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This Christmas season our family is adding in art lessons from See the Light’s Gift of Love DVD as part of our special Christmas projects. This DVD has 143 minutes of Christmas content sure to focus your heart and mind on Christ this season. We started early so you could see some of what is offered on this DVD!
We watched the story of Jesus’ birth with chalk art and then decided to do the lesson on creating our own manger scene with colored pencils because we all wanted to do the black light reveal! We had purchased the DELUXE Gift set (which I’m giving away today!) so we could get the black light and special extreme colored pencils and chalks. We had everything else on hand. (see a complete list of supplies needed here)
I am always, always amazed by what my children end up drawing following See the Light’s instruction. I watched this lesson with skepticism as to how well this was going to turn out. This wasn’t some lesson on drawing stick figures, this was real art and I really wasn’t sure they could do it. Boy, was I surprised!
First of all, I have to share with you what my preschoolers produced:
The top one is from my newly turned 3 year old and the bottom one is from my 4 year old! Yep, mom is impressed!
We took our time with this lesson, pausing it as needed so everyone could catch up and see what was on the screen. My job was to keep the colored pencils sharpened. 😉
Here are the children proudly displaying their final products:
And a few close-ups to show you what kind of art your child will be producing:
And finally, the moment we had all been waiting for…
The black light reveal!
I wish I had better photos of this, but it was incredible! We all crowded in our windowless bathroom and turned on the black light and spent a long time oohing and aahing over the children’s beautiful drawings. What fun!
I would recommend if you own the Art Class DVD’s (our favorite homeschool art curriculum, by the way), that you to do a quick refresher course of Disc 2 before doing this DVD, but it isn’t necessary.
Becky says
Wow! your kids did a great job. How fun this would be.
Laura says
I have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old and haven’t done crafts in the past but I’m looking forward to doing so this year!
Naomi says
This year one of our projects has been jar mixes for family and friends but ex wanted to have a message with them so we put a scripture verse on each label.
Lacy says
My daughter would absolutely love working through this art book this Christmas season! I jut might join in the fun as well!
Shannon Hudson says
I’ve never seen these before – the kids would love it! Thank you so much for introducing us to it! 🙂
Jennifer says
Art is such a great medium for teaching other stuff but I forget to teach it as a subject.
Barb says
Crafts in December have become a tradition. Our children do crafts of differentiating degrees for Christmas gifts. They may be simple or complex for friends, neighbors, relatives, Sunday School teachers, our pastor, or our immediate family. They also like to do artwork to display around our home. Craft supplies are kept busy at our home in December.
Pat Woy says
Other than ginger bread houses with graham crackers and butter cream icing we don’t do many Christmad crafts. This would be a great project too!
Lisa says
We did Truth in the Tinsel crafts last year, and really enjoyed them. This year we will do a few that we skipped last year. With a big age range with my kids (11, 7, 5, 3, 2, baby) it can be tricky finding things that keep everyone engaged. See the Light sounds like it may be a solution. Thanks!
Michele says
Their drawings are so lovely!!!
Dana says
Excited, this is so neat! I just just littles (5 and 2) and we love art projects!
Rebekah says
We normally do a couple of projects, but not much. This looks neat! Thank you.
Patty says
I do special Christmas art!
Becki Clouse says
Looks Fun!
Sharon says
Wow! Your kids look like they had a ball. This would be a fun project to try. I have kids similar ages to yours. I think the black light part is cool too!
Allentown says
What an amazing way to spend time with my children and enjoy the Christmas Season! I am definitely purchasing! Thank you for sharing!
Leah says
I always plan to, but depending on how old the littlest baby is, we may only do coloring pages or a countdown chain 😉
Mom of 4 says
We love doing crafts around Christmas time! 🙂
deborah says
I wouldn’t say we really do special crafts during the Christmas season. Just gift wrapping or whatever else we just decide to do. Nothing especially planned for the most part! My kiddos like to draw anytime! 🙂
Ginnie says
Every day before Christmas starting on Dec 1 st the kids and I make one craft or candy and decorate the house.. By the time Christmas Eve arrives the house is decorated:-)
Vanessa says
I am still learning about the different homeschool resources. This one looks fun for everyone.
natalie r says
Love this idea!!!
Loretta says
We often attempt Christmas ornaments every year, cookie-style, painted balls, etc.
