Advent Begins by Grace and Mom

Grace -
Advent is your busy, squished, not-enough-time-for-school-or-for-planning/buying-Christmas-gifts type of time.

Mom -  well... that's not what it is supposed to be - it's what happens when we don't plan ahead enough. Actually, despite some hurried preparation last weekend, our advent activities are doing pretty smoothly.  But, yes, they do push out some schoolwork to get done each day.

Grace -
Day 1: Aiden is exited to go first and pull out the first cards, candy, and reading the story and unwrapping baby Jesus.

Mom -
We were pleasantly surprised that our church is following advent this year, and so we incorporated that into our Advent poster. Week one: Hope - His Omnipotent Promises Endure - acronym provided by Grace.

Mom -

Day 2 and 3: were about the angel telling Zachariah about the birth of John the Baptist and Mary about Jesus, so we made clay angels.

 Grace -
Left to right: Grace's angel,Aiden's angel,Grace's angel (I made 2!),and Jasmin's angel.Aiden did a pretty good job, but there's no face.Jasmin I don't think chose the right skin color/hair color. The angel with red wings had long hair with leafs in it.The one with yellow wings has a train with deer,black dots and a white background.

Mom - Day 4: was about Mary's visit to Elizabeth. We were supposed to make instruments to praise the Lord like Mary and Elizabeth, but we weren't really interested. So we made our candle holders instead.

Grace -
The one on the left is Jasmin's, lots of angels and halos.The snowflake is Jesus and the stars are Mary and Joseph.

 This is mine. I used our nativity to make (large) impressions.The left one is Joseph with a staff, the right is Mary, and the centre is Jesus. I have angels telling the shepherds/celebrating Jesus' birth, wise men carrying gifts/jewels representing gifts, and the star showing the wise men the way.

This is Aiden's, I don't have much to say.