Tip:to add to the festivities, consider keeping the story topic a secret. Giving clues is allowed if you want to. After everyone has been through a few Advents, they will become proficient at figuring the story order out. It's nice if no one announces the event until asked.
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Food suggestions for the Creation Dinner:
- ribs- for the creation of Eve. (I have always bought ribs because there is enough to do on this day, but you could certainly make them)
- Used refrigerated tube breadsticks to make a "man". One for the head and arms. One for the torso and legs. Kind of stuck together. Bake as directed. (2020- we are cutting pizza dough strips and following these directions.) Try to make the whole man a consistent thickness for baking. They probably won't look great. Kids sometimes like to help with this.
- grapes....representing the plants. (Actually, as I am reading the creation account, I am not sure there were even vegetables to be had...maybe that was an after-the-Fall invention😉)?
- Corn on the cob...just in case there were vegetables, we will have this...my husband says it counts as a green vegetable, but I think that only works if you eat the husks and these are frozen and already "peeled", so we'll never try have opportunity to try that part.
- Rice Krispie "worlds"...make crisped rice "dough" as per the directions on the box but split into two bowls, with the caveat of adding a copious amount of food coloring to each marshmallow/butter mixture before adding the rice cereal. Let it cool a little bit. Then take some from each bowl and gently form into a ball. It may try to come apart and as it cools, it may need to be re-coaxed into a sphere. This is the world, and it is our first advent dessert! Wrap in plastic wrap and place globes artfully into a large bowl for the table centerpiece.
- ( 2011) This year, because we had one child in braces, we made cake balls...This is the recipe. Get a box of cake mix and a can of frosting that go together in your taste. Mix them together in a bowl. Make golf ball size balls out of the dough. I like to refrigerate the balls overnight. Place 2 squares vanilla almond bark in a coffee cup and squeeze some blue in there. Microwave about a minute. Stir. Really...don't microwave anymore. Take the balls out of the refrigerator. Dip, using a spoon, one ball at a time in the almond bark mixture. Place on wax paper. Repeat for the number you are making for your group, melting more almond bark as needed. Repeat until all balls are covered. Then melt a couple of squares tinted green. Put a little blob of green on the balls. Put in the refrigerator until ready to eat. Do not put on the table too early, as they may melt.
For the story, you can
Read the creation account in the Bible
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Copy/paste this script-like version of the Bible and read "parts" or just around the table.
Use a Bible storybook (like Arch) or a collection
Watch a cartoon video of the creation account
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Color a creation themed picture
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Ornament-World
We have a "world" that we made from a grapevine ball years ago...painted it partly green a partly blue, but you could also make one from cloth or styrofoam or paper (or something else).
After we read the Creation account, we just kind of stick a branch of the Christmas tree through the grapevine stuff. Our tree is artificial, so the wiry branches can clamp on to most ornaments.
Remember to look ahead for tomorrow so you aren't caught by surprise...
If you are moving faster than I am, you can go to my old blog:
beinberean.blogspot.com
to get a rough idea of what is coming up, but be advised that I am updating this as I go.
Yay for you! Advent Day 1 is in the books!
Angela :-)
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