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Light the World | 25 Days in 25 Ways

Each year as I prepare for the Christmas season and I plan my family’s December Activities, I am always searching for new ways to focus on the Savior and the true meaning of the season. Amidst all the fun, holiday-themed activities, I feel it is really important for my family to remember Jesus Christ and his story and how we can become more like him.

As I have been preparing for the holidays this year, I was so happy and excited to discover a wonderful campaign that my church has initiated,
light-the-world-logo-watermark-red-01I was thrilled to find so much ideas and inspiration about following our Savior, Jesus Christ in December. I also discovered many other sites that have built upon this idea and I am so excited that there are so many resources, starting with mormon.org and HERE!

 

“As we follow the example of the Savior and live as He lived and as He taught,
that light will burn within us and will light the way for others.”  

–President Thomas S. Monson


One of my family’s traditions each year is an activity advent calendar, where each day in December we do some kind of holiday activity. I love my beautiful shadowbox advent calendar that I purchased a few years ago and it’s always so fun to plan and add the activities to the boxes for my kids to discover! So after looking through all the different resources, I narrowed down the things that I wanted to do and began creating my own little cards to stick into my boxes. I mostly used ideas from Brightly Street.

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I decided that I wanted to share these cards with you so that you can use them too!  So what I have done is created 2.5 x 2.5 cards with each day’s theme, song, scriptures, video links, and activity idea. (I’ve also included blanks – so that you can add your own stuff). You can download the pdf and print them out and use them in whatever advent calendar you have! Personally, I will also be adding the regular holiday-themed activities that my family does to the back of the card, so we can do them as well as the #LIGHTtheWORLD activities.

#LIGHTtheWORLD

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I hope that you all will participate in this wonderful initiative and I really hope that you can use what I have created. Don’t forget to check out all the other resources that others have created! Find what works best for you and your family and serve! I know if we all participate, we can truly bless this world by serving those around us and fill our hearts with the peace that Jesus Christ can bring to each one of us.

#LIGHTtheWORLD



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About DeDe Smith

I'm a wife, a mom, a blogger, a lover of crafting, and a graphic designer. I believe in living life to the fullest, sharing your heart and talents to enrich the lives of others, and then telling your story to leave as a legacy for those that come after you.

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    Shannon says

    December 5, 2016 at 11:20 am

    Hi DeDe, I've always loved your designs. I have a "stained glass window" advent calendar with scripture readings and daily reflections, but it's getting a bit old and tattered. I've been looking for ideas for "alternate" advent calendars now that we have a daughter (she's turning 2 a week before Christmas - the best Christmas present ever after waiting over 10 years for her!). I absolutely love your activity calendar as it takes the scripture reading one step further. She's a little young to fully participate in some of them, but as long as she's observing my husband and I, we're teaching her by our actions. She's starting to understand the concept of prayer (and loves to say "Amen!") so she can always participate that way. I have a couple of nice advent calendars with little tin jars that I've saved and if I print and fold each square they'll fit nicely I think. It's not too late, and we can double up until we we catch up! Thank you again for your lovely designs. You're my "go to" for all my faith-related scrapbooking needs in particular. My first though is, "DeDe must have something for this, and if I don't already have it in my collection, I'm sure I can find it on her site!" Shannon (Ontario, Canada)
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      DeDe Smith says

      December 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

      Thank you so much for sharing Shannon! I am so happy that this is something that will help you and your family! Your comments are so sweet and made my day! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
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