Advent Season

This is our first year with three mobile boys and one in preschool . It has us doing activities a bit differently this year. We are doing our daily book and ornament hanging at the end of the day . 

We are doing The Jesse Tree ornaments again this year. I have each boy hang an ornament on the tree every day as we talk about that bible story that leads up to Jesus' birth . 

We'll start out sparkle box of gifts for Jesus..

Daily Christmas books: 

Some days we'll add a snack, craft or activity to go along with the story like these felt puppets or the manger scenes below: 

Advent 2014

My double weakness., it's ridiculous really . Every time I see daily craft ideas  and baby Jesus, I add another board on Pinterest. 

For 2014, we are continuing our tradition of Daily Christmas Books: 

We are also daily adding a Jesse Tree ornament to the tree for the boys. Our church introduced us to Ann Voskamp's  book on it too, it's GORGEOUS!

Plus, I decided to added two more things . I know, it's overboard, but these other two won't be daily and only as I remember / have time . 

In one of my homeschool FB groups, someone mentioned doing Christmas Around the World. We are talking about different parts of the world with our Bibleless People Around the World, so I thought this would be good to start to look in to . 

The other one is what we are calling "The Journey of the Magi". The Three Wiseman figures from our children's Nativity set will have a few adventures around the house on their way to meet Baby Jesus. 

We are going to take all of December as a break from homeschool  to focus on Advent.  25 Days of baby Jesus, yeaaa!