Christmas is a time for all the senses.

Image courtesy creative commons license flickr.com by mulacmail 12/2007

Sing Do you Hear what I hear?

Go on a Christmas "senses hunt". Collect in a basket things that have to do with Christmas and your senses throughout your home (e.g. bright wrapping paper to see, pine cones for smell, peppermint for taste… etc.). Then compare to another basket having to do with Christmas senses at the time of Jesus’ birth. In that basket you can have hay for touch, some sort of perfume for the gifts from the Wiseman for smell, a beautiful star for sight, warm milk for taste (perhaps from the stable animals??), angelic music for hearing and anything else you can think of!

Christmas is a time for humility.

Sing Be thou Humble Hymns pg.130
What does it mean to be humble?
Where were we born? Where was Christ born? What are differences between those 2 places?

Enjoy the following (and remember to make together as a family!):
Baby Jesus Haystacks

Image courtesy creative commons license flickr.com by bunchofpants 12/3/2007
Ingredients:
• 1 package choc chips,
• ½ cup peanut butter,
• 4 cups chow mein noodles,
• mini marshmallows.

Directions: 1. Melt choc chips and peanut butter together for 1 min in microwave, stir and microwave for additional 1 ½ min until melted. Add chow mein noodles and stir with 2 spoons/forks as tossing a salad.
2. Drop onto waxed paper.
3. Add a marshmallow to represent baby Jesus.

Recipe found off dltk-kids.com

Christ came to earth at Christmas time, dwelling in a tabernacle of clay.

Image courtesy creative commons license flickr.com Katherine Donaldson 3/2006

“For behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.

And he shall cast out devils, or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men.

And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.

And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.” Mosiah 3:5–8

Grab a few tubs of play dough and mold something that has to do with this scripture and/or Christ’s Nativity story. Sometimes clay is used for modeling, what did Christ model or show us in life?