Last week, I saw this neat Advent calendar idea. In short, you can purchase a digital download of a “random acts of kindness” cards, which benefits the Cystinosis Research Foundation. It’s a cool idea, so I purchase the download. But, I realized I can’t do a random act of kindness with the kids each day. There are days where we only have an hour and a half to eat dinner, do bedtime and spend a bit of time together.
But, I loved the idea of random acts of kindness in the Advent season. I decided to use the ideas from the RAK cards for some days, and fill in the rest with Bible verses.
The cards for Monday-Thursdays are Bible verses related to Christ’s birth and why we need Him in our lives. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are a random act of kindness that we will do.
I had to gather some supplies.
I wanted to stamp the envelope with the date, but apparently stamps are crazy expensive at Hobby Lobby. Not happening. I should have printed the date on them, but I ended up hand writing the date on each.
In Photoshop, I made the actual template for the cards. I was inspired by the RAK cards one, but that ones says “Random Acts of Kindness”, so I wanted to make one that was accurate to what we are doing.
I know the little symbol in the middle looks like a sun, but I’m calling it a Moravian Star.
When I went to print them out, I realized that I had no colored ink cartridges. Only black. Oh well.
I could only find 2 finish nails, so I had to hang the two strings from the same nails. It would look a bit better and the cards would overlap less if I had 4 nails.
Can’t wait to start! Anyone have any fun Advent traditions of your own?
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We light candles each Sunday of Advent, which is a very common tradition in Sweden. The children love when we light first one, then two, then three then all four candles. We also hang stars in our windows, another common Swedish tradition. It looks so pretty in the dark!
Thank you for sharing! I am not familiar with Swedish traditions and it’s fun to hear about them. That sounds beautiful!
The stars often look like these: http://www.belysningsdesign.se/julbelysning/julstjarnor . Although most of ours are made of wood or straw. I too enjoy reading about the traditions in other countries! And we got to celebrate Thanksgiving with American friends which was really great.