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Advent youth lessons8/18/2023 You might set up a table with a jigsaw puzzle (500-1000 pieces) to try to complete by Christmas with the help of friends. Prepare a conversational activity and snacks for friends who drop in. Make plates of cookies as gifts and watch your children enjoy the true meaning of Christmas – giving to others. Wassail means “be well” so drink each cup as a toast to each other’s health. Create personalized paper placemats with drawings, stickers, dry transfers, markers, and paints and cover them with plastic wrap or clear shelf adhesive to preserve them. Begin to hang your Christmas decorations. Sing carols about decorations between stops (“Deck the Halls” “Jingle Bells”). Go out to view decorations and vote on the one which best communicates the true meaning of Christmas. Take a few quiet moments of meditation by candlelight. Make a candle carving by tracing a design onto a thick candle and shaving away the wax with a knife. Line a driveway or walk with luminaries (candles set in open paper lunch bags half filled with sand) Set votive or electrical candles in windows. To reinforce the symbolism of light use Christmas candles. Make a set of bell chimes by filling water glasses unequally and see who can tap out a recognizable melody with a spoon. Sing “Jingle Bells” while each family member shakes the rhythm with a bell. Make a pomander ball by pressing whole cloves into an unpeeled orange and hanging it as a symbol for Christmas fragrances. Add spices, (rosemary, laurel, bay, sage) to wreaths and greens. Identify Christmas scents by smelling small bags containing apple slice, bayberry candle, clove, ginger, peppermint, or pine cone.
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