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Contact_FullName: Miss Penny Contact_Email: dolphin261060@yahoo.ca date:: 11/25/06 Area: Christmas Art Idea: A real cute Advent Star for the countdown to Christmas for young children. Make a star with a slit just below the center. Have children make 24 paper chains (if starting on Dec. 1) Attach paper chain to center of star and add the following poem. Each evening after prayers are said, take off one ring and jump in bed. When only the star is left to shine, then you'll know its Christmas time. I don't remember where I found this cute idea but it was a hit in my preschool program for 20 years. Contact_FullName: Nancy Contact_Email: jen22kim@aol.com Area: Advent-Art Idea: Advent Wreath This may be a little messy- but the kids love it. I use it for my 3rd grade Religious Ed class. You will need 1/2C rice, 1/4C glue, and about 3 drops of green food coloring for each wreath. Mix everything together and pour onto wax paper and shape into a wreath (or use the lid of a large butter container. Place 4 birthday candles (in Advent colors) around the wreaths. You can also decorate the wreath by using Christmas themed confetti or punch out paper from red construction paper. Let dry over night. Light the candles for each Sunday of Advent. Contact_FullName: Sue Contact_Email: MsSue3@yahoo.com Area: Advent-Art Idea: My pre-school class makes advent wreath banners. In advance I prepare the banner by hot gluing a 9x12 piece of felt to a dowel rod and tie a piece of yarn to hang. I precut green holly leaves and purple and pink candles. The class glues the holly leaves in a circular shape on the banner and then adds the candles. I send home flames cut from yellow felt so the children can add a flames as they 'light' one candle for each week of advent. The banner can be used again each year (the flames will stick to the felt, no need to glue them). I also send home a simple prayer and explanation for each candle, 3 purple candles represent Hope, Peace and Love, and 1 pink represents Joy. ontact_FullName: Rene' Contact_Email: nay27203@earthlink.net Area: Christmas-Advent Idea: Every year we make and advent calendar. This year we made one with a nativity scene. On a large piece of black construction paper, using a white crayon, list the days in December. Start with 25 at the top of the paper and count down to 1, spacing over the top half of the paper only. These numbers will be covered each day with a silver star sticker, the number 25 being covered last with a large yellow construction paper star. By painting both of the children's hands brown, and placing them sideways so that thumbs are down and fingers pointing toward each side of the paper (right fingers point to left side of paper, and left fingers to right side of paper), you will make a manger. We then glued straw down and placed baby Jesus in the manger (small circle from flesh felt, oval body out of blue construction paper, wiggle eyes, and gold glitter halo). We then placed a stable over the baby (two rectangles for the sides and a "v" for the top, cut out of tan construction paper). Every day the children come in and tell my they put their stars in the sky! 12-12-00Advent wreath: You will need green, pink, and purple finger paint. The teacher paints a green circle around the outside of the palm of the child's hand. Then paint the third finger pink and the other three fingers purple, do not paint the thumb. The children then press there hand down on a sheet of construction paper. After it dries add flames at the tips of the fingers for candles.
12-5-00Advent wreath For each child you need 4 toilet paper tubes, a 12" circle of cardboard, four 6" squares of yellow tissue paper, a 2 ft. piece of artificial garland, pink, purple and green tempera paint, and gold glitter. Paint 3 TP tubes purple and 1 pink. Paint the cardboard circle green. Cut slits around the bottom of each TP tube, about 1/2 inch up, and hot-glue onto the green base so that the "candles" stand up. Hot-glue the artificial greenery around the candles. Fold the yellow tissue paper to look like a flame, and dip in watered down glue, then in glitter. Put the "flame" down inside the candle tubes. Each week the child can reach into the tube and pull up a flame--until all four are lit. My kids and parents loved this last year!
12-5-00Each year the children make an Advent wreath. I mix up a simple salt dough recipe with the children. We add green food coloring to the dough. After it cools a little, I let the children help kneed the dough. Then each child rolls their piece out like a snake. They then make it into a circle by joining the two ends to form the circle. Take an unsharpened pencil and make four holes in the "wreath'. Bake until the wreath hardens, usually about 1 hour at 250 degrees. When it is cool, let the children add candles to the wreath. Three purple and 1 pink. Let the children take it home at the beginning of Advent and their parents can light a candle the first week, two the second week, three the third week, and finally all four are lit on Christmas. Advent Wreaths For advent this year, I pre-cut the centers out of paper plates. Each day the children traced their hand on green construction paper and cut it out. Next, I had them tell me one gift they could give to baby Jesus (they could share, they could help their parents, etc...) and I wrote it on the hand. We stapled the hands to the cut-out plate and by the time school finished, we had a beautiful advent wreath. On the last day, we dipped our fingers in red paint and dabbed some berries onto our wreaths. I added a large red bow to the bottom and the parents were thrilled!
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