Advent Chains

Easy Pleasy Advent Activity:

Advent Chains

I'm a huge fan of easy activities that have a big impact. After prepping my kids for advent I cut out strips of pink and purple paper (you can even plan it to have pink on the week following Guadete Sunday if you want to get specific) and then I have each student write an idea they have for an all class activity we can do together on one of the strips. I then fold the strips and make them into a chain.

Each day of advent we take off a link of the chain and do whatever it says together. Students were really pleased with this because they were in charge of what we did for the first five minutes of each class. They were also really pleased with their ideas, as was I. So far we have sang a song to Jesus in the chapel, prayed a few decades of the Rosary, read the Nativity from the Bible in the courtyard, and committed to multiple good deeds each day. It's been an awesome way to change up class for a short amount of time to enter into the advent prepping spirit.

I'll be posting more soon about how I first prepare my students for what advent is and how we prepare for it.

Grace was here!