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Making a Christmas Pyramid Advent Calendar
One of the exciting and entertaining ways to count the days till Christmas is through the use of advent calendars. These calendars have new surprises in store each day as Christmas Day gets closer.
A Christmas Pyramid Calendar makes the countdown more thrilling, as better surprises, like embellishments and decoration for a Christmas tree can be revealed each day.
However, one of the most exciting ways to count the days till Christmas is to reveal new elements for a nativity scene each day, ending it on Christmas Eve with a tiny infant lying in a crib of hay.
Advents starts every fourth Sunday prior to Christmas Day and lasts for 21 days until Christmas Eve. In this case, you will need 21 square boxes with equal sizes each, decorated with Christmas paper, or painted silver or gold. To make it look impressive you can alternate gold and silver, or and green.
With the use of a sharp craft knife, take out the lids and rims from the three sides of each lid, leaving one rim intact. Coat a thin line of craft glue around rimless edges and dip in glitter. Set aside to dry.
Make a hole at the edge of the lid opposite the remaining rim – just right in the center – and jab through a gold colored split pin. Open the split pin from inside the lid so that it stays together. Do the same thing on the rest of the lids. Number each lid from 1 to 21 with the use of number sticks.
Secure the remaining rim of each lid to one side of each box with the use of craft glue or a glue gun. This is made to create a flap that opens. Give it time to dry thoroughly, after which you can start assembling your advent calendar.
Put boxes 1-6 nest to each other and make sure they are well-aligned with the lids at the front and split pin handles at the bottom. With the use of craft glue or a glue gun, glue each box next to each other so you have a foundation row of six boxes.
Glue together boxes 7-11 for the second row and put in on the first row like you were making a pyramid of blocks. Paste it in place. At this point, there should be half a box length of the bottom row and at each of the second row.
Next, glue together boxes 12-15 and create the fourth row with boxes 16-18. This shall be followed by boxes 19-20 for the fifth row and the last box – number 21 – on top. You should now be able to form a pyramid stacked with 21 boxes with flaps in front that open upward.
Place a Christmas tree ornament, a tiny gift, or a piece of nativity scene in each box. Box 21 should hold something special – a sparkling star for the Christmas tree, a decorated Christmas candle, or an infant for the crib.
Put your pyramid on a shelf or on the window. You can make the decorations more elaborate by covering the sides with glitters or putting Christmas ornaments in each step.
Advent Candles Lights Path to Christ
The candles that make up the advent wreath hold a special symbolism. In their color, their composition and just the sheer act of lighting the candle of advent wreath breaths a air of hope into each of the nights that make up the season of Advent.
Advent starts by counting backwards the four Sundays. This also is the beginning of the new liturgical calendar year for the church. The feast of Christ the King is the official start and usually runs as the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. As the church shifts into the season of Advent the colors of the church change and begin to reflect the season as does the tone and tenor as the church moves out of Ordinary Time and into a New Year.
The color purple becomes the overwhelming color and in the church the color purple is the color of repentance. And Advent as a season is a penitential season. But despite the reflection of Advent and its penitential nature, it also is a time to look forward to the coming of Christ. This included the coming of the infant Jesus as well as our wait for Jesus to return.
The first week of Advent the candles is named the Prophecy Candle. The first week of Advent focuses on the prophecies of the Old Testament that speaks of the Savior, Jesus. The Old Testament lays out our salvations The events of His Coming are Prophesized in Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6 and Micah 5:2-5. Symbolically the lighting of the first candle reminds us that there is light in the world after the sin of Adam plunged the world into darkness. Another way to put this would be a light in darkness.
The second week of Advents Candle, Purple in color, is called the Bethlehem Candle. This candles got its name because of the period of preparation for the coming of Jesus. Thematically preparation is the key. Just as John the Baptist prepared a way for Jesus, Mary Joseph also had a place prepared for them by God in Bethlehem so that the birth of Jesus was a fulfillment of the scripture that was previously prophesized, tying the event to actually the first Advent Candle lit. The prophecy of Bethlehems involvement in the birth of Jesus was prophesized in Micah 5:2-5, which names Bethlehem by name.
The third week of advent has the Shepherds Candle. This candle deviates from the 2 previous purple this one is rose colored to represent the joy of being half the way though the Advent Season. This candle received its name because of the Shepherds who came to find the tiny King and received great joy in coming to the Lord. Just as in present times when we find the Lord.
The final weeks of advent has the Angels Candle lighting the way. The Angel candle got its name because of because it was of course the angels that announced the birth of Christ. This candle also serves to remind us of Gods infinite love. And the gift of his only Son that he gave us.
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