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Christmas Paper Chain, 2013

See the 2012 version here.

This afternoon, while the littles napped, Levi and I made our Christmas paper chain. Once again, he did pretty much all the work!

This year for Advent, we're working through a preschool curriculum called Truth in the Tinsel. It was part of a bundle of e-books I bought a while back, and is all the rage among several of the blogs I read semi-regularly. There is an ornament craft for every day of the week, with accompanying Scripture passage and extra activities. I do NOT expect, in any way, to actually complete an ornament every day, even though they are at the super-simple preschool level! But we're going to do what we can. Also, I'm not putting up a tree this year (see yesterday's post about the destructive 18-month-old in my house, and then remember I'll be nursing a newborn sometime in the next 4 weeks), so I'm not quite sure where I'm going to display the ornaments.

To help keep us on track, I had Levi write the Scripture reference from the curriculum on each link of the paper chain. My plan (and we all know how well plans turn out in a house full of toddlers . . . ) is to tear off a link each night at dinner, read the Scripture and talk about it, and then do the craft afterwards. (Seriously, they are SUPER SIMPLE crafts.) Some days I'm sure we'll do the craft in the morning instead, and that's fine. If we get ten of the 24 done, I'll be happy. :)

Writing the Scripture references on each link.

I purposefully hung the chain up with day 1 at the bottom and day 24 at the top, so that I could match up the date and Scripture passage easily. Then Levi decided to make a "days until Christmas" sign to hang with the chain, so the whole thing is rather backwards. Oh well. 


So far Silas has only reached for it once. If we can keep his hands off for about three days, it should be out of his reach after that!

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