Any Carols/Songs Could Be Sung at an Appropriate Time During the Presentation

CHRISTMAS A-Z

This idea would be best suited for a Sunday School with limited resources or mostly very young children. It would work well with the involvement of youth or parents. They can create and decorate large letters on card, which could be placed somewhere in the church either in sequence (with a short sentence or Bible passage spoken by the child or parent), or non-sequentially but slowly building up as the Christmas Story is told.

Any carols/songs could be sung at an appropriate time during the presentation.

There’s room for some creativity. Working together as a family or in age-diverse groups is great for inter-generational relationships.

The suggested words/phrases below are just that – suggestions, which you could modify.

A – Advent, angels

B – bells, Bethlehem, baby, birth, born

C – carols, Christmas tree, candles, cards, celebrate, Christmas Eve/Day, church

D – donkey, decorations, ‘Do not be afraid…’, dream

E – earth, everyone, engaged (Mary & Joseph), Emmanuel, East (wisemen), Egypt

F – fields, flocks of sheep, frankincense, faith, family

G – gifts, gold, good will, greeting, good news, Gabriel, glory

H – heavenly hosts

I – inn, innkeeper

J – joy, Joseph, Jesus, journey, Jerusalem

K – King Herod, knelt (wisemen)

L – love, lights

M – Mary, manger, myrrh,

N – Noel, nativity set, no room, name, Nazareth, night

O – ornaments, Old Testament, ordinary

P – presents, Prince of Peace,

Q – quiet, question (‘Where is the child..?’ ‘How can this be?’), quickly

R – rejoice,

S – sheep, shepherds, stable, straw, singing, save, Saviour, star, swaddling cloths

T – tree, travel, tired, treasure chests

U – understanding, unwrap

V – Virgin Mary, visitors,

W – wise men, wrapping, worship, wonder

X – Xmas (the baby ends His life on a cross)

Y – yawn,

Z - zzz (baby asleep), Zechariah and Elizabeth (parents of John the Baptist)