I know we all have a different holiday on our minds, but it’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas! We found out about this great Christmas tradition last year and have been excited to share it with you ever since! The 25 Days of Christ is a kit to make 25 symbolic Christmas ornaments that celebrate the life of Christ.
Every year I set out to make sure our family focuses more on the Savior then on all the other stuff. I love the other stuff, don’t get me wrong…but sometimes when the presents are all unwrapped and the season ends I feel like we missed the real meaning.
This kit is going to be a perfect way to get my kids excited about learning about the life of Jesus Christ – through scriptures, songs, and stories. It includes a booklet with the reading for each day. The ornaments come unfinished but include all the fabric, etc you need to complete them (besides paint and glue.) I am planning on making mine, but since Holly’s kids are a little older she is going to have them help! What a great family activity!
Now, here’s the deal – these kits are already SOLD OUT for 2013. Right now, you can put your name on a waitlist for a kit for next year. Wondering why we’re posting about it then?
They saved one kit for us to giveaway
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One of my favorite traditions is baking Christmas cookies with my daughters.
My favorite tradition is driving though a trail of lights on Ft. Hood with my hubby. It’s so much fun to have him to myself! 🙂
We always dress up and spend Christmas eve having an “elegant” evening. Then on Christmas day we lay around in our jammies all day!
My favorite tradition is having family together.
We always sleep under the tree the night we put the lights on 🙂
We don’t have many solid Christmas traditions, but we do go caroling (with treats) every year to those who have served us in church throughout the year. Would love to find something good, just for our family, that we can hang on to every year.
I love our town’s Christmas eve live nativity!
Favorite Christmas tradition is reading Christmas books under the twinkling of the Christmas lights. 🙂
My favorite tradition is the Candle Light service at Church on Christmas eve. SO special!
My favorite Christmas tradition is writing letters to Christ on Christmas Eve. It helps us to keep the focus on what Christmas is really about. Since Christmas is celebrating Christ’s birth, we write letters to Him to tell him what gifts we would like to give him this coming year (getting along better with siblings, more dedicated to scripture study, more Christ centered, etc.) We seal them and and place them in a special gold box. We open the letters the following year and read over them to evaluate how we have done before writing a new one.
I love reading your blog! I especially love that you are sisters because I just started a blog with my daughter (literally like a week ago). We’re still brand new and still have a lot of work on the site but would love it if you check us out!
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My favorite tradition for Christmas is making sugar cookies and treats for reindeer on Christmas eve. We also read the Christmas story from the Bible
our favorite tradition is a book that we have that has a song and a scripture and a story about the savior for each day of December. I think these ornaments would be the perfect compliment to that for my littler kiddos!
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting all my kids new pjs and watching them all come down the stairs in them Christmas morning. We always make them sit on the stairs for a picture before we can start opening our presents.
What an awesome idea! Thanks for letting us know about this. Our favorite tradition is probably on Christmas Eve. We all write down what our gift to Jesus will be that upcoming year (Some sort of service, a determination to become kinder, read scriptures more faithfully etc.) and of course acting out the nativity.
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I love gathering together as family, reading Luke 2, singing our favorite Christmas songs, and just feeling the incredible spirit that fills our home. Super close 2nd favorite activity- doing a secret santa ding dong ditch activity together as a family…everyone gets in on the excitement of gift giving and making others Christmas more merry and bright.
Getting together with extended family on Christmas eve. Eating lots of food, exchanging gifts and telling the story of Luke 2.
My favorite Christmas tradition is being together as a family and sharing the true meaning of Christmas through readings and devotions.
baking cookies!
Having Christmas Eve dinner together.
Going to Temple Square in SLC and going to a voice male concert.
Opening presents with my gigantic family at 3am!
my favorite tradition is all of us siblings (there are 7 of us 10 to 28) all sleep together in the basement at my parent’s house chirstmas eve, it started out so my parents could get the presents under the tree unseen, now it’s become one of my favorite things, and this year we will be adding the next generation, my niece!
One of my favorite traditions is our Christmas Boxes. Every year, we put together boxes for Operation Christmas Child. The best gift we can give and receive.
My favorite Christmas tradition is our family Christmas Eve party every year.
My favorite tradition is Christmas caroling to hand out treats to the neighbors!
My favorite tradition at Christmas is decorating the tree!
We get a new Christmas decoration for our family every year. It’s fun to look back at each year since we’ve been married when we decorate the tree!
Fondue for Christmas Eve dinner!
I like to make cookies and have the kids write a letter to Santa. Then we leave everything out for him….!
