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Grades 1-3
Introductory Activity – Star Hunt
Materials: construction paper, scissors, markers
From construction paper, cut multiple stars of various sizes. Write the Life Point on each star. Hide the stars throughout your classroom. Tell the kids that you have hidden stars, and it is their job to find them. Give them time to find as many stars as possible. Afterward, tell the kids that in today’s lesson, King Herod attempts to stop God’s plan of sending the Messiah. Read the Life Point together.
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Game – Jump to Answer
Materials: tape line in the middle of the game area
Lead kids to line up on the tape line, facing you. Make a statement about the Bible story: “Men traveled from the east to find a new king.” Kids jump left off of the line if the statement is true and right off the line if the statement is false. Guide kids to move back to the line. Make another statement about the Bible story and wait for kids to jump left or right to answer it. Continue with statements about the story. Say the Life Point with the kids after you have reviewed the story.
Craft – Favorite Scene
Materials: construction paper, markers, decorative supplies
Give each child a piece of construction paper and ensure they have access to the other supplies. Instruct them to draw and decorate their favorite scene from today’s lesson. Encourage them to use all the decorative supplies to make their pictures colorful. Instruct them to write the Life Point across the top of the page. Allow volunteers to show their pictures to the rest of the class and explain why they chose that scene.
Grades 4-6
Introductory Activity – Card Roundup
Materials: variety of Christmas cards, two gift bags
Scatter the cards around the game area. Label one bag Biblical and the other bag Not Biblical. Set the two bags at one end of the game area. Guide kids to line up, one behind the other, near the bags. Tell kids that different kinds of pictures are on Christmas cards. Tell the first player to run to a card and examine the front of the card to decide if the front reflects the Biblical story of Christmas or not. Then the player will run back to the bags and drop the card in the correct bag. Then the next player will find another card to bring back. Examine the cards in the Biblical bag after the relay. Tell kids that the story today will tell more about God’s plan to send Jesus.
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Game – Christmas Review
Materials: review questions
Form two teams with the kids. Using the review questions from the lesson or previous lessons, tell the kids that the team who says “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” first and answers the question correctly will receive a point. The team with the most points at the end of the activity is the winner! Say the Unit Verse together: “She will give birth to a son and you are to name him Jesus, because He will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21”
Craft – Window Clings
Materials: gallon ziplock freezer bags, glue, food color, toothpicks or coffee stirrers, scissors, hair dryers, paper, pencils
Guide kids to cut a large star shape (or other shape) from the paper. Help a kid slide the shape into a ziplock bag. Lead the kid to pour glue and spread it over the shape. She can add drops food coloring to the glue and swirl it around with toothpicks. Use hair dryers to help the glue dry. When the glue is dry, cut the shape from the ziplock bag. Tell kids that when they get home, they can peel the plastic from the back of the shape, moisten the back of the shape, and stick it to a window or mirror. (You may want to plan to set aside the clings to dry for the week and complete them next week.) Talk about how God helped protect baby Jesus and how God’s plan could not be stopped. Say the Weekly Verse together.
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