Last year I volunteered to tell the Christmas story with the children at my daughters’ nursery. This year they asked if I could do it again, so I took in my olive wood nativity set to which my husband very generously add a Christ child and a Risen Christ with their open arms. I needed […]
Home is the perfect place to have a nativity scene which children can play with. Often sets are so beautiful and delicate that they aren’t appropriate for children’s touch, which is a shame. There isn’t any other Bible story which has so many versions available, and play is a wonderful way for children (and adults!) […]
Re-tell and play with the Christmas story using a child-friendly nativity set. The Christmas my daughter was 18 months old, I thought it time to invest in a(nother) child friendly nativity set. I wanted one which she could play with and that we can use to tell the Christmas story together. She already loved having […]
Make your own nativity set using yogurt pots. Benecol bottles (any yogurty type bottles will do!) work well, and it’s easy to use the stickers from A Christmas Family GodVenture. The book has 400+ stickers including lots of faces, buttons and the like to create your own nativity scene.In fact, you don’t even need bottles, […]
This is a fun play you can do as a family – it’s a short Christmas play based around numbers, called ‘Counting down to Christmas’. It’s not something you need to rehearse – you can just grab the book and off you go. If your family enjoys dressing up, they could make some simple costumes […]
Whether you’ve got a new set for this year, or are using one you’ve had before, here’s some ideas for things you could do with your set: • Use them to act out the Christmas story as you read it from the Bible. • Loan them out to other people for a week. • Take […]
I love finding ways to pray with young children. This works from the age where a child can point, and works well for any age above that! All you need to do is build two things, buildings, trains, whatever your children enjoy. Chat at your build them, and give them each a name of a […]
