Day 12: Truth in the Tinsel Advent Experience

On Day 12 we did a cute 'I spy jar' relating to the census where Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem to be counted.  I thought it was a really excellent connection between subject and craft the rice grains being the many people and Mary and Joseph being amongst them.  Ours turned out rather hilarious but fun none the less :)

Their treats were Woolies eggs.  Andy got the dinosaur egg which to his delight contained the skeleton of a T-rex's skull and a small packet of sweeties and Jane got a Hello Kitty one with a hair clip and sweeties inside :) 

Jane asking for hers to be opened...

 

Andy coloring the rice in a bag with gel food coloring and a bit of hand sterilizer cause we didn't have rubbing alcohol, which I thought was an excellent tip given in the book.

Feeling the rice before setting it down to dry...

In the mean time Andy took all our pipe cleaners out of our craft box and made rings out of them then using the lid of the craft box he went around selling his wares...

I of course bought some because who could resist such beautiful jewelry...

Our supplies for Mary and Joseph were rather unusual.  I of course couldn't find the permanent marker when I need it so we opted for thin black tape.  For the heads we used a bunch of plastic balloons from the cake shop.

We cut pieces of tape for the faces... told you ours came out hilarious...

Our i spy container on the tree...