The Solemnity of Christ the King and the end of the Liturgical Year is this weekend! But every end also means a new beginning, and this beginning brings Advent. I LOVE Advent. The preparing, the waiting, the hope, the peaceful promise. Here are some ideas for you to use with your kiddos to keep and celebrate the season of Advent. Click on any of the images to take you to the resource or post: Looking for music to keep you in the season? Check out this Advent Song Playlist: And videos are always a great addition in the classroom: Learn about the New Liturgical Year with this Liturgical Year Coloring Book: And this Liturgical Year Calendar: Make plans for decorating for the Liturgical Year: Try some new Advent Traditions: Printable Advent Candles for an Advent Wreath: What Advent Looks Like printable: Wandering Wise Men: An alternate activity to Elf on the Shelf, I used the Wise Men from our classroom Nativity to emphasize the waiting and preparing and seeking that is required of us during Advent. Click on the images to go to the posts with 15 different ideas. Pray and color the O Antiphons: Seeking our Savior: An Advent Detective Journey based on Scripture, showing how Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Christ. Printable coloring book, Scripture cards, mini craft projects, and a leaders guide. Make a Peg Doll Nativity: Advent Jeopardy Trivia games here and here. Party Like a Saint- A December-Saint-Themed Advent Party with crafts and games. What if they had email? Youth Group Advent lesson idea putting the Christmas story in a new perspective. A Stocking For Jesus: Activities to go along with the book, including some Advent printables. Nativity Photo Booth, putting all of those Nativity play costumes and props to good use! Advent Prayer Ring- Great for Youth Groups or Bible Studies: My Gift- An Epiphany Readers' Theater: How will you be keeping Advent this year?
Epiphany is celebrated by many Christians around the world. When is Epiphany and what does it mean? What is Epiphany? What is Epiphany? Epiphany is a celebration of the arrival of wise men, also called magi, from the East who brought gifts to Jesus. What Does the Word “Epiphany” Mean? In spiritual terms, the wordContinue Reading
Christmas isn’t over yet! Keep the festivities going for 12 days and celebrate Epiphany with your Children! Christmas is over, time to take down the decorations…wait, Stop! No it isn’t! Contrary to the popular belief that Christmas is one day and come December 26th, Christmas is over, the reality is that Christmas is a season […]
ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 5, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2011 MORNING STARS TOGETHER, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2014 MAGNIFICAT, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic JOY TO THE WORLD, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic EMERGING STAR 2, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2014 EMERGING STAR 2, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2010 EMERGING STAR 3, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2014 ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 3, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2009 ANGELS AND SHEPHERDS, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2013 IN THY DARK STREETS SHINETH, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2013 ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 1, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 1997 ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 2 , Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2006 ADVENT STARRY NIGHT 4, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2010 ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2013 CHRISTMAS MORNING, Virginia Wieringa, Acrylic 2012 This is an assortment of images I've created with an Advent, Christmas and Epiphany theme. I'm honored when churches ask to use my images and I am happy to share them. However, as it says in Luke 10:7 "the laborer is worthy of their hire" and is repeated in 1 Timothy 5:18, "The worker deserves their pay." For a fee, I am willing to send you a high quality image for use on program and bulletin covers. You can email me at: [email protected] Of course, the high resolution image I send will be for one use or one season and will come without the 'watermark' of my name and copyright.
Sharing a Fun & Easy Nativity Game to Play with Kids from Pre-School to High School at Christmas or Advent, great Sunday School activity too! I have done this nativity game with my kids elementary school classes & it has been really fun doing with my 3-5 year old Sunday school class at church. In […]
Game to play when teaching the story of the Magi / wise men / Three kings from Matthew 2. Part of a whole lesson on-site.
Hosting an Advent event at your church or school? This easy-to assemble activity sheet creates a beautiful Christmas ornament perfect for displaying throughout the season. The six sides of the ornament show a stained glass depiction of the Nativity scene to see the newborn King of kings. A perfect activity starter for
Here are a few fun and creative Epiphany activities. Living with an eye towards the themes of each season helps ground me savor the celebrations more!
