12th December, 2007
The “Low Maintenance” Jesse Tree
After reading about Rocks in My Dryer’s Jesse Tree a few weeks ago, I confess I’ve been salivating at all the neat ornaments she found and how nice her tree looks! After convincing showing my sweet husband, he too liked the idea and wanted to incoporate it as part of our Christmas traditions. We do Advent readings throughout the month, but love the idea of adding in visual reminders of God’s mercy and kindness in sending His Son.
Since I don’t have the mini tree and ornaments yet, we decided to do the paper ones the kiddos color (found here).
OK. So here’s the actual ”idea” part of my post. The one that’s supposed to qualify for Works for Me Wednesday over at Rocks in My Dryer. It’s not real novel, but it worked for us.
On our bulletin board, I stapled green yarn in the form of a Christmas tree (actually I did two so each of my girls could do their own “ornaments” and put them on their own “tree”). Then they just staple each ornament on their Jesse Tree for the appropriate day. It’s clean, neat, simple, and merries up the school room too!
Now. I know this is about as “basic” and “no brainer” as you can get. But. Since the alternative would mean gathering up branches from the backyard, supergluing them together to make the spindly masterpiece, punching a small hole in each paper ornament, hanging them gingerly on the Peanuts inspired tree and then watching my 2 year old disassemble it faster than you can say “death wish”, I didn’t think it was such a bad idea.
So there you have it.
I promise that next Wednesday I’ll have an idea that involves more brain cells. At least I promise to try.
Forget the promise. I’ll just have an idea, OK?
Posted at 7:55 am | Comments (3)
On December 12, 2007 at 10:46 pm TC said:
December 12, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I think your idea is awesome! I’m all about low-maintenance. My kids are too old for a Jesse tree, but if I were to do one, I think I’d give them a green construction paper triangle for the tree and a sheet of unused 37-cent stamps to stick on for ornaments.
I’m the Anti-Crafter.
On December 13, 2007 at 3:14 pm Melissa said:
December 13, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I think that’s a fabulous idea!!
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