Advent: Making A Bed
I am really excited to bring Advent into our family traditions this year. Until recently it hasn't meant more than a chocolate a day calendar. This year we will be building on anticipation as a family in a couple of different ways. One, I mentioned previously, will be gathering with two other families once a week. The one I want to share in this post is what we will be doing just with our family.
We are preparing a bed for the Christ child. Today we made a manger out of an old doll box. To make the experience more personal we each drew/wrote on newsprint things that we thought a baby would enjoy or about the baby. Then we covered the feedbox/manger with our papers. Some of the images were crowns, crosses, diaper pin, and stars. On mine I wrote the word 'mama' over and over and on my 5 year olds she drew His Mother. We both were thinking of what a newborn needs most.
Next week we will fill the manger with straw. The following week swaddling cloths. The final week the girls will look and find a doll in the manger.
Here is the doll I chose. It was important to me that one, he be an anatomically correct boy doll, and that he not be fair skinned and blue eyed.
We are preparing a bed for the Christ child. Today we made a manger out of an old doll box. To make the experience more personal we each drew/wrote on newsprint things that we thought a baby would enjoy or about the baby. Then we covered the feedbox/manger with our papers. Some of the images were crowns, crosses, diaper pin, and stars. On mine I wrote the word 'mama' over and over and on my 5 year olds she drew His Mother. We both were thinking of what a newborn needs most.
Next week we will fill the manger with straw. The following week swaddling cloths. The final week the girls will look and find a doll in the manger.
In full agreement on the skin, eyes and anatomy. My mom-friends are horrified when I do stuff like that though :)
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