Activities in our calendar that I may have forgotten to mention (each has a corresponding ornament to hang on his Advent tree):
1. Reading Luke 2 (the Christmas story) and visiting a live nativity -- angel ornament in calendar space
2. Making a handmade ornament -- mitten ornament to hang on tree
3. Reading about the history of the candy cane and eating one -- candy cane ornament
4. Reading about the angel appearing to Joseph and counting the angels on our tree -- angel ornament
5. Putting out food for winter birds -- bird and birdhouse ornaments
6. Listening to The Little Drummer Boy and talking about it -- drum ornament
There may have been others I missed, but this gives you an idea. He loves the Advent calendar and every day asks me when he can open that day's door. He also loves the Advent wreath and hovers around as I light the candles every night. Each night after dinner he says "I want to blow out the Advent candles now!" and he helps me do just that. In our church, the candles are 1. Hope, 2. Peace, 3. Joy, and 4. Love and we light one each week (Next Sunday we light the fourth one) and there's a white candle in the center that is the Christ candle that we'll light on Christmas Eve. Dennis knows the names of the first three candles and we say them as we light them and blow them out. What a meaningful season we're having this year!
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