Making sure that you celebrate all 12 days of Christmas is a great way to live the liturgical year with your kids! The last day of the 12 days of Christmas is the Epiphany, and
These free hidden picture Bible activities for children give kids the opportunity to find hidden images in pictures that depict popular Bible stories.
This time of the year, it is nearly impossible to not feel overwhelmed, rushed, or behind. As we enter the season of Advent, RPC wants to ensure that we help our families embrace this season of preparation and anticipation for the celebration of Christ’s birth. We are always wanting to provide ways for families to focus on their relationship with Christ and especially to remember the true reason for Christmas. Below are 4 Advent devotions for each week of Advent. These were written specifically for parents and children to read through and understand the season together. Print them out and let the kids color them in! We look forward to celebrating the Advent season this year with your family.
The Nativity is such a lovely homemade project to create for your family this holiday season. Here are several tutorials on how to make your own Nativity Manger sets with pictured tutorials with free nativity patterns, small nativity sets, how to make a nativity stable and even outdoor nativities! There are 29 Nativity tutorials to make over on the Tip Junkie Creative Community if you're looking how to make even more three themes with great instructions. The Nativity 1. Away in a Manger {Homemade Creche} ~ This beautiful jewel toned nativity scene is the perfect way to remember the reason for
This Bible lesson teaches about the coming of the Wise Men to visit the young Jesus. Good lesson choice for the Sunday following Christmas.
We have spent two wild weeks talking about "Winter" and the letters "S" & "W". As some of you may know, my class and I are located in Central Alabama and winter here is . . . well. . . ummmm . . . usually just wet! This year has been no exception. We have had a lot of rain. So, I tried to brighten things up with a few fun snowy activities! One of the very first things we did was make the cutest Shape Snowman! Everyone picked out their very own different shapes to use. ; It was so much fun watching everyone identify the different shapes! I was reminded several times that "snowmen are round like a circle", and then they would pick out a square! We've made this next little snowflake for many, many years now. Our craft stick snowflake. The fun part of this craft comes when the children mix glue and white paint together. Of course everyone has to touch it to see how sticky it is. Next comes the real fun - you get to "dump" handfuls of Epsom salt all over your snowflake! They actually have a little shimmer to them. During the Christmas holidays I sent an e-mail to all my amazing teacher friends and asked them to save white wrapping boxes (the kind you get at the stores for clothes) and newspapers for me. Of course my friends came through for me AGAIN!!! I tapped the white boxes together with a little tape and . . . . INSTANT FUN! We now had the ability to build an ice fort!! YES! The boxes lasted about 2 weeks and then they started falling apart. That was ok with us because by then we were moving on to something new. Again, we don't really see snow in Alabama so we had our on snowball fight using newspapers! For the past 4 years I have made our infamous "southern snowman" and for the last 4 years the great state of Alabama has brought home the National Championship trophy for college football (three for Alabama and one for Auburn). Hmmm . . . I see a pattern!!! Do you think the coaches should be giving me a percentage of their salaries???? Guess not! Here is this year's official snowman - And of course, here he is in his official "University of Alabama" gear! To make things even better (could they be?) we were also studying the number 15 (as in this is the 15th National Championship for the University of Alabama). Another fun activity we did to get our imagination going was to make a snowman/snowgirl with our palm prints. I love this activity because the children's imaginations really get a good work-out. Besides picking out their favorite scarf, hat and buttons, the children decide on their own names for their snowman/snowgirl. I always love seeing the different amounts of snow the children put on their creations. By the way, the snowman on the left is in a "windy snowstorm"! Since last year's class had so much for with our "sticky box", I had to make another one this year. (You can find the details of our sticky box here Sticky Box) I changed things up a little and let the children used some old foam letters we had laying around. Everyone loved finding the letters of their names and their favorite colors! It was such a big hit we are sharing it with our friends in the four-year old classes! We talked about the letter "S" a lot during our Winter Week and we decided that our favorite "S" word was "SNOWMAN/SNOWGIRL". We ended up our discussion about the letter "S" by making a "s"illy "s"nowman/"s"nowgirl out of toilet paper rolls. I love the faces!!!! We got a little "wacky" during our "W" week and painted with worms! Don't worry, we didn't use real worms, we used some of my Dad's old plastic fishing worms that I brought home from the lake! I have a funny feeling he would love knowing how we used them because WOW, we had fun! The end results were "w"onderful! We had a HUGE surprise on Thursday, January 17, 2013 in Alabama . . . . we had SNOW! Yes, real snow. Do you know what happens in Alabama when it snows????? We all leave our classrooms and go look at it! Yes, snow is THAT rare in Alabama. Moments are this picture was taken we decided that we could not wait another second! We went back to our classroom, got our jackets and headed out into the wintry mess. OH THE JOY! Thank you for visiting with us I hope you COME BACK SOON!
