Over the last few weeks James has been busy making our family our own Advent Calendar. After scouring the internet for one this year to do, I found that they were either ugly or too expensive. James made ours with some plywood, household supplies
and dollar store stuff. We love it! We put little yummy treats in the cups and every morning BEFORE breakfast Jake gets to pull off the ornament cover and eat his treat. Now I try to explain WHY we get to pull one off each morning, cause we are counting down to baby Jesus birthday, and that is the reason we celebrate christmas, etc, etc...... I really don't think he quite understands it yet but hey, we are planting the seeds right? Next year he will understand more I hope:) We also have been playing a lot with the magnetic fridge manger scene(thanks reba!) Jake knows who mary and joseph and the magi are and makes sure that mary gives lots of kisses to all of them and the donkey too:) i asked him what the name of the angel was the other day and he said ''mommy'' and I said ''YES, mommy is an angel!!!'' (as james rolled his eyes..lol)
The other craft shown is his placemat that we made. We put a lot of paint and glitter and stickers on it and laminated it for him to use at the table. HE LOVES IT! he is learning his letters and colors using that too.
4 comments:
That's super cute Meg!
That is sooo cute and creative! I love it! :) And I love the idea of the fridge manger scene!!!
Oh man..the creativity is ooooozing. Thanks for that.
How fun! I love that! What a great idea. It is fun to plant those seeds even if they don't understand. My favorite this year is listening to my 2 yr old Kailani say "Cwistmas wights"
He is a cutie by the way. Especially with qtips in his ears. His future wife will be smitten. :)
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