Ho Ho Ho! Blessed Christmas One and All!

Christmas Advent for Sarah and Sammy

I was thinking about Christmas Advent and I finally got down to designing something for the kids. I hope to do one for the church next year - send a daily email every day from Dec 1st till Dec 24th with appropriate verses, poems, messages or even art pieces so that we can all truly appreciate and celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus. 

We are a couple of days late - but thought it good for the kids to memorize Isaiah 9:6 this Christmas season. This was partly inspired by Bible Truth Music [introduced by Auntie CC], a bible based kids music company which puts lovely tunes to bible verse [albeit KJV, I would love it in ESV:)]. The song for our season is "For Unto Us A Child is Born". If you would like to listen to the song, you can go to the above link and hear the preview. Sarah loves the tempo of the song and she can play it over and over and over again in the car. Sammy, who loves to parrot Sarah naturally likes this song too. And I am so thrilled that they both love the song. So for at least 10 days, we will do a craft for each section of the verse and hang it on their tiny Christmas trees which I bought from our faithful craft store Daiso. 

[Feel free to download and print the above - a result of an afternoon of playing around with font and colors.]

Day 1 - FOR UNTO US. A simple 30 mins with the kids as we sang the song and read the 3 words "For Unto Us". I explained to the kids that God sent Jesus Christ for us - Sarah, Sammy, Daddy, Mommy, Auntie Rubi and everyone. 

Q: Who did God send Jesus for? 

A: For Unto Us

Q: Who does "us" refer to?

A: Sarah starts naming the family. Mommy adds, "Yes, and for everyone in the world"

Day One craft was a small globe that the kids helped to make using colored foam pieces. They got to cut out the land and stick it onto their blue globe. String the globe and that becomes their first christmas tree ornament. According to Sarah and Sammy, they have got Africa stuck on their globe. See if you can spot it.

Day 2 - A CHILD IS BORN. 

Q: Who is the child?

A: Baby Jesus!

Sarah adds: Jesus is our Father! [that is really the complex relationship that I still haven't figured how Sarah could repeat it all the time. Maybe she doesn't understand it, or maybe she does.

Day Two was a familiar craft of wrapping a baby figure with our never ending purple serviette and what took up the bulk of the fun and started a period of focussed distraction was the mini manual paper shredder from  - yup, Diaso again. 

Holiday Fun - Nov & Dec

Yup..we have been busy. The things we do for kids sometimes...haha. This post will continually be updated till 31st Dec.