Christmas Around the World Day 3

November 28, 2007

LEBANON

  • In Lebanon, the children plant seeds (such as chickpeas, lentils or wheat grass) a couple weeks before Christmas so they have shoots around 6 inches long to use around their manger in their nativity scene. We used lentils to start our seeds.
  • And they use figures made of brown paper bagswe can do that! I used my one brown grocery bag to start our figures for our manger scene. I won’t give pictures yet… I’ll wait till we are finished :) – we have a manger from last year’s Christmas Eve service that is stored in our crawl space… that makes it our now, right? :) I think we’ll set it up on our front porch, and add the figures a couple at a time… should be interesting!!
  • On Christmas morning, they invite friends over and serve special drinks (coffee) with liqueurs and sugared almonds. Its just not a good day for this part of it… but tomorrow we are babysitting some friend’s children, so we’ll incorporate this then… probably not liquers :) We’ll stick with special hot chocolate. Do you think I’ll actually manage to get pics? We’ll see!

And just for fun, cause we can…

  • Today we read “Legend of the Candy Cane” while we drank hot chocolate and stirred it with candy canes :) My children LOVE me right now!!
  • We checked out this art by Gustave Dore – here is a link for the whole Bible and complete illustrations.

Entry Filed under: Homeschool and Kids. .

4 Comments Add your own

  • 1. javamamma  |  November 28, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Sounds like so much fun!

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  • 2. EEEEMommy  |  November 28, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Okay, I’m totally going to copy off of you! :) And great job not being compulsive about having to do everything and just enjoying yourself with your kids. My kids would love you too!

    Reply
  • 3. Rachelle  |  November 28, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Your homeschool always sounds like so much fun!

    Reply
  • 4. Christmas Around The World  |  January 1, 2008 at 12:19 pm

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