The Advent-Christmas Book (Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Traditions) [Spiral-bound]

Joan Marie Arbogast (Author), Virginia Helen Richards (Illustrator), Mary Emmanuel Alves (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004 | Series: Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Traditions

The Advent-Christmas Book is the answer for teachers and parents who want to keep Christ in Christmas, create meaningful family traditions, and celebrate the season in classroom and home with handmade kid-friendly crafts, gifts, and recipes. The Advent-Christmas Book offers teachers and parents: Directions for an easy-to-make Advent wreath for home or classroom Simple Advent wreath ceremony Easy-to-follow format by theme Read-together stories for each week of Advent Community building activities for all ages 25 hands-on activities and hand-made gift ideas that are easy for students to complete on their own Family Take Home Pages and other reproducible pages for teachers Directions for celebrating a Baby Jesus Birthday Party at home or school Suggestions for beginning family Christmas customs and traditions 30 reproducible pages of puzzles and games Multi-cultural Christmas suggestions Ideas for celebrating the Feasts of the Christmas season Advent/Christmas reflections for parents and teachers Author: Joan Marie ArbogastPublisher: Pauline BooksFormat: 140 pages, spiral boundISBN: 0819807745

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 144 pages
• Publisher: Pauline Books & Media (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819807745
• ISBN-13: 978-0819807748
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,104,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent addition to your advent "stash", December 5, 2007

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Mom-2-Five (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Advent-Christmas Book (Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Traditions) (Spiral-bound)

This book does an excellent job of covering all the "basics" of the advent season. I want to stress that this book is basic. If you are looking for detailed litergical explainations this is not the book.

This book can be used for homes and classroom settings. I would say this book would be appropriate for any age in the family setting. (because you would make personal family adaptations) In the classroom setting I would say this can be used for primary and secondary elementary students.

Helpful information at the beginning of each section. It gives you an "objective" of what the activities are focusing on in each section. Here is a short statement from week two: 'Because we're also preparing their hearts for the coming Prince of Peace, this week contains peace-making activities'.

Each week (or chapter) starts out with a story. Each week has daily bible verses and a response/prayer. Appropiate crafts are included as well as a few easy recipes. For the classroom setting, each week has a "take-home" family page. The book has reproducible pages so that you do not have to draw or create your own templates. (thank goodness!) The last section also includes many reproducible word finds, mazes, pictures, etc. EXCELLENT for the classroom. On a personal note, I must say that I was pleased with this section. There were a few easy pictures for my preschoolers to color and a few challenging pages for my 10 year old.

This book includes a Birthday Party for Jesus. It has invitiations, cake and game ideas.

This year our family is doing the stories and the reponses. But we are also doing/trying: Paper Chain Advent Calendar; Making Ornaments (recipe); Helping Hands Coupons; Potato-Stamp Note Cards; Wreath Treats; Bird Feeders; Gift Bags; Trail Mix; Peppermint Bark; some of the b-day party games and some of the reproducible pages.

Hope this helps!?

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice Advent prayer and activity book, November 28, 2011

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This review is from: The Advent-Christmas Book (Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Traditions) (Spiral-bound)

We just started using it and it's perfect for Advent with children. There are many activities, crafts and thoughtful prayers.