{"id":133,"date":"2011-11-28T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-11-28T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T04:33:06","slug":"advent-workshop-2011-the-advent-wreath-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Advent Workshop 2011 – The Advent Wreath (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[See “Advent Workshop 2011 – The Advent Wreath (Part 1)”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for the backstory on this project.]<\/p>\n

Our Advent Workshop is about 48 hours away, and I have been over at the church tonight setting out materials and considering flow. I never get it quite right, but I do hope I might be avoiding SOME of the train wrecks.)<\/p>\n

I purposely did not finish the sample wreath shown at left, but I did want to suggest some ideas. The fun will be to see how they might finish their own.* (The fourth candle, Advent 1, is hidden in this photograph. My apologies…)<\/p>\n

I sketched everything out on paper and decided on five tables, so that the children can start in any area and then assemble the wreath at the end:<\/p>\n

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Pick up a tray and five wooden "candles" ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Select a ring and put your name and the date on the bottom with a silver sharpie...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Decorate the white candle with paper or ribbon...<\/p><\/div>\n

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The rose candle ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Sarum blue candles ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Evergreen for the wreath - felt or construction paper ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Velcro the lights to the wooden candles...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pick up an Advent Wreath booklet and an Advent poster...<\/p><\/div>\n

The final stop will be to glue the four Advent candles to the wreath, and I didn’t take a picture of the glue bottle. We found the “Slow down. Quiet. It’s Advent!” posters here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*Not that anyone is really interested in my decorating, but I think when the event is over, I will quietly use beeswax polish on the bare wood of “my” advent wreath candles and make felt leaves. I will probably use the ribbon around the tea light as shown on the rose candle in the prototype for all five candles…unless a child comes up with a better idea, and then I might use that!<\/p>\n

O come, Emmanuel!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[See “Advent Workshop 2011 – The Advent Wreath (Part 1)”\u00c2\u00a0for the backstory on this project.] Our Advent Workshop is about 48 hours away, and I have been over at the church tonight setting out materials and considering flow. I never … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-parish-traditions","category-seasons-of-the-church-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}