Collect 25 colorful, Christmas, mismatched or baby socks. String a rope across the room, wall or fireplace. Fill each sock with a small treat, such as candy, notes or toys. Collect 25 wooden clothespins and number each one with a marker. Hang the socks in consecutive order on the clothesline with the clothespins. Tell your child that Jesus has a surprise for him each day in December. Each morning, your child will look forward to see what gift Jesus is giving him that day. Talk about the way Jesus sometimes gives us gifts we can touch, like in the Advent Calendar socks, and sometimes he gives us gifts we cannot touch, like our talents and our loving hearts.
Stuff a sock nearly all the way, tying a knot at the top for the tail. The heel of the sock is the top of the fish head. Cut off the edge of the sock's toe, roll the ends back and then glue them closed to make the fish lips. Fins can be cut from foam, card stock or paper and glued to the sock. Decorate the fins and sock with markers. Tell your child the miracle Jesus performed when he turned two fish into enough fish to feed thousands of people. Talk about how much Jesus loved the people and did not want them to be hungry.
Bring a Bible verse to life by having your children make sock puppets. Talk about a simple Bible story, like Jesus telling the children to come to him, and tell the children what kind of socks to make. One sock should be Jesus. Let the children decorate the socks with markers. Act out the story with the socks, showing Jesus' unconditional love for children.
Join several socks together by cutting off the feet of each one, with the exception of the two socks that will be on the ends. Join the tubes together and stuff them with pillow filler. Have your child decorate the draft catcher with images of God and Jesus with markers or fabric paint. Put it at the bottom of the door to keep any cold drafts from coming inside the house. Tell your child that Jesus loves us and protects us in a similar way by keeping evil away and keeping us warmly in his care.