Shortbread is a perennial Christmas favourite and in our house it is no different. Today’s activity is a simple one which the kids will love – what child does not enjoy cooking? You’ll need: Shortbread recipe 1 cup Plain flour ½ cup rice flour 150g butter, chopped ¼ cup castor sugar plus extra to sprinkle […]
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After a few days of fun, but busy activities, settling down with the Christmas story and a simple colouring activity is a nice way to prepare for Christmas. You will need: A Christmas story book or picture Bible A picture of the Annunciation for colouring Pencils What to do: Read/share the Christmas story with your
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I stumbled across this Christmas activity online a few years ago and each year we have a lot of fun remaking a handprint wreath and comparing it to last year’s. This is a fun craft activity for all involved and a nice twist on the usual Christmas wreath. Handprint wreath You will need: Green
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Once our Advent calendar of activities is sorted out our first activity is to set up our Advent wreath. We made our wreath a few years ago and re use it every year. I usually get at least two years out of the long taper candles and really only replace them as necessary. This
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For those Mums who would like to make a different Advent journey this year please join in our Advent Calendar. Each day during Advent I will be posting a new activity you and your family can undertake to prepare for the Christmas season. Craft activities that involve sewing will also feature a no-sew variation
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Each year on the first day of Advent we set up our Advent Calendar. This is generally the day that I sit down and work out what this year’s order of Advent activities will be. We already have an Advent Calendar, a quilted wall hanging with pockets into which I place small squares of paper
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The feminine mistake: the criminalisation of masculinity To open the door or not to open the door – for a lot of men that really is the question. Personally I love it when men open the door for me and that’s not just because I have small children and I’m usually struggling to push an
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Three years ago I wanted to prepare my children, the eldest then 3 and a half, spiritually for Christmas and to offset the secular messages that bombarded them from well, September onwards. Eventually I decided to take a different approach to the Advent calendars that offered a chocolate or a lolly for each day of
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This is a quick and simple Bible craft activity using bits and pieces from around the house. The best thing is that Jonah actually fits inside the whale! What you’ll need: a rectangular tea bag box, grey and pink paint, grey card or paper, a toilet roll and scraps of patterned or coloured paper, pipe
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Our eldest child is five and a half and he has never received a present from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, neither have our subsequent children. Early on in our marriage my husband and I each voiced our disapproval of the commercialisation and secularisation of Christmas and Santa Claus particularly. We wanted to keep our
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