Warm, woolen (or burlap) mittens, blue satin sashes, snowflakes, a few of my favorite things.
Brown paper packages tied up with string.
Hot cocoa bar with gingerbread, strudel and cheese cake bites (snowflakes not up yet)
Paper to write names on for our raffle
We raffled a Christmas Service Advent Frame. The days before christmas you open a card to read a service you will do that day like, make Christmas cookies for a neighbor, let someone go in front of you in the line at the store, read Luke 2 etc.
We also raffled the 2x2 wood nativity.
We raffled 2 Service Mangers with hay (or cut raffia). Our family is doing this and loving it. Every week you draw names to see who you will focus on serving in your family. Every time you serve, you get to add 1 straw to baby Jesus manger. The goal is to have a soft bed for the Christ child before Christmas day.
The plaid papers are a Scripture a Day Advent Chain Countdown that was also raffled. I printed the scriptures on Christmas paper and every day you read a scripture that relates to the birth of our Savior.
Chocolate dipped Marshmallow stirring sticks for the cocoa bar.
This was how the paper in the other picture related to the raffle. If you wanted a service manger then you put your name on a green paper, blue paper was the scripture chain, etc.
It was a fun night. We had a 10 minute lesson on how to focus Christmas on Christ.
We learned how to make our own gift boxes with everyone folding their own papers along with the teacher. 25 min
We learned some creative gift tags that we also got to make. 25 min
We took a cocoa & treat break 10 min
We had a favorite things gift exchange. Everyone brought a "favorite thing" in a brown paper bag. We told why we brought it and did a gift exchange with our gifts. So fun getting to know the women. 15 min
Raffled gift to help our sister do Christ Centered activities in their homes this Christmas.
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