Most of the supplies for this project we already had on hand courtesy of CraftProjectIdeas.com. But we did seek out a few specialized items (like the metallic pompoms) to make the project just right. “Can we do red tonight?! Can we do red tonight?!” Each year, my children eagerly anticipate our Christmas tree tradition, and […]
Counting Down to Christ: Advent Scriptures for Daily Reading
This tutorial is coming quite late for this season. I had the templates ready well in advance, but then couldn’t find the labels and tags locally, except at Staples — who wanted twice as much for them as anywhere else. So I had to order them and wait for them to be shipped. Maybe, like […]
Our Advent Christmas Tree Tradition (part 3)
The final layer of our Christmas tree traditional decorations is gold, which represents the future and looking toward heaven. (Or “glorification,” if you want to use fancy theological terminology. Which Michael did, for the sake of teaching Ariel the vocabulary.) “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” is a great carol for this one! “Now I […]