Renee S. says
This is the first time I’ve seen a dvd that teaches art, and I love that it’s the Christmas Story. Very curious how my kids would do with it!
Jennifer Rooney says
Unfortunately art is very lacking in my homeschool. My daughter would love this !!
Teresa Locklear says
We try to do lots of arts and crafts, but we have not yet tried chalks. I’m loving what you and your family are doing and really want to try them. Your kids have done a fantastic job!
Jasmine says
Looks like a fun giveaway!
Tiffani says
This looks like so much fun!
Susan Alexander says
Wow, that is awesome! I haven’t really done a lot of special crafts/etc in the past, mostly just baking cookies, but this year, with my oldest being “officially school-aged” (she’s 5), I’m finally motivated to start doing these little projects. I LOVE this and would love to win!
Laura says
Looks like something my 6 year old would love!
Rachel~ At the Butterfly Ball says
I try to do special Christmas crafts with my children every year. Like you we have a very wide span of ages, (6 between ages 16 and 8 days old!) so doing things that everyone can participate in is always a great find!
Darcy says
Yes, we do some crafts during the Christmas season. They are different every year.
Michele P says
Now that my kids are a little older, we do not do as many art projects at Christmas, but I do have one little booklet to make called Thumbbody Special to do with the 6 year old that the olders did when they were young. It is the story of Jesus, but uses thumb prints for all the faces and animals. Very cute!
tammy cordery says
we do a lot of crafts at Christmas time. It is a great holiday to read the bible and do crafts along side it.
Becky says
This looks so neat ~ we’d love to use this for our family!
jen says
I love music and ART!! Thanks for the nice giveaway and I just want to say that I love your site! Merry Christmas to all! Jen
Aimee M says
Looks like a fun Christmas project!
Deborah Cook says
Oh the grandbabies would love this
Anna says
What a great product, we would love to try it!
Lisa says
Looks so awesome! Thanks for the chance to win! Lisa 🙂
Krista says
We usually do some little crafts, like paper chains and the like. I have boys ages 6 & 3. The older has fine motor issues and the younger is special needs in many areas, so it’s a challenge finding crafts they can/want to do. This set might help encourage my oldest to do something he doesn’t normally like to do just for the cool effect at the end.
Trisha says
We love to do crafts in December! My little girl loves to make decorations for Christmas.
Suanna says
We do special Christmas Projects. this year we are making all our gifts. Everyone is excited.
Becky B says
We like to make chains, and ornaments.
Becky
Nicole says
We don’t really do a lot of crafts at all but my boys love to draw.
Heather Brandt says
I do crafts some with the kids but I admit it is not something I enjoy doing (as much as I’d like to). I hope this would get me more motivated!
Jennifer says
What a fun art project for the kids!
Cheri says
This looks like a great set. We do some crafts during the Christmas season. We mainly work on baked goods to give to others. The past couple of years, we made dozens of cinnamon rolls to deliver warm Christmas morning.
Heather Brandt says
I cannot get the discount code to work. Please help :/
Rebecca L. says
I cannot get it to work either….any help would be great!! I am at checkout and will checkout when the code gets straightened out. 🙂
Amy says
Here is what I found out, Rebecca – hope this solves your problem! 🙂
Most of those who have trouble can be solved by using the following procedure:
The code is valid. They should follow the following procedure. When you go to your cart, over on the right side is information that must be put in under “SHIPPING/TAX”. Fill out the country, State, and Zip. Then (this is the key) hit “Get a Quote”. Once you do that you will see a normal shipping amount. After (and only after) you do that, then put in the code and hit “Apply Coupon”.
These instructions were supposed to have been put on our website, but out tech guy didn’t get it done.
For most this works fine. We have had others that it didn’t work because they didn’t put over $50 in their cart.
The STL code works only in the United States. For Canada, we can supply a different code that will work.
Melinda J. says
I LOVE the blacklight idea! Those pencils look totally awesome!! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Cathi Updike says
I used to do a lot of crafts with my children. Now they are growing up and graduated! And I miss it! My youngest son – 14 – is very interested in drawing and this would help him a lot!
Terri White says
How wonderful! Thank you for offering this!
Cindy says
We do special things for Christmas, sure! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? 😉
kathy lapan says
We don’t usually do many crafts, because my kids are’t interested. But I think something with a cool blacklight effect would be awesome!
