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Thursday, December 21, 2017

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! 

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