Experience Christ in Christmas

Whether you want to deepen your relationship with Jesus for the Christmas season or any time of the year, the featured articles below will give you loads of activities to do with your family, friends and others to whom you can show God's love. The Canadian Schoolhouse Finding Christ in Christmas daily activities has family-focused activities to do at home and ways to reach out to those in your community and beyond. This Scripture-based activity calendar was created to help draw families closer together, and to the Lord, during the Christmas season.

Graham crackers, healthy foods, and a nativity scene make for an excellent gingerbread house alternative and engaging Christmas season family activity. Conversation starters and unique ‘building’ options are included to beautifully mesh learning with family time. The Sounds of Salvation Simple Christmas Performance gives you a script to be spoken from select verses in Luke and Matthew and prompts to add sounds when certain words are said. Enjoy this simple Christmas performance with large or small groups.

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Join in on the Finding Christ in Christmas daily activities to have a steady source of memory-making family time for each day of December - even after the big day! Some will take a few minutes and others can take a bit longer, but they all focus on the reason for Jesus and how He taught us to show love to others.

Gingerbread houses are a great family activity during the Christmas season. This year, bring Christ into your tradition by creating a beautiful graham nativity scene instead.

Have one or more people read through the following verses from Luke and Matthew. Assign sounds to make for each of the highlighted words. These could be sounds made by instruments, voice, or other means.