Fall Impressions

At Impress Your Kids, they are doing Fall Impressions each Wednesday. This is an awesome blog about impressing your children with God's Word. This month is a fall/harvest theme, but our craft this week does not look like it belongs.

Several years ago we started to make shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Our boxes are due on Sunday, so we started working on them this week. In the past, we talked with Caleb about the importance of giving the gifts to children in need, but I am not sure how much of it sunk in. This year, in an effort to impress the true meaning into Caleb's heart, we added special crafts.

Caleb helped us shop for the gifts and also helped me stuff the boxes.

In addition, he decorated the tops with foam Christmas stickers.

Inside we are putting a picture of the Nativity that Caleb colored and glittered.

As a family, we will pray for the children that will receive our boxes. For the first time this year, I am going to include a picture of our family with our address. I pray that one of the children will be able to write to us so that Caleb may fully understand the meaning of giving. This is such great way to teach your children, that even at their age, they can still share the good news of Jesus Christ!