Beginning of Advent

Now that our advent boxes have been out on display for the last week, Silas has been rather impatient to start opening them.  (I wanted to encourage anticipation right?!)  Each day, "Can we open the boxes now?"  

He's been carefully touching, looking and peaking at the boxes and has been good about not opening them..

Today is the day! Box #1.

I'm so glad that its contents arrived in time via post [yay ebay].  Loving our selection of nativity scenes.  

He's been playing with it for awhile now!

My favourite: he loves hiding baby Jesus in the advent box.  And then he said "but baby Jesus is cold!" and "how do we make sure the animals don't eat him?"  So far I'm not sure baby Jesus has been in the actual manger. I'm excited to see what happens when we 'hide' the wise men far away tonight and each day watch as Silas has to 'find' how far the wise men have moved towards baby Jesus.

  

 What a great teaching tool for this age!