{"id":3411,"date":"2005-12-06T03:12:29","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2021-04-09T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:37:54","slug":"advent-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/object-lessons\/advent-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/ornaments1.jpg\" alt=\"ornaments1.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"135\">What do sand, trees, money, pearls, wheat, and mustard seeds have in common? Jesus used them all as tangible symbols or object lessons to help his disciples to understand and remember intangible truths. The Master Communicator often attached deeper meanings to common things and objects.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabetically listed are 25 items commonly associated with Advent and Christmas, one object lesson per day starting December 1, to help your family attach deeper spiritual insight to traditional customs and apply what they have learned to everyday life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p><strong>Aromas (December 1)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nIdentify Christmas scents by smelling small bags containing apple slice, bayberry candle, clove, ginger, peppermint, or pine cone. Place fresh evergreens around. Add spices, (rosemary, laurel, bay, sage) to wreaths and greens. Make a pomander ball by pressing whole cloves into an unpeeled orange and hanging it as a symbol for Christmas fragrances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bells (Dec. 2)<\/strong><br \/>\nSing \u201cJingle Bells\u201d while each family member shakes the rhythm with a bell. Make a set of bell chimes by filling water glasses unequally and see who can tap out a recognizable melody with a spoon. Hang bells as the symbol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candles (Dec. 3)<\/strong><br \/>\nTo reinforce the symbolism of light use Christmas candles. Line a driveway or walk with luminaries (candles set in open paper lunch bags half filled with sand) Set votive or electrical candles in windows. Make a candle carving by tracing a design onto a thick candle and shaving away the wax with a knife. Eat dinner by candlelight. Take a few quiet moments of meditation by candlelight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decorations (Dec. 4)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nGo out to view decorations and vote on the one which best communicates the true meaning of Christmas. Sing carols about decorations between stops (\u201cDeck the Halls\u201d \u201cJingle Bells\u201d). Begin to hang your Christmas decorations. Create personalized paper placemats with drawings, stickers, dry transfers, markers, and paints and cover them with plastic wrap or clear shelf adhesive to preserve them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eating (Dec. 5)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nUse a cookie as today\u2019s symbol. Make some wassail. Wassail means \u201cbe well\u201d so drink each cup as a toast to each other\u2019s health. Make plates of cookies as gifts and watch your children enjoy the true meaning of Christmas &#8211; giving to others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friends (Dec 6)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nPrepare a conversational activity and snacks for friends who drop in. You might set up a table with a jigsaw puzzle (500-1000 pieces) to try to complete by Christmas with the help of friends. It\u2019s appropriate that Jesus&#8217; first friendly visitors were shepherds for he became the good shepherd. Hang candy canes, shaped like a shepherd\u2019s crook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings (Dec 7)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nPlace Christmas cards received in a basket on the dinner table and take turns reading one at each meal. Share happy memories of the senders and include them in prayers. Make a \u201cGood News paper\u201d about Jesus\u2019 birth, including a birthday announcement, copy of Caesar\u2019s census decree, interview with King Herod, a notice about the free concert by the Herald angels in pastures near Bethlehem, etc. The good news of Christmas is that a Savior has been born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home (Dec. 8)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nPeople without a home or away from home tend to feel more lonely at Christmas time. God understands because his Son was away from home for the first time on Christmas Eve. Joseph and Mary spent their first Christmas in Bethlehem, about 60 miles from their home in Nazareth (a 3 day trip). Having no friends or relatives with whom to stay, and no advance reservations at an overbooked hotel, they spent Christmas in a stable. The first home of Jesus, our Spiritual Bread of Life, was Bethlehem which means \u201chouse of Bread\u201d Sing \u201cO Little<br \/>\nTown of Bethlehem as your family prayer.\u201d Symbol: house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Individuals (Dec 9)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ultimate meaning for Christmas is personal, the need for each person to receive God\u2019s gift of forgiveness and eternal life. As a symbol use a picture frame with the child\u2019s picture. Read \u201cA Christmas Carol&#8221; by Dickens to focus on the needs of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus (Dec. 10)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHang a cross to symbolize Jesus. Have a Birthday celebration for Jesus with a star shaped cake. Wrap a toy and donate to a charity as a gift to Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kin (Dec. 11)<\/strong><br \/>\nChristmas is a time to be with family. Hang a family symbol or photo. Talk about Jesus&#8217; family. Do something together as a family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love (Dec. 12)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHang a heart as the symbol. Make a large red heart and write on it the qualities of true love from I Cor. 