Advent Calendars
An Advent Calendar is a popular way of counting down the days to Christmas. Nowadays, many Advent Calendars are filled with chocolate, and are decorated with popular cartoon characters, but traditionally they have a picture of a nativity scene, and each window opens to reveal a small image that has something to do with the story of the first Christmas.
Here is a link to the Woodlands Junior School’s Advent Calendar. By visiting this calendar each day, you will learn more about Christmas around the world.
There is also an interactive Advent Calendar aimed at younger pupils – perhaps you have a younger brother or sister who would enjoy playing the games on this calendar?
Finally, you could visit the Culham Institute’s 2007 Advent Calendar (I can’t seem to find a 2008 one yet – perhaps someone could help me out?) When you click on the day, you find out more about St Nicholas, as well as revealing part of an icon of that saint. There is then a link to an Advent activity.
You can find many more Advent resources on the REEP Advent Resources page.
An historical Advent calendar can be found at the Geffrye Museum.
Have fun – and happy Advent!
(The photo above was taken from the Calendars for Christmas website.)
Matthew said,
9 December, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Hello,
Thanks for the interest in our advent calendars. This year’s advent feature (not strictly a calendar) is online at:
http://www.reep.org/resources/advent/2008/
This year our Advent feature takes us back to medieval England where Sir Geoffrey Luttrell invites us to solve a series of riddles as part of the jollity of his Christmas feast. Sir Geoffrey, who lived in Lincoln, commissioned one of the most famous Psalters, which can now be found in the British Library. Our modern commission of illustrations from Beatrice Watson is in the style the Psalter but with new features and we have included plenty of weblinks and background if you want to find out more about the original.
Regards,
Matthew
REEP webmaster
PS. There seems to be a glitch in the link to the REEP Advent Resources page in the article – it shoudl point to: http://www.reep.org/resources/advent/ but there seem to be some extra characters at the end.