Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Tradions
The Advent-Christmas Book

By Joan Marie Arbogast

A complete guide to the Advent-Christmas season for teachers and parents!

The Advent-Christmas season is one of the most celebrated and meaningful of the year, especially for children. The Advent-Christmas Book is the answer for teachers and parents who want to keep Christ in Christmas, create meaningful family traditions, and celebrate the season in classroom and home with handmade kid-friendly crafts, gifts, and recipes.

The Advent-Christmas Book offers teachers and parents:

• Directions for an easy-to-make Advent wreath for home or classroom
• Simple Advent wreath ceremony
• Easy-to-follow format by theme
• Read-together stories for each wee of Advent
• Community building activities for all ages
• 25 hands-on activities and hand-made gift ideas that are easy for students to complete on their own
• Family Take Home Pages and other reproducible pages for teachers
• Directions for celebrating a Baby Jesus Birthday Party at home or school
• Suggestions for beginning family Christmas customs and traditions
• 30 reproducible pages of puzzles and games
• Multi-cultural Christmas suggestions
• Ideas for celebrating the Feasts of the Christmas season
• Advent/Christmas reflections for parents and teachers

Joan Marie Arbogast has been involved in elementary education for almost 25 years. Her family activities and crafts, articles and poems have been published in a number of Catholic and Christian magazines. Joan writes a regular column, "Are You Bugged?" for My Friend: The Catholic Magazine for Kids.