advent calendars. They are a physical and visual way to mark the daily journey to Christmas. Paper chains are an easy and playful way for kids to learn Advent words. Pick simple words like “wait, prepare, watch, baby,...
2019 Advent Calendars

2019 Advent Calendars

My early-childhood, next-door neighbor always had an Advent calendar. In our Christian Science household we did not celebrate Advent, but I coveted all those little doors my friend Marian opened every day in the weeks before Christmas. Each door revealed tiny,...
A Joyous Christmas

A Joyous Christmas

 Celebrate the coming of Christ. Celebrate Incarnation. Celebrate Emmanuel.  For Unto Us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is Given.   Isaiah 9:6-7 May this completed Advent be the start of a fresh, new journey with Jesus for the coming year, an unfolding experience of...

Sing, Sign, Expect–Advent Words

Below are a few verbal and visual reflections on words from#AdventWord 2018. #SINGing is my primary learning style. It is probably not in the educators’ official handbook of learning styles with auditory, verbal, visual, kinesthetic…but it includes all of...

Wild and Cry–Advent Words

For the first nine days of Advent I have really enjoyed combining praying in color with #AdventWord. Everyday #AdventWord (adventword.org)  sends  an email with a new word and a reflection on the word. The chosen words are based on the Advent lectionary from year C....