Advent Festival

One of the things I REALLY enjoy doing at my church is working at the Advent Festival each year. I especially like working with 4th - 7th graders. You get to go and sit at a craft table and help the kids make the craft for that table. This year the craft at my table was making a wallet out of a juice carton (not a juice box). It can be done. They were pretty cool looking and the kids had the most fun decorating their "wallet" with the different colors of duct tape. Here was the first group that came and sat down at my table. There are probably 20-30 different crafts people at the church can come and work on. The crafts are "rated" for different age groups - with extremely easy ones for little children and some rather hard ones for adults/older teens. Down in the atrium a combo plays (piano, drums, violin/fiddle) Christmas music and cookies and punch/coffee is served. They sell t-shirts/hoodies and the church is all decorated. I just love it. Working with the crafts and the kids reminds me of when I was a Girl Scout leader (with my friend Kay) for Kaitlyn's troop and all the fun we had.