I'm going to be doing something different here for the month of December. We will be a doing a fair bit of traveling and a lot of festivities are about! I know that I'm not going to be able to keep up with all that's going on here on the blog so I thought I'd just share with you up front what we are going to be doing to celebrate Advent and Christmas.
First of all, this time of year is always crazy for our family. Not only is December 25th the day that we celebrate Jesus' birthday, but it is also Noah's birthday. We want to make our almost 3 year old feel special that he is another year older, but the holiday is super important too! It feels hard to not overlook our precious son. We hope to do a few things special for him, and will probably let him open up his birthday presents a few weeks early. At this age, he doesn't understand yet when exactly his birthday is, and I'm sure he'll accept gifts at any time. ;-)
Second, we are going to be taking a break from our normal preschool routine and just focus on Advent. We might do some extra activities here and there, but for the most part we are going to take it easy. We will be having a composer of the month, though! We will be listening to Hallelujah! Handel and the rest of Handel's Messiah during this Christmas season. We'll take a break from our art study, but I'm getting excited about what we get to do in January. I've just discovered that Costco's Photo Center now has an Art and Image Gallery where you can get gallery enlargements and poster prints from $1.49 to $8.99!
Finally, I've always liked the idea of having an advent calendar where we have something special to do with the kids each day as we get closer and closer to celebrating the birth of Jesus. So, I made an advent calendar. I'm not a crafty person, but I thought this would be fun. My awesome husband helped me, and I think we got it finished in less than 2 hours! After it's completion, I made up a list of what we are going to be doing each day. I picked up a lot of the ideas and reading from the list at Hubbard's Cupboard.
First of all, this time of year is always crazy for our family. Not only is December 25th the day that we celebrate Jesus' birthday, but it is also Noah's birthday. We want to make our almost 3 year old feel special that he is another year older, but the holiday is super important too! It feels hard to not overlook our precious son. We hope to do a few things special for him, and will probably let him open up his birthday presents a few weeks early. At this age, he doesn't understand yet when exactly his birthday is, and I'm sure he'll accept gifts at any time. ;-)
Second, we are going to be taking a break from our normal preschool routine and just focus on Advent. We might do some extra activities here and there, but for the most part we are going to take it easy. We will be having a composer of the month, though! We will be listening to Hallelujah! Handel and the rest of Handel's Messiah during this Christmas season. We'll take a break from our art study, but I'm getting excited about what we get to do in January. I've just discovered that Costco's Photo Center now has an Art and Image Gallery where you can get gallery enlargements and poster prints from $1.49 to $8.99!
Finally, I've always liked the idea of having an advent calendar where we have something special to do with the kids each day as we get closer and closer to celebrating the birth of Jesus. So, I made an advent calendar. I'm not a crafty person, but I thought this would be fun. My awesome husband helped me, and I think we got it finished in less than 2 hours! After it's completion, I made up a list of what we are going to be doing each day. I picked up a lot of the ideas and reading from the list at Hubbard's Cupboard. Wednesday, the 1st – Set up Nativity Set, Wrap Baby Jesus in a box for the boys to open and put in the manger.
Thursday, the 2nd – Read Luke 1:5-25, Make an Angel Craft
Friday, the 3rd - Read Luke 1:26-38, Make a nativity craft out of construction paper
Saturday, the 4th – Luke 1:39-56 , Christmas Cookie Party
Sunday, the 5th - Read Luke 1:57-80, Advent Wreath Week 2
Monday, the 6th – Read Matthew 1:18-24, Make Peppermint Bark
Tuesday, the 7th - Read Luke 2:1-5, Christmas Coloring Page
Wednesday, the 8th - Read Luke 2:6-7, Go to the Children's Museum
Thursday, the 9th - Read Luke 2:8-20, Do a lamb craft
Friday, the 10th – Read the “Legend of the Candy Cane”, Eat a candy cane
Saturday, the 11th - Read Luke 2:21-38 and Luke 1:31-32, Decorate Jesus' name
Sunday, the 12th – Read Matthew 2:1-12 , Advent Wreath Week 3
Monday, the 13th – Go Downtown to look at all the Christmas Decor
Tuesday, the 14th – Read Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats, Go Christmas caroling
Wednesday, the 15th - Read Matthew 2:13-23; Luke 2:39-40, Drive around looking at Christmas lights
Thursday, the 16th - Read 1 John 4:9 and John 3:16, Learn John 3:16 Song (tune of “Jesus Loves Me”)
Friday, the 17th – Take an airplane ride to visit Grandma and Grandpa Broach
Saturday, the 18th – Make a Christmas tree craft
Sunday, the 19th – Advent Wreath Week 4, Make a trip up to see old friends
Monday, the 20th – Christmas coloring page
Tuesday, the 21st – Drive around looking at Christmas lights
Wednesday, the 22nd – Make a wreath craft
Thursday, the 23rd – Christmas Coloring Page
Friday, the 24th – Make an ornament craft
I hope to get to most of these things, but things do change quickly around here. Who knows? We might even have a lot of snow like we did last week. There are a lot of variables, but I think it will be a fun month. I'll do my best to post updates occasionally this month, but not as regularly as before. We should be back up and running in the month of January!!!
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