Our Advent Branch

And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth...

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox...

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting place shall be glorious. from Isa. 11:1-10

So I saw a neat idea of using the days leading up to Christmas to teach a Bible lesson everyday, and make a little symbol to represent it to hang on a Jesse tree or branch. 

Today we made salt dough and molded little symbols and painted them. We hung the first couple and I told them the stories to go with them. They look forward expectantly to putting up the rest day by day.