Stephanie says
This would be such a blessing to our little homeschool family. 🙂
Alannah Linton says
I try to do at least one craft. But December is a busy month and if I don’t plan well enough the crafts are over looked.
Sara M says
Normally we don’t do much of anything because I am art-challenged. However, with this DVD maybe my children could actually experience an Artsty Christmas. My oldest daughter loves to do art stuff, but I can’t help her with much because I just can’t draw well.
Kelly says
I had no idea this product exists. How exciting!
Allison says
I think my 7 yr old would love this program.
Arline Erven says
This looks wonderful! Our family would enjoy doing this, especially my husband. 🙂 He’s much more artistic than me.
Sara P says
We love art & crafts. We usually make our Christmas decorations. One year, we didn’t have money for a tree and we actually cut a tree out of butcher paper, hung it on the wall and made ornaments out of construction paper each day. It was a lot of fun to see that tree fill up.
Cecilia says
We usually do a little, but I’d like to do more.
Diana says
I’d love to win this!
Jessica says
This is fantastic! I have a little guy who’s got some super talent, I can imagine what he could produce with a little help. Love it!
Darlene says
Would love to win this! What a witnessing tool!
joanie elbourn says
Looks like fun !
noel says
We are planning on doing special crafts for decorating and gift giving this Christmas.
Becky M says
We make a new ornament each year & bake cookies. I would really like to try something new this year.
Wendy massey says
Oh, how I’d love this for my boys!!
Lisa says
Love this company!
Sherry says
I’ve been wondering how this program worked, and if the black light thing really did anything….I’m impressed also! Love how you had all the kids involved and they each did such a fine job! Yeah, little arrows! Good work!
Kadonna says
The kids like drawing and painting year-round. Thank you for the chance to win!
Naomi Schepperley says
I usually try to do some extra crafts/projects during this season. My four little ones really enjoy them!
Charissa R. says
Yes. We do tons of homemade Christmas projects and lots of baking. 🙂
zekesmom10 says
We try to do several special projects throughout the year, but especially at this time of year. Grandparents are not nearby, so the boys send them things in the mail to let them know we are thinking of them.
Laura W says
I love to take school easy during December and do crafts. We’ve been gathering pine cones, and I bought some small needlepoint ornaments to introduce my oldest 3 to needlepoint.
Chandar says
I would love this for my kids, amazing gift!
Karen says
I want to do more art with my kids and they want to do more art. I have a hard time getting out the supplies and I think something like this and scheduling it will help.
Rhoda says
If we have time I try to do some special things. Mostly we concentrate more on the decorating the house, baking special treats for the neighbors, and then delivering them. My kiddos love to spend their free time drawing, so they manage to find time!
Britta Kreps says
Our crafting/projects around Christmas usually consist of making decorations for our home. The kids love to get creative with homemade snowflakes and what not. The “See the Light” dvd for Christmas would kick our artwork up a serious notch and my kiddos would love it.
R G says
To be honest, I always have good intentions, but rarely do half of my ‘plan.’
Emily says
We do all sorts of crafts for the holidays, most of them simple crafts, like making lots and lots of paper snowflakes.
Tanya Luscombe says
We love to cut and make snowflakes together! Even 3D looking snowflakes. 🙂
Your art drawings are very good!!!
Michelle W. says
We usually do something Christmasy but I haven’t decided what we’ll do this year yet. I found a neat idea…but I’ll have to figure out how to do it sans black canvas and paints.
Amber says
I try to but it does not always work out. One of my middles loves art and I just not super artistic. She would love love love something like this!
Cyndi says
This looks wonderful!!! I purchased “See the Light” for this years homeschool art and the children really like it. I’m sure this will be great also. Thanks for your offer!!!
Judy says
We try to but as the kids are getting older we are getting busier but I do try.
Dawn Schneider says
My kids would love this. They love to draw.
Sarah Kosbob says
This set looks amazing! Hard to say if it would be kept at home or given as a gift!
Michelle says
I’m not that great at artsy/crafty stuff, but somehow my kids all 3 seem to just love doing crafts. I usually stick with the easy (coloring, glue, pipecleaners) They would love this set!
Joy Egbert says
This looks great! We have ordered the Cartooning DVD and are enjoying it. We do enjoy crafts and art projects and this looks like it would be a great addition!
