This weekend, January 6th, is the celebration of Epiphany. For a long time, I didn’t understand this holiday very well. I have just more recently begun to appreciate it. Imagine celebrating the revealing of Jesus’ devine nature to the gentiles…that’s me. It is just beautiful! The fact that God would reveal his plan to all the [...] Read more »
Shepherd Sunday
Ideas for Christmas Sunday Interactive Puppet Show: Everyone gets to dress up as shepherds or angels. They act surprised/joyous when the head angel is speaking. Christmas Necklace Craft: Easy Christmas necklace with Jesus candy cane and love hearts. (Oriental Trade) Shepherd-Campfire Treat: Baked some-mores. 1 layer of single graham crackers. 2 sections of Hershey chocolate bars, [...] Read more »
Advent Good Works Chain
We are doing something that is super fun for the kids and the parents love it too! The Good Works Chain for Advent is a traditional paper chain with a twist. -The kids have to earn the links. It will be fun to see how many links they can collectively acquire. I plan to string [...] Read more »
Prepare Your Family’s Hearts for Christmas
Tis’ the Season to Prepare for the advent of Christ’s birth. Advent starts November 27th this year. It is time to order the Jesse Tree Advent Devotional and Lapbook kit. This is a super fun way to prepare your families’ hearts for Christmas. What does it look like in our house: We add Christmas lights [...] Read more »
Christmas 5: The Temple
Anna and Simeon’s Prophesy at the Temple Bible: Luke 2:22-38 Lesson: Do you remember when God had Moses write down some rules. Those rules helped the Israelites stay close to God. Joseph and Mary needed to take baby Jesus to the Temple to be dedicated and Mary cleaned. They offered a sacrifice to God. (a [...] Read more »
Christmas 4: The Nativity
Christmas is Jesus’ Birthday Bible: Luke 2:1-20 Lesson: –Read the Luke 2:1-20 from the Bible.– It will be a passage they have most certainly heard before, so they should under stand it. You may still wan to act it out with a nativity scene. If they are still confused try using the Nativity Story I [...] Read more »
Shepherd’s Night Party
Christ-Centered Christmas Fun! Shepherd’s Night For five or so years my family and I have been celebrating Shepherd’s Night at our church. It started off at our house (with a fire in the fire place) and as the multitude of angels grew, we moved to our church. It is great Christ-centered Christmas fun! We dress [...] Read more »
Nativity Diorama
Nativity Diorama Craft Directions: Print out Nativity Diorama Left Side, Nativity Diorama Right Side, and Baby Jesus Diorama. The easiest way to mass produce this diorama is to make one as a template, cut to top 1 inch off all of them, and place dots where you need to cut and fold before you start. [...] Read more »
Chrsitmas 3: Angel and Joseph
Joseph’s Dream Bible: Bible: Matthew 1:18-25 (Read 1:18-23, Paraphrase 1:24-25) NIrV Lesson: A long time ago in Israel a man and a women didn’t get married like we do today. If someone, like Joseph, wanted to marry a woman, like Mary. He would go to her house and talk to her dad. If her dad [...] Read more »
Christmas 2: Angel and Mary
An Angel Came to Mary Lesson: –From the Bible, read Luke 1:26-38 to the children.– Mary went to visit Elizabeth. As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s voice, baby John jumped in side her belly. At that moment she was filled with the Holy spirit and said, in a loud voice, “God has blessed you more [...] Read more »
