‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
(or A Visit from St. Nicholas)
by Clement Clarke Moore
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their …
Materials
Three pairs each of two different colors of Christmas stockings or clean socks. As a backup you can cut stocking outlines from colored paper.
Game Preparation
1. Number the stockings from 1 to 6 for each color.
2. Hide the stockings around the room
3. Inside stockings 2-5, (or on the back if you use paper ones) place a …
Materials
1. Choose a Christmas related word or phrase such as: Christmas, Poinsettia, Candy cane, Bethlehem.
2. Timer
Game Play
Participants are to create as many little words as possible before the timer runs out using only the letters in the chosen word or phrase before the timer runs out.
Example: Christmas
Words: sit, is, his, miss, rat, tar, this, …
Materials
List of items
Game Play
Divide everyone into two or more groups and give them a time limit with which to find the items on the list. The first group that returns with the all the items or the most items on the list within the limited time wins.
Christmas items related to the Biblical account:
Star, Gold, Gifts, …
Materials
Based on the classic beach game of “limbo”. Try using a string of twinkle lights, or a strand of sparkly garland as a replacement for your limbo stick.
Game Play
Start the garland at a height that everyone can limbo under. Then progressively lower it until you have a single winner.
Variation
You can make the game a little …
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In the wonderful book THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER the Herdmann children (the rugged, undisciplined, rabble-rousing children from the neighborhood) volunteer to play the key roles in the Christmas pageant. It makes for some pretty funny moments. But at the end of the book something happens to the Herdmans. They begin to understand what the Christmas story is all about.…
The answers follow the letters of the alphabet from A to Z with the answer to #1 starting with an A and #26 starting with a Z.
1. The first witnesses to the miracle of Christmas
2. Heard in churches on Christmas day
3. Used in both decoration and illumination
4. What little girls may like to find under the …
Sesame Street had a skit one time of the old fairy tale of the princess and the frog. In the Sesame Street version the princess kissed the frog, and then turned into a frog herself. It is closer to the Christmas story. God became one of us.…
Praise Him for the incarnation,
for the word made flesh.
I will not sing of shepherds
watching flocks on frosty nights,
or angel choristers.
I will not sing of a stable bare in Bethlehem,
or lowing oxen,
wise men trailing star with gold,
frankincense, and myrrh.
Tonight I will sing praise to the Father
who stood on heaven’s threshold
and …