We have a waffle dinner on Christmas Eve with all of my big, crazy family.
The cookie exchange I do with my friends, who are my family!
Some of our favorite traditions include; elf on the shelf, egg mac-muffins on Christmas morning and riding the Polar Express in Lindon, Utah!!
Setting up the creche scene. I also love putting the nutcrackers up on the ledge.
would love it!
we love driving around looking at nights!
My favorite is watching all the old classic Christmas films like It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve all together and eating homemade Christmas cookies!
Spending Christmas Day at my Mom’s home with our family and my sister’s family.
Oh my gosh…I so want these and I need these. We have been doing advent for the past 5 years with the grandkids sending a full board to each home and this year we will be starting Jesse Tree…I so need these. I am on the waiting list for next year as I need 4 sets. It would be so amazing to start this year with this kit and next year send one to each home. I have never seen these and want to say THANK YOU for posting. As much as I hope I win your set this year I know my grandkids will enjoy them for many many years to come…I can see them now reading and hanging the correct one each day…what a joy to share the love of Jesus with your children and grand children!
My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve with my family and then opening our stockings on Christmas morning!
Riding around in our PJ’s looking at lights!
We have a Christmas unwrapping party – a bible (for the Christmas story), a banana (for desert), a song book (for carols), and some sort of Xmas/white elephant gift exchange game (usually the Left-Right) game.
My favorite tradition is attending church on Christmas Eve, and singing in church by candlelight to “Silent Night”. It makes me cry every year!
Reading The Night Before Christmas with lots of voices and some silliness. I’m going to start a new one once I have grandkids-giving them 25 Christmas books to read the days leading up to Christmas.
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the entire house. Trees in every room and decorations everywhere. It takes forever but I love it!
Lisa k.
My favorite tradition is watching the Muppets Christmas Carol, and the Grinch. and driving around and looking at lights.
One of my favorite traditions is singing silent night by candlelight at our Christmas Eve church service and then coming home to have the kids open one present…..new pajamas! 🙂
One of my favorite traditions is singing silent night by candlelight at our Christmas Eve church service and then coming home to have the kids open one present…..new pajamas! 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is just having all of the family together and celebrating. We go without gift giving sometimes because it just gets hectic (and very expensive) with a large family. It’s everyone getting together that really makes the holiday special though.
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My favorite tradition so far is doing the family life ‘what God wants for Christmas’ activities.
Awesome!! Love this!! Can be passed down from generation to generation!! Maybe I can get one next year because I never win anything. LOL!!
Thank you for the chance to win this!
My favorite tradition is putting up the Christmas lights with my dad. We do it together every year – even when I moved across the country and he had to wait until I got home (on 12/23) to put them up!
My favorite tradition is inviting someone to come spend Christmas Day with us. We have no family nearby so they become out family,
Making gingerbread cookies with our little ones on Christmas Eve.
My favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve program the kids put on after a yummy traditional dinner. Then we close every program with my dad playing the guitar while we sing “Silent Night” in German, just the way it was originally performed in Austria.
We sit around the Christmas Tree, on Christmas Eve night, singing carols and telling stories as we sip hot chocolate. Then, the next morning we gather again to sing Happy Birthday to our Savior. 🙂
Definitely the Christmas Eve service . . .
Spending time with family and focusing on the true meaning of Christmas.
We read the Christmas Story from the Bible every year, before any gifts are open. We have always done it. It is a wonderful way to have a reminder of what Christmas should be about, before all of the hoopla begins.
My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve church service and dinner! Thanks for the giveaway.
These are so cute! We haven’t really latched to a tradition yet in my household, except that we actually decorate & I make sure to explain to my oldest the true meaning behind christmas 🙂
Daddy reading the Christmas account from Luke 2 🙂
Getting a new ornament every year and decorating the tree. I did this with my 21 year old son and now I’m having fun carrying on the tradition with my 5 year old daughter. We always include big brother 🙂 this would be a wonderful to do with my daughter. Thanks for the giveaway!
Getting a new ornament every year and decorating the tree. I did this with my 21 year old son and now I’m having fun carrying on the tradition with my 5 year old daughter. We always include big brother 🙂 this would be a wonderful to do with my daughter. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite Christmas tradition is flying home from California to Ohio every year for two weeks…we leave Southern California’s palm trees, and sunny, warm days just in time to join my family in the snowy wonderland of Ohio….Instant holiday cheer!
Driving around together as a family looking at Christmas lights with Christmas carols playing.