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music (Dec. 13)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHang a musical note as a symbol. Invite friends to join you in singing carols for shut ins or seniors. Play Christmas music around the house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nativity (Dec. 14)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nSet out a nativity scene. Add pieces daily explaining their relationship to the manger story. Leave the manger empty with a box of straw. When children do good deeds let them place a piece of straw in the manger with the goal of having it filled for Christmas when you place Jesus in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ornaments (Dec. 15)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHelp children make personal ornaments. Make or purchase one cross ornament as a reminder that Jesus&#8217; cradle was the prelude to the cross.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Present (Dec. 16)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nTo focus on giving gifts or presents: help someone less fortunate through donations. Help each person choose and wrap a symbol of an intangible gift for Jesus (i.e. a<br \/>\nheart for love, a clock for time, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions (Dec. 17)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHang a question mark on the tree. Have a quiz on Christmas facts, a spelling bee on Christmas words, etc. The wisemen asked a question in Matt 2:2 seeking Jesus to worship him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red (Dec. 18)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nHow many red Christmas items can you name? Hang one as a symbol. Red symbolizes the blood of Christ, as well as, red holly berries and poinsettia leaves which are vivid reminders of life in a lifeless winter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stocking (Dec. 19)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nRenouncing wealth to serve as a church leader, legend says Saint Nicholas gave his inherited wealth away by putting gold in stockings hung to dry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tree (Dec. 20)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nEstablish some family traditions based around the Christmas Tree. Explain how three trees explain the Christmas story &#8211; Adam lost access to the tree of life by eating from the forbidden tree but Jesus reopened the way to the tree of life by his sacrifice on the cross (itself a tree).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unwrapping (Dec. 21)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nUse an open box to symbolize the unwrapping of gifts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vacation (Dec. 22)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nCreate a vacation calendar and on it creatively plan and build anticipation as to how holidays can be spent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wreath (Dec. 23)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nSee who can count the most circular Christmas items around the house. A wreath is like Jesus in that it never ends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xmas (Dec. 24)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nChristmas literally means &#8220;celebration of Christ&#8221; The X represents the first letter of Christ in the Greek alphabet. Hang a Chi-Rho cross as a symbol, the first two letters of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yule (Dec. 25)&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\nYule is another name for the Christmas Season. You might use a yule log as a symbol. On Christmas morning ask children to stay in bed until they hear Christmas music playing. No Christmas presents are to be opened until everyone is present. Share a worship time before opening gifts. Do at least one fun activity as a family. Make Christmas dinner special with a centerpiece and lighted candles.. Make Christmas place cards with Scriptures to be read. See which family members can share the significance of the 25 ornamental symbols hung this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>Condensed and adapted from &#8220;An Advent Alphabet&#8221; by<br \/>\n<strong>Karen and Terry Hall<\/strong>, Moody Magazine, December 1986<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5124\" title=\"Line Break\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Line-Breaker10-300x1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"1\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Line-Breaker10-300x1.png 300w, http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Line-Breaker10.png 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeobjectlessons.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatimgright alignright\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeobjectlessons.com\/objectlessons_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"109\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE IDEAS? See &#8220;Creative Object Lessons&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n200 page e-book that explains everything you need to know when planning your very own object lessons. It contains 90 fully developed object lesson ideas and another 200 object lesson starter ideas based on Biblical idioms and Names \/ Descriptions of God.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeobjectlessons.com\">Learn More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do sand, trees, money, pearls, wheat, and mustard seeds have in common? Jesus used them all as tangible symbols or object lessons to help his disciples to understand and remember intangible truths. The Master Communicator often attached deeper meanings to common things and objects. 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