A little time left before the arrival of winter, which means that the New Year is just around the corner. Many parents start together with children to prepare for this beloved literally all the holiday. In our life today, besides singing songs, telling poems about winter, decorating a Christmas tree and a house, there are other new traditions, many of which came from religious rituals. Now many parents are preparing for their kids the so-called advent-calendars.
They are also called "Calendars of expectation", "Christmas calendars". Making such calendars can become a good family tradition and they can be done for any family celebrations.What does the word "Advent" mean?
In Latin, the word "Advent" is "coming", "coming." This word Protestants and Catholics call the period of preparation for the feast of the Nativity of Christ. Although very many believers during this period are fasting, all the same, this period is pleasant and cheerful.
A little history of the "Advent Calendar"
As early as the 19th century, the Lutheran Germans first drew chalk on a wall with two chalks on the wall, which meant how many days left until Christmas, and wiped off one day each day. And they called it the Christmas calendar of expectation.
German Gerhard Lang was the first to publish a children's calendar. When he was young, his mother, wishing to brighten up the expectation of a holiday, attached a candy to the postcard. In 1908, his firm printed a calendar calendar with 24 colorful pictures, they were attached to a cardboard base.
The greatest popularity was won by calendars, in which small doors were invented, for them it was possible to hide delicacies or pictures from Holy Scripture. Before the printing house was closed, Lang invented 30 variants of Advent calendars having a different design. Popular Christmas calendars have become thanks to Rayard Zelmer. It was after the war that he adjusted their issue. In our country, you can make a calendar for the New Year, the number of cells usually make 31. You can make a wish for the Christmas Calendar, with the number of cells only 7, from 1 to 7 January.
Advent Calendar with your own hands - what to fill
If you have the imagination of doing a calendar waiting for the children can from anything. It can be tapes, buttons, cardboard, paper, socks, mittens, children's pails and much more. The most common filling of the Calendar of expectations are sweet surprises.
In addition, you can put a variety of small toys: cubes, for girls hair clips, dolls, for boys cars, figurines of little animals, all kinds of stickers, small designers. Very well, if there are present furniture toys, even paper, a child every day will take and hang a Christmas tree for one toy. Thanks to the stickers on the calendar, the child can replenish his collection.
Put in the calendar is possible:
- materials for modeling, drawing
- markers, for the development of small children in small children
- small books that you can read before going to bed.
You can also put in the window:
- riddles about christmas
- Christmas poems and songs
- daily routine
- photo or name of the dish that will be cooked in the baby.