Make your own Advent wreath to celebrate the Christmas season and keep your focus on Jesus!
Create an Advent Wreath to use at dinner. The Advent wreath is part of the liturgical countdown to Christmas. You can buy a ready-made Advent wreath or make it yourself. One way is to make a paper Advent wreath. Or here is how to make a traditional Advent wreath:
1. With green crafting wire, fasten live or plastic evergreen branches to a wire wreath circle.
2. After you attach the first branch, lay the second branch over the end of the first so it covers the stem.
3. Continue in this way until you reach where you began.
4. Tuck the ends of your final branches under the foliage of the beginning branches. This circle of evergreen branches reminds us of God without beginning and end, and of His faithfulness.
5. Set four candles in candleholders inside the wreath. Traditionally, the wreath holds three purple candles and one rose-colored candle.
6. Place the wreath in a central location in your home.
Light the Advent candles every day at dinner in this manner:
On Christmas day, celebrate Jesus’ birth by lighting the white candle in the center of the wreath.
Download Focus on the Family’s current Advent calendar below. Get Scripture readings and devotions.
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