Each year, we begin decorating our home on November 15, as we begin the 40 day fast for Christmas. It's beneficial for all to begin seeing the transformation around us and within us.
Here are the 40 days in icons. We're aiming to cut them out, and create an ornament for each day until Christmas. If you follow the old calendar, I can post January as well.
Enhance this activity by chanting the troparion for each day, or paste a short story from the Saints' life on the backside of each ornament.
At this link, many Orthodox ornaments are sold, and you can get a few ideas:
http://www.easterngiftshop.com/Category/CO
Paste each icon in the center of a star or snowflake if you wish!
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After you're finished, that's forty ornaments! Plenty to fill a tree!
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