Driving around together as a family looking at Christmas lights with Christmas carols playing.
Giving Christmas P.J.’s to my niece and nephew to wear Xmas eve.
Giving Christmas P.J.’s to my niece and nephew to wear Xmas eve.
Giving gifts. I love shopping and picking out things my family members would really love and then seeing their reactions. It’s the best.
This is a fabulous product!! My favorite tradition is spending so much time with my family & friends!
I love to decorate the Christmas tree, listen to music, read stories with my boys, look at lights. I don’t have a favorite tradtion, I love them all!
Looking at Christmas lights, Christmas Eve church, and watching Christmas Vacation with my family.
How do you pick just one thing? Tree hunting, Christmas Eve service, wonder-filled eyes on Christmas morning, and so much more.
Before midnight mass, my familiy and I always open one christmas present! Its something my mom started and I’m carrying on with my family:)
This is awesome! I have a bracelet that is a similar idea.
decorating the house
I love baking cookies and all the other treats.
My favorite Christmas tradition is making ornaments with my sister. We choose a theme for our tree each year and make everything to go with that. Last year was Joy to the World and all the decorations were taken from the song lyrics…with Baby Jesus at the top of the tree!
I love the many opportunities to be with family and listening to Christmas music.
I love the many opportunities to be with family and listening to Christmas music.
Waking up to breakfast casserole that my mom makes every year is my favorite.
My favorite tradition has to be helping my mom put up her Christmas tree. My sister and I do it the day after Thanksgiving, with lots of hot chocolate and Christmas music.
I love decorating the tree and singing carols.
I love decorating the tree and singing carols.
We get together with our kids and families on Christmas Eve and have supper, Santa visit and open gifts. Would love to start this tradition with our younger son.
We get together with our kids and families on Christmas Eve and have supper, Santa visit and open gifts. Would love to start this tradition with our younger son.
Love this! I can’t wait to get one! 🙂
We also love acting out the nativity front the Bible. It’s definitely a hit with our little kids, and it reminds everyone about the true meaning of Christmas.
My favorite tradition is going and looking at lights with the kids.
When we decorate the tree we start a fire and I make my Nana’s hot chocolate!
I love sharing Christ with my family each year…we try to add it in somewhere to share him with our unbelieving family members…
I love sharing Christ with my family each year…we try to add it in somewhere to share him with our unbelieving family members…
My favorite tradition is riding around with the kids looking at lights in our pajamas. We drink hot cocoa and eat popcorn and leave thank you notes for our favorites.
My favorite tradition is family service at our church, followed by a casual dinner, tucking in little anticipated and excited children and then playing Santa!
I love going to church and singing Silent Night by candlelight. I also love just the miracle of Christ’s birth.
This is fantastic! I haven’t seen anything like this. Found your post while researching Project Life. There is something so special about the Christmas season, that it’s hard to name just one tradition. One of my favorites is just sitting quietly with the Christmas tree all decorated and lit, and just being thankful for everything.
Hiking out to find the perfect Christmas tree to cutdown
Delivering cookies to friends and neighbors with my kids
Delivering cookies to friends and neighbors with my kids
Driving around with my family looking at Christmas lights while listening to Christmas carols! Can’t wait to do it again this year!
My favorite tradition is one we started when I was young. We went to Christmas Eve service, and almost every year when we left the evening service it would be lightly snowing. Instead of driving straight home, we would drive around looking at Christmas lights. When we did get home, our driveway was lit (like the others in our neighborhood) with luminaries–white lunchbags with a little bit of sand inside them—-the sand held the candle that was lit, and the whole bag looked as if it were a light.
Since my 6 year old daughter was 2 my mom and I have been taking her to The Lady of the Snows Shrine which has a light display about the journey to Jesus’ birth, we started taking my now 4 year old son when he turned 2 also and I can’t wait to take my youngest next year when she’s 2. It’s just a great night to really see what Christmas is truly about.
this would be fantastic!
My favorite Chtistmas tradition is drinking hot cocoa on Christmas Eve while reading The Bible and The Night Before Christmas with my kids.
Decorating the Christmas tree and baking goodies is our favorite tradition!
My favorite Christmas tradition is quoting Luke 2 with my siblings on Christmas morning!
My favorite tradition is HAVING TRADITIONS. It’s one of the things I love most about Christmas!
Our family’s favorite tradition is going to Christmas Eve service at our church & putting on all our footie jammies after! We have done a simple 12 days of Christmas but your craft would be sooooo much more meaningful!
