To celebrate we are going to:
Make beeswax candles to decorate the house and our table.
The children are going to make and perform a shadow puppet show of the story of the presentation. The theatre is already finished - made from a cardboard box and baking parchment.To make the puppet figures we use free downloaded colouring pages as templates and trace on to card.
(This idea comes from the book The Year and our Children by Mary Newland Reed.)
http://www.sermons4kids.com/simeon_abda_colorpg.htm
http://www.sermons4kids.com/simeon-anna-colorpg.htm
http://www.calvary-kids-pages.com/cm60.html
http://frontpage.velocity.net/roaminka/EACH/colorpages/presentation.gif
Share a fondue meal with friends. I also plan to serve pretzels to represent the arms of Simeon and black olives to represent Anna , who was a widow. (If you want more ideas for food to serve at Candlemas try Alice's blog.)
Listen to some great music.
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