Amy says
I keep a box going for each holiday that I fill with the supplies and ideas for crafts we’d like to do. That way I’m not searching while they’re waiting.
Erika S says
We haven’t done to many special projects in the past for Christmas but it is something I really want to start doing regularly.
nancy says
we are just starting all that stuff 🙂
Rebecca says
I always want to do special arts and crafts but either get bogged down with other stuff or don’t have ideas of what to do.
This would be wonderful for my kids to do!
Cheryl says
Great set!
Chari granger says
So cool!! Love the black light effect. We love doing Christmas crafts w our 7, 4 and 2 two yr olds.
Cheryl P says
This looks neat!
Mary says
How neat! The kiddos did a great job!
Sarah Marie says
We LOVE to do art projects during the Christmas Season! We especially love to make Christmas gifts!
Frances says
Beautiful! Would love to try this for Christmas!!
kelly says
yup lots of crafts here. 25 days of christmas countdown, sometimes its just a christmas book or hot cocoa, but we also have some crafts.
Gina says
This looks so COOL! I know my 9yo artist-in-the-making would love this! He’s always asking to do crafty/artsy things, and the black light definitely adds to the awesomeness! Thanks for sharing!
Karen Miller says
No matter how old your children are, working as a family on crafts is always a great activity!
Dacia says
See the Lights products have interested me for quite some time! I hope that I win this set.
Angela says
We are new homeschooling family and I know we would greatly benefit and enjoy giving this a whirl. Thank you for hosting this giveaway. Love following you!
Lisa W. says
We do a lot of baking. Some years are more craft-heavy than others. I usually try to stow away ornament kits and craft supplies when they go on clearance, so that we can pull them out on “we’re bored” days. 😉
Rachel Poe says
Yes! We do crafts/Art projects almost daily during the Christmas/Advent season. Cooking, baking, painting, weaving, drawing, and more!
Michele hall says
This looks amazing…
Heather Klotz says
This looks like so much fun. I would love to win!
Sherri S says
We do special art projects and send them in cards to nursing homes and widows we know. Other than that, we don’t do too much, but I’d love to have some formal art training for them!
Laura S. says
I enter every single one of these giveaways – they look like so much fun! Here’s hoping!!!
Laura S. says
Oops! Didn’t answer the question!! We do a Jesse tree each year and the kids color or draw a picture to go with the bible story each night. Other than that, it’s whatever craft catches my eye on Pinterest. 😉
Laura says
We sometimes do a few simple crafts. I would love to do more, especially ones that instill the true meaning of the season!
Jenn says
We love art!
Candace says
Thanks for the giveaway! We love Art Class here!
Candace says
Oops, commented before reading the instructions 🙂 We love baking, but anytime of the year!
Arletta Gehrke says
We would love to win this. We have done different art projects over the years. Making ornamets, stockings, paper chains (when Daddy was deployed overseas). to just drawing simple pictures of what we think Christmas is really about. It is always lots of fun with all my kiddos!
Elizabeth says
Lots of family time snuggling, cooking and enjoying good food.
lynne says
looks neat, anxious to try it.
Julie J says
What a neat set! Looking forward to finding ways to focus my family on Christ this season.
Tammy says
I try to do some art, but I have a hard time working it all in. I love your kids’ drawings. They turned out great!
S.T. says
I would love to have this! My 8 year old (only girl) loves to do crafty things. I don’t know how to draw well. I would love for them to have this instruction. The oldest two were able to be apart of homeschool, art classes this summer, and I was amazed at what they produced!
Thank you!
Melissa says
So fun! It’s always so helpful to see what resources others have discovered along the way. Thanks for sharing!
Melissa says
As for projects right now…putting up the tree and stockings is enough. My oldest is 8, though, and desperate to add more art to our repertoire for the season. She made “presents” for everyone today…
Vickie says
We have usually done cookies and baked treats. Not always doing crafts but we do some.
Pam B says
we have made ornaments as a craft & would love to win 🙂
Carma says
My children would be thrilled if we did arts & crafts together during Christmas. I need to make it a priority.
Loura says
We have done a few Christmas crafts and projects in the past but not as much as I would like to. This set looks wonderful!
Pam says
Looks like a lot of fun! It would be great to try it as our kiddos LOVE to draw!
jan says
Very cool! All 4 of mine would enjoy this, but especially my 10 year old!