Here are a few fun and creative Epiphany activities. Living with an eye towards the themes of each season helps ground me savor the celebrations more!
Happy Epiphany! Although the feast of the Epiphany moves to the closest Sunday in the US, we usually celebrate at home on January 6. Here's a fun craft we're doing this year with the 3
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Making sure that you celebrate all 12 days of Christmas is a great way to live the liturgical year with your kids! The last day of the 12 days of Christmas is the Epiphany, and
I like to have easy activities ready for the kids when company comes over. Some of our friends have older children so I was looking for printable ornaments that they would like to make too. The more Christ-centered the activity, the better. That is what the Christmas is all about, right? The short story is, […]
A growing Epiphany worship practice is to hand out to church members paper stars, each with a single guiding word for the coming year.
Introduce the Liturgical Year with this mini coloring book! Intended for single-family use. (See my other listing for church and other group use) Download includes 5 pages that can be printed, colored, cut apart, and stapled together to create a 9-page booklet. Pages include a picture and description for each liturgical season/feast day. The ones included are: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. This is a digital item. No item will be mailed to you. Due to the nature of digital products, we do not process returns, refunds, or cancellations.
This item is currently SOLD OUT… Go to our Etsy shop and get your copy of “Follow His Star” book You can get a version here with the book to read along with your kids. Click here to get your copy now! Have you ever wondered why the wise men, the magi, were searching […]
On the Sunday we celebrate Epiphany at the church I serve, it has become a tradition to pass out “star words.” Perhaps you’ve heard of them. This practice of passing out star words has grown in popularity recently. On the day that we remember the star that led the magi to Jesus, we pass out pieces of paper cut into star shapes with a printed word. I first heard of this practice from a fellow Presbyterian minister Marci Glass on her blog.
The Solemnity of Christ the King is THIS WEEKEND! Already! The end of the Liturgical Year just snuck right up on me, which is exactly what it is not suppose to do. (hello, Sunday readings.) The blow is softened however, because every end also means a new beginning, and this beginning brings Advent. I LOVE Advent. The preparing, the waiting, the hope, the peaceful promise. Here are some ideas for you to use with your kiddos to keep and celebrate the season of Advent: Looking for music to keep you in the season? Check out this Advent Song Playlist: And videos are always a great addition in the classroom: Printable Advent Candles for an Advent Wreath: What Advent Looks Like printable: Wandering Wise Men: An alternate activity to Elf on the Shelf, I used the Wise Men from our classroom Nativity to emphasize the waiting and preparing and seeking that is required of us during Advent. Click on the images to go to the posts with 15 different ideas. Seeking our Savior: An Advent Detective Journey based on Scripture, showing how Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Christ. Printable coloring book, Scripture cards, mini craft projects, and a leaders guide. Advent Jeopardy Trivia games here and here. What if they had email? Youth Group Advent lesson idea putting the Christmas story in a new perspective. A Stocking For Jesus: Activities to go along with the book, including some Advent printables. Nativity Photo Booth, putting all of those Nativity play costumes and props to good use! Advent Prayer Ring- Great for Youth Groups or Bible Studies: My Gift- An Epiphany Readers' Theater: How will you be keeping Advent this year?
