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 …
• A multitude of wonderful Christmas smells filling the month of December.
• Of coming together as a family and putting up the Christmas Lights and the Christmas tree.
• Of so many decorations that it took a large trunk and several large boxes to store them away each year.
• Of cleverly disguising and wrapping gifts. My family is …
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 …
Materials
A string Christmas lights (enough so that each young person can receive a light bulb). On most light sets, if one bulb is removed the circuit will be broken and none of them will work.
Activity
One by one, have each young person place his or her light bulb in the string and share one special thing about himself …
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.…
Materials
1. Sheet of Paper for each participant
2. Pencil for each participant
Game Play
Give everyone a piece of paper and a pencil. Explain to them that they will close their eyes and you will tell them what to draw. DON’T tell them they’re drawing a snowman!
Instructions
1. Draw 3 circles on top of each other. Each circle …
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 …
Materials
Recording of the Song: “All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”
Game Objective
Don’t Laugh!
Play this game while listening to the song:”All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”
Game Play
1. Everyone sits in a circle.
2. From this point forward, you may not show your teeth.
3. To speak, you must …