ADVENT-urous Tags

The ADVENT-urous Tag 

Visual Faith project was pioneered

 by Michele Schulteis when she was a member

 at Bethany Lutheran Church, 

Long Beach, California.

She put together a number of resources

 to create a tool for family conversation. 

It was made at an ADVENT event 

as an intergenerational project.

 For the church setting 

they used large manila tags-

#8 size. 

But, then we had requests for ideas 

for individual families to make this project.

To be cost-effective for large groups-

#8 tags come in a stash of 1000.

Don't really need that in a one family setting.

(Except you might have so much fun.....)

So we decided to use JUMBO 

playing cards from the Dollar Store.
( they are now hard to find there
 and we order them on Amazon)

One deck makes 2 full sets.

On the playing card side 

I simply added old Christmas cards

 with double-sided tape.

It makes an Advent calendar of sorts-

a question for conversation each day.

The project can be downloaded 

at the Visual Faith Ministry website-

at the link for Seasonal Resources.

ADVENT-urous tags
with full directions here.
AND.... if it is too late to think
 about for this year,
well, they'd make great gifts
 for NEXT year.

Here are young ones making 
their ADVENT tags 
at a family ADVENT event
 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church
 in Walled Lake, Michigan.

For the manila tags- 
Christmas wrapping paper or scrapbook paper
and washi tape
 make this project a whole lot of fun!