Advent Calendar

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 journey to Bethlehem for colouring Pencils What to do: Read/share the Christmas story […]

Today’s activity is all about the best Christmas present of all time! You can use this activity as an opportunity to explain that the best Christmas present we will ever receive is that of Baby Jesus. You’ll need: Small plastic babies Pen and ruler Card glue scraps of white fabric What to do: Using the

  The 6th of December is the feast of Saint Nicholas and it provides a great opportunity to tie the life of the Saint to the contemporary representation of Santa Claus. You will need to tailor this activity to suit your own family traditions but the general idea is very simple. You will need: Information

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

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

  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

  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

  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

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