A Simple Advent Plan
Many of you started Unearthing Wonder on the first Sunday of advent and then ran out of content by the fourth Sunday. Others of you want something super simple because a 25 day reading plan is more than your family can handle this year. Here is a 5 day advent plan that you can do before or after Christmas to bring a little more of the sacred into the season.
Day 1
Read or listen to
by Rachel Isadora (click for Youtube link)
Look at
Read Isaiah 9:2, 6-7
Day 2
Read or listen to The Night of Las Posadas by Tomie de Paola (Youtube link)
Roll beeswax candles.
Sing O Holy Night
Read Luke 1:26-38
Day 3
Read or listen to Twas the Night of Christmas by Glenys Nellist
Make clay candle holders. See tutorial here.
Sing Silent Night
Read Luke 2:1-7
Day 4
Listen to “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina Rossetti, performed by Keith and Kristyn Getty
Make a pinecone birdfeeder-spread peanut butter on a pinecone. Roll in birdseed. Hang for the birds.
Sing Away in a Manger
Read Luke 2:8-14
Day 5
Listen to The Friendly Beasts by Tomie de Paola
Sing The Friendly Beasts
Make sugar cookies
Read John 1:1-5
