• Make a Christmas “bucket list” of things you want to do as a family during Advent. • Make a Christmas paper chain to count down the days until Christmas. • Finding Jesus: Use a baby Jesus figure from a nativity set. Hide the figure each day for the kids to look for. Each day hide it closer to the Nativity. • Hang your Christmas stockings. Talk about how the Christmas stockings hang from a hook, but we hang our hope on Jesus (Hebrews 6:19). • Hope in Jesus helps us to keep from sinking into despair. Make hot chocolate and add marshmallows. Like the marshmallows, hope floats. • Plant winter rye grass or another fast-growing plant and watch it grow. Just as the grass grows, the more we trust in God, the more our hope grows! • Ask your kids what they “hope” for. Decide together if their hope is merely “wishful thinking” or if it is a confident hope in the promises of God. FAMILY ACTIVITY GUIDE If you’d like to download the PDF of our family activity guide with these and more activities, visit our website via the link below! waysidechapel.org/advent 8
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