Sweets & Treats with Six Sisters' Stuff - Giveaway

I love fresh, homemade sweet treats and I love to make them, but I hate it when I find a recipe that looks delicious and then read the ingredients and realize that I will need to go on a huge shopping hunt before I can even begin to make it!  So I was pretty excited when I found out that the ladies behind the blog Six Sisters' Stuff just published a cookbook filled with sweet recipes that don't require fancy techniques or crazy ingredients.  Perfect!  It's called Sweets & Treats with Six Sisters' Stuff and it's published by Shadow Mountain.

The first recipe that I tried was No-Bake Cookies.  I've had no-bake cookies before, but I had never tried them like this.  The recipe included peanut butter and I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I ate so many that I had to make another batch- and I got over 2 dozen of these per batch!  I made them and froze them (thinking they'd come in handy later), but I soon found out how delicious they were frozen and it was game over! ;)

Day 9 - Nativity Game

When I was little I used to like to "act out" the nativity with the little characters in our manger scene. I remember learning that the wise men didn't come right away (they had to travel far!) and bringing the different characters in one-by-one. :)  Now my kids like to do this with our little kids' nativity :) Today's activity is a really fun one for kids- it involves making a nativity and a game that the whole family can play over the next few days!

This post is part of a series of 12 advent activities. You can find more details here.

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Includes:
- A Scripture
- A Discussion Topic
- An Activity: a printable nativity and a fun game idea to play over the next few days, throughout your house.  Slowly bring the wise men closer to the nativity with this fun game (details in the PDF linked above! :)


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Advent Day 8 - Candy Cane Symbolism

One of the comparisons made in the scriptures is of Jesus to a shepherd.  I really like that imagery, of a shepherd who cares for his sheep and the idea that Jesus takes care of us in a similar way. A candy cane is similar to the staff of a shepherd, but that's not the only thing that a candy cane can represent!

This post is part of a series of 12 advent activities. You can find more details here.

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Includes:
- A Scripture
- A Discussion Topic
- An Activity: a cute printable that talks about different things that a candy cane symbolizes, and a fun way to show them to your family.


If you'd like to see the other days, I will link to them from this post as they go up!

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Advent Day 7 - Link to God (Paper Chain)

Jesus is called by many different names in the scriptures. To help our girls to learn them, it has become a tradition for us to put up our "Names of Christ" ornaments on our tree by stopping to read the scripture that goes with each and then having one of the girls find the matching ornament to the name of Christ that is mentioned.  Today's advent focuses on the different names of Christ (but you don't need to buy ornaments ;)  and how those different names can help us to understand the different roles that Christ has.

This post is part of a series of 12 advent activities. You can find more details here.

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Includes:
- A Scripture
- A Discussion Topic
- An Activity: a printable paper chain craft (has different names of Christ on each link). You can have your family write their own name on one to symbolize that Jesus is their link to God.  (details in the PDF linked above)


If you'd like to see the other days, I will link to them from this post as they go up!

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Advent Day 6 - Picture A Savior - Memory Game

If your kids are pretty young or new to learning the story of Christmas, you can make it really fun by playing a game to help remember some of the things in the story! Of course, even if you know the story well, a game of Memory is a lot of fun and gets everyone thinking about the story of Christmas.

This post is part of a series of 12 advent activities. You can find more details here.

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Includes:
- A Scripture
- A Discussion Topic
- An Activity: a printable memory game with pictures of the characters in the story of Jesus' birth. Also included: A 5x7 printable image (like the one on the back of the memory cards)


If you'd like to see the other days, I will link to them from this post as they go up!

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Acrylic Block Photo Giveaway!

I absolutely love photographs and the way they can capture moments and memories.  They are so personal and everyone, no matter their interests, will love a photo of something. Because I have a particular interest in photography, I get excited when I discover new ways to print photos.  How cool are these new Acrylic Block prints from Posterjack.ca?!  I ordered one of our recent family photos to put on my desk and it makes me SO happy! :)

I'm not here today just to show mine off, though!  I want to show you how it came packaged and then I want to give one away to one of you, so don't miss the giveaway at the end of this post!