Advent
Chain
Here's something that your clients, and their children, can have
fun doing. It's inexpensive, Earth-friendly, and it gets you and
your shop out there in the community for the holiday season! Hope
your customers enjoy this, with best wishes to you and your shop
from www.tgtbt.com
You need:
Construction
paper (red and green only, or assorted colors)
Zip-lock
baggies
Your
shop's business card
The
PDF of this Advent poem (1 copy for
every Advent Chain Gift you plan to give away. These are designed to
become a printed-front-and-back 4-"page" booklet.)
Directions: Cut 24 pieces of construction paper into 1-inch by
6-inch strips* (use red and green paper, or assorted) for 24 links
of an Advent chain. Package them in a baggie, along with the Advent
poem and your business card, and hand them out to all your customers
as a family project. If you want to make it really special, you can
add a glue stick, but to keep costs down to basically nothing, just
the poem and the strips make a wonderful gift!
Could a gift be any simpler?
If you have (or can borrow) a paper-cutter to create the strips,
these gifts can be assembled in a snap...
* They used to sell pre-gummed strips for paper
chains. If they still do in your area, use them, and you can
assemble hundreds of these in an evening!