Advent

We had the honor of lighting the Advent candle Sunday at church. This is the second week of Advent. I never really understood Advent until recently and I've been reading a book by Lisa Welchel (Facts of Life fame) called Adventures in Christmas. Its a book filled with hands on ideas to teach your kids about Advent during the Christmas season. So far we have only done one activity and that was about candy canes. The book tells you about the orgin of the candy cane and how they came about. The activity for that day is making candy cane reindeers, pass them out to people and explain the meaning. I had Grant take a bag for his show and tell last week since they were talking about the letter C. During show and tell, they have to describe their object and he explained the story of the candy cane.
The next activity is making Christmas Trees out of sugar cones and decorating them with candy. Then we will read and learn about the history of the Christmas tree. We won't be able to get to every project and day because I just got the book a couple of days ago.
We are trying really hard to teach Grant the real meaning of Christmas and all that it entails. Another book I recomend is A Fruitcake Christmas by: Max Lucado. We are making this book a new tradition in our family. We are going to read it on Christmas Eve instead of The Night Before Christmas.What are some of your traditions?