One of my favorite traditions is driving around looking at Christmas lights with the kids. They get so excited! 🙂
My favorite tradition is going driving around to see Christmas displays in our PJ’s!
Seeing the first snow and making snow cream.
I love reading The Night Before Christmas to my boys on Christmas Eve!
Tim Tam Slams and Hot Chocolate!
On a random night in december we surprise the kids and after they’ve bathed and are in jammies we tell them to hop in the car and we drive around looking at christmas lights, drinking hot chocolate and listen to our favorite christmas music (usually from the polar express). 🙂
Looking at Christmas lights.
going to church on christmas eve
Decorating our main tree while listening to Christmas music and sipping coffee, and doing out Jesse Tree throughout the month are my favorites!
pajamas on Christmas Eve!
My favorite Christmas tradition is the entire family sitting together by the fire, while one of us reads the Christmas story aloud.
My favorite tradition is having all of my kids and their families come over Christmas morning as soon as they finish their family Christmas celebration. We have breakfast casserole and open all of our presents. Their are 18 and counting so very hectic in my little house but such wonderful memories.
One of my favorite traditions is baking cookies with my Mom. We’ve done it for as long as I can remember and, once my daughter was old enough to help, she joined the tradition with us! 🙂
What a great idea!! Even if I don’t win I can’t wait until 2014 to integrate it into our family traditions!! Please check out http://www.thefunkybucket.com/ to see how I integrate it! I hope to win this so I can start it this year!!
Mass on Christmas Eve. All dressed up. Brings back the anticipation of child hood
Christmas Eve dinner with all my extended family!
My favorite Christmas tradition is every year the kids and I make Christmas cookies, make cocoa and watch Elf together. They are 14, 17, & 20 and still look forward to it. Our treat this year is we get to share it fir the first time with their new 11 month old little sister! I love these memories.
My favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve dinner, pj’s for the kids and reading the story of Christ’s birth.
Every year on Christmas Eve our whole family gets together and my father-in-law reads Luke 2, we sing carols, eat yummy treats and open one gift.
Christmas caroling and acting out the Christmas story on Christmas Eve.
Spending time with family on Christmas. Eve!
My favorite tradition is my husband cutting down the tree and the kids helping decorate it!
One of my favorite Christmas tradition is setting up the Christmas Tree. I have 2 little girls and it is so fun to see the excitement in their eyes as they decorate it.
What a great way to keep the spirit of Christ in Christmas!
I created a binder at a church activity called A Story a Day Until Christmas. We start it December 1st and there is also a Christmas song and scripture that go with each day. 🙂
Christmas dinner with extended family & gathering around the piano to sing!!!!
Decorating for christmas is always a highlight. I love that it serves as a constant reminder of Jesus Birth.
One of my favorites is hanging up decorations to Christmas music!
My favorite Christmas tradition is attending Christmas Eve Mass.
Putting up our Jesus Tree ornaments and talking about all Christ has taught us and done for us.
I am so excited to have found your blog and I would love to use this stuff with my babies.
I love visiting family all over the state!
I love hosting Christmas dinner for both sides of our family
We LOVE cutting down the tree together.
It’s a very new tradition but one I hope we continue for many years to come………….instead of exchanging gifts we put our money together ( my family, my sister’s family, my mom and sometimes a few other extended family members) to purchase a cow or chickens for World Vision. So love doing that!
My favorite tradition for Christmas is Brunch with our family and then reading the Christmas Story to our 11 grandchildren, of course, their parents listen in and those grands now range in age from 22 to 6. Such a beautiful tradition.
I love being together and watching the kids opening presents and seeing the surprise & excitement in their eyes
some of our fav traditions: putting up decorations n tree on Black Friday while playing Christmas music and wearing our green Irish Santa hats; moving the wisemen across the house, closer to the nativity as Christmas approaches, making Christmas Cookies, Santa’s ding n dash to drop off money/food, etc to a neighbor in need. So many morel.
My favorite thing is decorating the tree with my family. Everything on our tree represents something about Christ. I love telling them what each decoration represents and then having them help up them up on the tree.
My favorite thing is decorating the tree with my family. Everything on our tree represents something about Christ. I love telling them what each decoration represents and then having them help up them up on the tree.
While I would LOVE to win a kit, I know others would as well! 🙂
I am wondering if you have ever considered selling the book alone as you are sold out of the kits. I would love to have a guide – I would scour the stores for the items myself. Just a thought!
Sarah
kstheis at yahoo dot com
Will you be offering the 25 Days of Christ kit this year? I love it (and I want a kit :)!
Thank you!