Are you looking for some free Christmas activities? Are the holidays starting soon and you want to give the kids something constructive to do? Or are you a home-schooling family looking for some free resources that are a bit different? Do you want activities that tell the real story of Christmas? Here are two suggestions that I think are really good, also two short videos to watch. Plus one more activity, not the real meaning of Christmas, but simple and fun – making a Christmas tree to learn letters.
Print out a whole nativity set to colour, cut out and assemble. Eight pages to print – lots of animals, an angel, Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus … For those who have been following the Gilead videos, some of the reading will still be a bit hard. It will be a couple of months more before we will have covered all of the necessary sounds. Let your children read what they can and just tell them any words with sounds that they haven’t learned yet.
You will find the nativity set at http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/PDF/free-printable-nativity.pdf There is also an alternative version of Mary and baby Jesus that are separate so that baby Jesus can be put in the manger. You can find these at http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/PDF/Mary-and-Jesus-2.pdf
The Bible Society has a produced three short animated videos to tell the Christmas story. There are several sets of three activity sheets, for different age groups, based on each of these three videos. Great for home-school, Sunday School, kid’s clubs … http://www.biblesociety.org.au/discover-the-bible/for-kids/the-christmas-story-animations
A delightful video from the kids at St Paul’s, Auckland – An Unexpected Christmas – is just good fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1XusYVqNY
Plus another inspiring video showing the Christmas story told in sand at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSOrYtg66w
Here’s an activity for the younger children where you can make a Christmas tree from green card and use round stickers with letters written on them for ornaments. Remember how important it is to just say the most common sound for each letter. Only start using their names much later when children are really confident with the sounds. http://www.readingconfetti.com/2013/12/christmas-alphabet-sticker-tree.html
May the Lord bless you this Christmas as you remember the birth of the King of kings, born in a peasant family, in an obscure backwater of the Roman Empire, 2000+ years ago.
The graphic came from https://www.facebook.com/ChristmasNativityScenes 5th December, 2013.
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