Dec 22-28, Free Primary Christmas lesson helps
- redwallace
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I figured most people will want to teach the Christmas lesson, so I didn't update the December 15–21: The Family: A Proclamation to the World.
If you are still interested in that lesson, you can view the one I did 4 years ago by clicking the image.
Ideas for Teaching Children
I can “offer [my] testimony” to celebrate Jesus’s birth.
Consider how you might introduce your children to “The Living Christ.” Maybe you could help them point to the name Christ in the title and the signatures of the First Presidency and Twelve. You might explain that this is their testimony of Jesus Christ that they wanted to share with the world.
You could give each child a phrase from “The Living Christ” and ask them to find or draw a picture of that phrase. Then you could help them find the phrase in “The Living Christ.” You might even compile those pictures and phrases into a book.
I have a coloring/ activity book in my store that helps with this.
Share with one another how you gained your testimony of Jesus Christ. Maybe you could pass around a picture of the Savior and take turns sharing something you know about Him (including truths taught in “The Living Christ”).
Write in the circles truths about Jesus Christ, either as a class or individually (from The Living Christ). Then complete the picture (with the other circles) as you discuss them together.
Here is a video that shows you how to assemble my coloring books. It is not the same book, but you get the idea.
“He went about doing good.”
As you and your children read the second paragraph of “The Living Christ,” talk with them about some of the things Jesus did. You could also look at pictures from His life (see this week’s activity page and the Gospel Art Book). Invite your children to talk about what the Savior is doing in the pictures. How can we serve others as He did? The “Light the World” videos in the Gospel Library could give you ideas.
“He is the light, the life, and the hope of the world.”
Help your children find Christmas hymns that tell of the light, life, and hope that the Savior’s birth brought to the world, such as “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (Hymns, no. 208). Sing the hymns together, and let your children share how Jesus has brought light, life, and hope into their lives.
“God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son.”
What gifts have we received because of Jesus Christ? Perhaps you and your children could look for these gifts in “The Living Christ” or in a song like “He Sent His Son” (Children’s Songbook, 34–35). Then they could gift-wrap something to represent those gifts. You could suggest that your children open the gifts on Christmas Day to help them remember the Savior and His gifts to us.
Hide these around the room. When the child/ren find them, ask them if they have to do with the real reason we celebrate Christmas. Take the “Yes” pile, attach cut-up toilet paper rolls to it, and put it in the manger. Testify that Jesus is the best gift.
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