The Christmas story is full of wondrous happenings—Mary’s encounter with the angel, Joseph’s dreams, and the shepherds’ glorious invite to the birth—but perhaps the most intriguing is the determined quest of the wise men. After a lengthy journey God leads them to the child, and their response gives us great wisdom for approaching our own
One of my kids had a problem with a friend recently. One of my other kids had an issue with a class at school. Another one was struggling with his after-school routine. Two others had a major falling-out with each other. (Okay, let’s be real. They all have falling-outs with each other every day.) What do […]
Have the standard traditions not worked for you? Observe a non-traditional Epiphany celebration with these simple and meaningful ideas.
The Epiphany Kings' Day Activities FOR THE DISTANCE LEARNING GOOGLE SLIDE VERSION --> CLICK HERE! Celebrate the end of the Christmas season with this informative and fun pack! Your students will learn all about The Epiphany while reading, writing and coloring. INCLUDED: Cover page (color and black and white) Reading: - What is the Epiphany? (3 pages) - Prayer - Nativity sequence activity WRITING: - Describe the Epiphany - What gifts would you bring baby Jesus? - My prayer for the end of the Christmas season - and more! - mini prayer cards COLORING: - 7 pages
The “O Antiphons” are a tradition of prayer during a period of time known as the Octave of Advent. Thus, they begin on December 17 th
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Want to teach your kids about the Magi? Teach your kids about the Christmas story with fun, hands-on Wise Men activities and lessons they'll love!
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Christmas isn’t over yet! Keep the festivities going for 12 days and celebrate Epiphany with your Children! Christmas is over, time to take down the decorations…wait, Stop! No it isn’t! Contrary to the popular belief that Christmas is one day and come December 26th, Christmas is over, the reality is that Christmas is a season […]
The Solemnity of Christ the King is THIS WEEKEND! Already! The end of the Liturgical Year just snuck right up on me, which is exactly what it is not suppose to do. (hello, Sunday readings.) The blow is softened however, because every end also means a new beginning, and this beginning brings Advent. I LOVE Advent. The preparing, the waiting, the hope, the peaceful promise. Here are some ideas for you to use with your kiddos to keep and celebrate the season of Advent: Looking for music to keep you in the season? Check out this Advent Song Playlist: And videos are always a great addition in the classroom: Printable Advent Candles for an Advent Wreath: What Advent Looks Like printable: Wandering Wise Men: An alternate activity to Elf on the Shelf, I used the Wise Men from our classroom Nativity to emphasize the waiting and preparing and seeking that is required of us during Advent. Click on the images to go to the posts with 15 different ideas. Seeking our Savior: An Advent Detective Journey based on Scripture, showing how Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Christ. Printable coloring book, Scripture cards, mini craft projects, and a leaders guide. Advent Jeopardy Trivia games here and here. What if they had email? Youth Group Advent lesson idea putting the Christmas story in a new perspective. A Stocking For Jesus: Activities to go along with the book, including some Advent printables. Nativity Photo Booth, putting all of those Nativity play costumes and props to good use! Advent Prayer Ring- Great for Youth Groups or Bible Studies: My Gift- An Epiphany Readers' Theater: How will you be keeping Advent this year?
Celebrating Epiphany is wonderful way to officially end the Christmas season. The feast commemorates the visit of the Magi to Baby Jesus sometime after his birth. And as the Godly Play story says, "Every year they come too late, after the baby has been born . . . That's why we think about them on January 6!" Here are some ideas that I have done in past years: Warm / Cool Color Epiphany Star This simple art project leaves a lot of room for the children to develop and explore on their own. I left the star in the sample blank as symbol of the space inside us that God's revelation can fill. Tell the Godly Play Epiphany story Make an Epiphany cake The link to the recipe is in the post above! Montessori gift-wrapping tray exercise For preschool children, this activity develops coordination and reminds the children of the gifts that Baby Jesus received. If you have any other ideas or links, please share them in the comments!
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