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Tuesday 2 December 2014

December Day #2

I didn't mention yesterday the books I use for December.  I usually use The 25 Days of Christmas by Rebecca Hayford Bauer.  It is so full of ideas and a great framework work my own ideas into.



This year we are trying The Truth In The Tinsel which comes in the form of an e-book and is suitable for preschool and a little older.


Today our angels were standing by the candy cane advent calendar on the mantel piece so they were easy to find!  
They were holding a broken heart with the verse "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 1 John 4:10  Our sin makes us broken, but God had a plan to make us whole again.  That is the reason Jesus was born; to fulfill God's plan to make a way for us to be saved and made right before Him.

Grace and Promise

We read about Zechariah today in Luke 1:5-25.  God promised Zechariah that he and his wife Elizabeth would have a baby.  They both had longed for a baby but now were old, so understandably Zechariah questioned the angel in his doubt.  Because he did not believe he was unable to speak until his son John was born.  Zechariah reminds us to believe God's promises even if they seem impossible!

The children with their little Zechariah men.  We glued a bubble from bubble wrap on for his mouth.
This was a The Truth in Tinsel activity.


We also made a big poster to put some of our crafts on over the next 3 weeks.

Crystal and Butterfly talking about Christmas stuff


Today Butterfly and Cedar opened the book presents.  Follow The Star is a board book with a lovely re-telling of the journey of the wise men.  A Patch Work Christmas is a lovely little book Butterfly got when she attended Mainly Music 8 years ago.  It is a story about a mum and her daughter making a patchwork Christmas tree with scrap material telling the story of Jesus.



We baked cookies, lots of yummy wreath cookies.  Butterfly is our baking girl now. 

Butterfly and Cedar - SHE is rolling cookie dough, HE is making white circles of flour with the little sieve, THEY are making a mess but having fun!

Cookies cut and being decorated with M&M's.
No M&M's were eaten during this phase of construction!

Add a tiny icing bow and they are good to go...down into our tummies!


I did forget to mention yesterday that one very exciting part of December is being allowed to watch the DVDs reserved for these weeks.  Cedar was just bursting to watch The First Snow of Winter!  And we all love Winnie the Pooh!  




Last of all today they all convinced me to have home made hot chocolate with candy cane stirrers!




I will put our home made hot chocolate recipe on my food blog here along with the dinner we made tonight which was so yummy - Baked potatoes, bacon and egg bake and salad.

~Lorna

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