One of my sisters’ and my favorite Christmas memories from growing up was pulling out the absolutely hideous nativity scenes we made when we were in Kindergarten (clearly at private Christian school!).  Amy’s Peanut-Baby-Jesus and my Construction-Paper-Cone Mary made it front and center of the “Kid Tree” each year.  Then when Lori’s Styrofoam-Cup Angel joined the gang, we had our tree-topper.  (No IDEA why my parents relegated all that goodness to a remote location while the “Family Tree” got Living Room status!)

I’m homeschooling the twins this year, but I didn’t want them to miss out on the humor of looking back on their 5 year old handiwork.  So this Christmas season, we’re building our own extended Nativity scene, a little bit each day.  We read part of the story every morning (2nd time through the whole thing, already); and then we build whatever we decide we want to work on.  And when we’re bored with it (or the paint’s still sticky and we can’t move forward till it’s dry), we stop.

Today was King Herod & his soldiers (mostly because the boys couldn’t wait to make spears).  Tomorrow?  Who knows.  But I’ll be sure to post the complete masterpiece when we’re done!

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TO BE CONTINUED…