How to have a Joyful Christmas Centered around Jesus
SSabrina Harrison··1 min read
How to have a Joyful Christmas Centered around Jesus
While planning your Christmas festivities this season, include some of these in your traditions:
1. Drive around and look at Christmas Lights- Play these songs in the car, while you talk about Jesus being the Light of the World
2. Use the Shepherd on the Search to draw kids closer to Christmas- It’s the same concept of the Elf, but it has religious meaning. It keeps your children focused on helping the shepherd find baby Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas. Buy it here: /collections/christmas
3. Watch the Charlie Brown Christmas and eat popcorn together
4. Make Paper Snowflakes and talk about Isaiah 1:18
5. Go Caroling as a Family- Grab a few other families and go caroling! This is a fun way to spread the joy of the birth of Jesus to others.
6. Set out a Nativity Scene and tell the Christmas story as you add each piece
7. Family Bake Night- Bake your favorite recipes and then assemble Cookie Platters and deliver them to your neighbors.
8. Take a Christmas Hike- Pretend like you are Mary and Joseph on their way to Bethlehem. Ask your kids questions about what it must have been like for them as they prepared to have a baby and had to travel a long way.
9. Volunteer at a local Soup Kitchen
10. Read the story of Jesus Birth in Luke 1:26-2:40 together by candlelight.
12.Have a Christmas Worship Party- Set up some fun lights and watch these videos as you worship together
13. Sponsor a Family
14. Build a Gingerbread Nativity- Build a gingerbread house and add the parts of the nativity into it.
15. Have a Birthday Party for Jesus- Bake a birthday cake for Jesus, sing Happy Birthday to him and celebrate his birth together.
16. Hide and Seek baby Jesus-Take the baby Jesus from one of your Nativity scenes and hide Him each day. Have your kids find Him every morning.
17. Watch this fun video about the Christmas Story from our Seeds Team
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