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Christmas Book Basket

December 10, 2018 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

I finally dug out and found all of our Christmas books, I think! Since Advent was in full swing before I got the Christmas books out and I wasn’t going to have time to wrap each one I decided to put them in our book basket. Our book basket has been a place for our book books and most read bedtime favorites but for the month of December it will house all of our Christmas books.

I will share multiple pictures and try to list every book that we own. I know that some are very old and were Riley’s when he was a child which might mean they are hard to find or out of print! Some of the Christmas books are newer bought as gifts or given to use for book reviews but either way we love them!

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LEGO Christmas Building Ideas

December 7, 2018 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

If you own a ton of LEGO and want your children to have fun during this Christmas season then why not try one of these Christmas building ideas? Some of these ideas are for daily builds throughout Advent or one idea for each day of December BUT you can use the ideas in any order.

The 31 Days of December Brick Challenge from My Joy Filled Life includes a printable as well as links to some of the builds.

Little Bins for Little Hands offers a Christmas Countdown LEGO Advent Calendar that includes 25 days of building ideas.

Counting down to Christmas has never been as fun as Frugal Fun 4 Boys DIY LEGO Advent Calendar.

If you prefer to do a Jesse Tree Brick Challenge then Proverbial Homemaker has just the thing you need!

Of course we don’t want to leave your younger builders out of the Advent fun. You can make your own LEGO Nativity Puzzles using Duplo blocks just like I can Teach My Child shows you how!

How do you plan to use LEGO in your Christmas building this year?

Last Minute Ways to Study Advent

December 6, 2018 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

I know I know I know. Advent and Christmas come around once a year pretty much the same week and I should be ready by Thanksgiving, right? Well, I do think about different ways to celebrate Advent and think it’s too early to print off advent activity guides or research advent plans or reading guides. Now we are a few days into Advent and have not begun to start a proper Advent study in any way. Does this sound familiar to you or are you one of these super organized mom’s that have it all planned out..

A handful of simple LAST MINUTE Ways to study #Advent! #Christisthereason #ChristmasCountdown

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If you are like me and still trying to get kids to finish up another week or so of school work before the new year then you probably do not have time to track down Advent plans so I have down the work for you. I want to do something but not quite sure what so I figured I would research a handful of ways to study Advent and share them with you.

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Free Advent Journal Pages

November 9, 2017 By Thaleia 1 Comment

I have designed a free printable pack for you that contains 3 Advent Journal Pages for multiple ages. I wanted to offer a simple printable that could be used by the whole family while writing about Advent. I know how tight homeschoool budgets can be and how limited of time finding free resources can be.

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I just got some Free Advent Journal Pages! #homeschool #handwriting #advent

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5 Days of Easy DIY Advent Calendars: Devotionals

November 30, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

5 Days of Easy DIY Advent Calendars:

Devotionals

Spend five days checking out five different types of Advent calendars: Family Activities, Jesse Tree, Handmade, Vintage, Edible, and Devotional . I hope these ideas will help provide the inspiration that you need to decide how to celebrate with your family. I have invited a few friends to share along the way to make this super fun! If you just cannot wait until we all have shared what we’ve found you can pop on over to pinterest to pick out an idea for your family!

What better way to spend the season to reflect and learn about the True Meaning of Christmas! YES, we celebrate Jesus at our house. Sometimes we do better at giving and sharing then others, but this year I want to really focus on HIM!

Here’s five Free printable Devotions:

“Getting back to the truth and simplicity of the Advent and Christmas season – isn’t this what we strive to do? That was our goal, and hope, for Taking the Advent Story Home.”

Taking The Advent Story Home from Vibrant Faith Ministires

Advent Devotionals from Kristen Knox Stewart

With some planning you can create this Advent Calendar idea for your family.

DIY Advent Calendar with Easy Devotions from Moments with my Miracles

Calendar Connections are printables to use daily during homeschool or preschool calendar time to learn a specific theme for the entire month. Quick, simple and very informative.