Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

We haven’t quite ‘decorated’ our home much this Christmas month. And so I thought of making something simple with the kids.

We made our very own Christmas Wreath.

What we used:

– Drawing Paper (that’s not too flimsy)
– Paper plate
– Watercolour
– Glue, scissors, crayons, scotch tapes

What we did:

– With their hands firmly placed on the paper, I drew outlines of them

– The kids then coloured their own handprint-outlines with watercolour
(a simpler alternative: use green / red coloured paper instead)

– Once the watercolour is dry, I then cut out the ‘handprints’ (Anya tried cutting one, then she told me how the many curves made her fingers ‘ached’. Oh well.)

(Before I cut out the handprints, I drew outlines of a cross, a heart, a Christmas tree and the alphabets J-E-S-U-S. This way, when I got busy cutting the handprints, the kids could continue their colouring)

– Once I’ve cut the handprints, Anya pasted them on the sides of the paper plate (PS: cut out a big hole in the middle of it first).

Now.

I wanted the wreath to have a deeper meaning than just mere decorations, so we pasted the cross at the top, the heart shape at the bottom, and the handprints on the sides (Anya decided to paste all red coloured ones on one side, the green ones on the other).

This way, the wreath says to everyone who walks by our door, how Christmas is about Jesus’ love for everyone and how Jesus loves everyone so much that HE gave His life and died on the cross.

Hm.

We like.

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And btw, this is just an additional thing that Anya pasted on her bedroom door.

A nice little reminder that Christmas is not about Christmas trees, but about Jesus, the Christ in Christmas.

Merry Christmas, everyone!