Just a quick note - I stumbled across
this cool idea for an advent activity. We never did one growing up, so I'm not as obsessive as the rest of the blog-osphere, apparently. But this idea is to wrap 25 books up and unwrap one a day to read. I scoured the house for bible books and Friend magazines and copies of the Book of Mormon and managed to wrap up enough to start today. Even though it was a book she already owned and had read before, she loved the activity and can't wait to do it tomorrow! (cool aside, she read the book to me!! I had to help her with the word "Gabriel," but she already knew "Bethlehem" and a few other weird words apparently. !) Plus she's been begging me to let her unwrap the presents she already has, so this gave her a chance to rip the paper off of something. Whew. This tradition is totally a keeper!
I think that's partly why my parents didn't put any presents out until Christmas Eve. Otherwise we would have flipped out so many times before the actual event.
ReplyDeleteI love it! I started already a couple of advent activities with Teaq but this one is very cool. Im sure he would love to unwrap more "presents" before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT! We've been collecting christmas books from deseret book and they always just sit on a shelf. maybe wrapping them will inspire the boys to read them!
ReplyDeleteI'm so doing that all year long!
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