Odds and Ends

This is a fun article about a mom trying to knit with a two year old who wants to help. http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/FEATearly.html (courtesy of Mindy)

About twenty years ago, I introduced my 4 or 5 year old daughter to a ball of yarn and a very LARGE crochet hook. Her three year old brother had to try everything she tried. She lost interest at the time, but I have a photo of one very intent little boy sitting in a large square vinyl chair with a ball of white yarn and a very large wooden crochet hook. (Don't tell him I told you this) We still have a VERY long chain of white yarn single crocheted that's long enough to wrap most of the way around a Christmas tree. (He was so into it and worked so hard on it that I couldn't throw it away!)

What does this have to do with emerging kids? Advent and Christmas are coming folks! Ideas?

[Don't know what the sermons will be yet]

1) We could do something related to whatever the Visual Art Guild cooks up tomorrow night.
2) We could do something related to a creche scene that the kids can play with and that we can add to and reuse each year. (It needs to have an empty crib so we can put the baby in at the end.)
3) We can do something to give away
4) Other ideas?

Keep your eyes on the newspapers. There are lots of different Christmas activities around town from live creches to Handel's Messiah to Christmas plays and concerts. The Craft Co-op on West Ridge Road is an interesting place! You might want to take kids...maybe not. Handmade stuff, old stuff, and books of course!