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Contact_FullName: Kim Contact_Email: kamckerlie@excite.com date:: 12/3/06 Area: Jesus is born -Misc. Idea: Turn your home center into a nativity scene! We put down rolled plastic, covered with hay. Our class is in a church so we had access to a wooden manger from a previous Christmas program. Parents let us barrow large stuffed animals. We already had a baby doll. We set out robes and bath towels (for headdresses) so they could dress the parts. The children loved it! Just be prepared to vacuum each day, and make sure no one is allergic to hay! Contact_FullName: Ann Contact_Email: jacsplace_2001@yahoo.com date:: 112701 Area: christian Christmas Idea: Place Jesus' name up on your birthday board/wall. With his birthday. Make sure that you show the children that we celebrate Jesus' Birthday too. Contact_FullName: deb Contact_Email: methvegas@hotmail.com Area: christian christmas gift pre-schoolers Idea: After sharing the Christmas story with children, give each child a glow-in-the -dark star, and tell them that when they see their star glowing, they will always remember why we celebrate Christmas. Contact_FullName: Alaina Contact_Email: Shrimpey@hotmail.com Area: Christmas-Religious Idea: A great book to read to children about the story of Jesus's arrival is Who's Coming to Our House by by Joseph Slate, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator) It is perfect for preschoolers as it uses the animals found in the stable to get the barn ready for Mary, Jesus and Joseph this was my favorite book as a child i'm 19 now!!!!! Hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I do. 11-18-00Traditional Nativity Play, free for Children ages 3 & up. http://angelfire.lycos.com/wi2/NativityPlaybySilvie/index.html
11-10-00GOOD BEHAVIOR: have a manger and a bail of hay. When one child 'catches' another child doing something good that child gets a handful a hay and adds it to the manger. When the manger is full, the class gets a special snack. (Christmas cookies....)
7-23-00For Christmas at our church I had 3 gold paper horns coming out of the side of the bulletin board. The top one was the longest, middle shorter and bottom shortest. I stapled a piece of red cloth (like a banner hanging from each horn) on each. On the top horn I put the letters, "A Savior"; on the middle one I put, "is born" on the bottom one I put "for . . .". I cut out large star shapes ahead of time and wrote their names on using glitter fabric paints. After they dried I gave them to the kids to decorate with markers, glitter, sequins, etc. Then we attached them to the bulletin board so now it read: A Savior is born for . . . (and all the stars surrounded the trumpets with the kids' names on them.)
Date: 12-15-99I work in a Christian preschool and we make mangers out of a half of a toilet tube and cut another tube to make the legs, stapling it on the bottom of manger. We then send it home with the children with a bag of yarn (straw) and a note explaining that the child can put one piece of straw in Jesus' manger for every good deed. During the last week before we have our Christmas break we send a picture of Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus to put in the manger. This helps the children to focus on Jesus and doing good for others as He taught us. the parents love this idea and the kids really seem to love it also. ideaWe Three Kings From Orient Are: For each child you will need: 3 Toilet Paper Tubes 3 6" squares of metallic fabric 3 metallic pipe cleaners 3 pieces of paper, or paint to cover tp rolls 3 oval 'faces' (children add features) glue 3 Dove Christmas candy wrappers For each King: First cover the tp roll with either contact paper, regular construction paper, or paint it & let dry. Next, cover one end with the fabric, so one side hangs down longer than the other. Wrap the pipe cleaner around for a band that holds on the king's head piece (actually looks more like what a Shepard would wear!). Have child draw on the features on the oval, then glue it on. Lastly, trim the candy wrapper so that you've got the shiny 'present' left, and not the crinkled edges. There you have it! Three Kings with their gifts for Baby Jesus! :) Date: 11-28-99ideaWe have a birthday party for Jesus in my preschool classroom, and it's a great way to stay focused on the reason for the season. The children help plan and make decorations, a parent usually donates a birthday cake (or I do :>) ) and we play party games and have activities which focus on the Christmas story. We discuss how we were once babies too, and for a bulletin board we all bring in a baby picture (yes, even me). Jesus in the manger is in the center, and the title is "I WAS A BABY LIKE BABY JESUS". This leads to some wonderful discussions on how Jesus is God's Son and was "real" like all of us. We use pictures on the flannel board (I use a Mary Manz Simon book) to put the story in order, match pictures of angels, the star, shepherds, sheep, etc. in a memory game I made using clip art, and of course we sing the birthday song. It's a great way to end the week before Christmas vacation. Date: 11-21-99Date: 12-9-98I work for a Christian preschool so at Christmas I tried to put the focus Jesus being born instead of Santa. One way I did this was to make a very special bulletin board. I used a blue background, made a 3D manger, and drew a silhouette of a baby laying in it. I put a piece of cloth over the baby's body so that only the face a one hand was seen. Then I put a big star in the corner of the board and put "Happy Birthday Jesus" above the manger. Then I had the children decorate a gift for Jesus using a square piece of construction paper, stickers, markers, stamps and whatever else the wanted to use. To finish off the presents they chose a bow to put on it and a name tag to identify their gift. The children really got into giving a gift to Baby Jesus. This was a hit with the parents and all who passed by the room as well.
Date: 12-6-98Circle Idea, Find a crèche that the children can play with. I found one at a dollar store. Wrap up each figure, I used six boxes, one for the angel, one for the shepherds, one for the animals, etc. All the boxes are nicely wrapped, but the box that baby Jesus was in was the biggest and the best wrapped. I wrapped it with gold paper, covered it with beautiful bows. By far the best wrapped present, all the children wanted this present. We talked about the size of the presents, the colors, etc. I had a present for each child to open, as we opened them we set up the nativity scene. (We made a stable at work time, out of cardboard etc. Save the best for last, agree with the children about how this is the best, most beautiful, most shiny, wonderful looking present. It is a free gift, it is Jesus, this is what Christmas is all about. This can be done at any-time of year. The children loved it. We added to our "living room" (housekeeping area). We are decorating our whole room for Christmas, bit by bit. and the nativity was set on the coffee table.
Date: 12-6-98I usually talk about living things/babies/growing...as part of my theme on remembering the birth of Jesus...incl. the sort of care a baby needs. As our charity project, we have a "Baby Shower for Jesus", with collected items donated to either a local home for unwed mothers or an organization for homeless families. Kids love comparing sizes of baby items to the items they currently use.
Date: 11-21-98Hang a glittering star over a quiet corner in your room. (The home living area is where we put ours) Under the star, place a rocking chair and a doll sized manger. Inside the manger, place a doll, wrapped in "swaddling clothes." The children do a wonderful job of taking care of "Baby Jesus." Sweet photo opportunity too!
Date: 11-1-98have a Happy Birthday baby Jesus party. Have a birthday cake with a small manager on it. Let the children sing happy birthday to Jesus. We did this at a church and had all the preschoolers go to different stations and make ornaments for the tree. You can use the ornaments to decorate a tree at your center or they can take them home. A great way to talk about the real meaning of Christmas.
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