Christmas - MSSS Bible Lesson

The Christmas Story

Crafts and story ideas here concern the nativity - not the jolly red-suited fellow!

Bible Stories

The resources for the Christmas story were becoming so numerous that I have divided them into the various segments of the story. On this page though there remains some of the resources that encompass the whole of the story or are useful for Christmas programs.

Bulletin Board

Kids Sunday School Place Angels Singing

Devotions and Sermons

MSSS Advent Treasure Hunt
Keys for Kids
- Christmas Every Day
Sermons4Kids has a number of Christmas sermons.

Dramas for Christmas

MSSS Crafts What if Jesus Came Today? - suitable for older primaries/juniors.
Childrensministry.com Seasonal Ideas - Winter has many, many ideas for Christmas programs, dramas and outreach ideas - a must to check out!
Danielle's Place Christmas Play
Dovecot Sunday School Christmas Ideas
F.K.O.
Group Publishing - a few ideas for celebration and a drama.
Lorray.Com Productions have several children's musicals (scripts available on-line and CD backing tracks are very reasonable priced) including a number for Christmas.
Kids Sunday School Christmas - activities, lessons, stories and skits.
RCA Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Dramas and Skits as well as Children's Bulletins and other resources.
What Did You Say Your Name Was?

Advent Activities

First-School Advent Wreath

Quizzes

My Religious Education class was certainly challenged when it came to answering some of the quiz questions. So many assume that what they see on TV or in books is the same as the Bible but so many things have been added to the Christmas story. Use these quizzes to test your Biblical knowledge of the real Christmas story.

eBibleTeacher Christmas Quiz Page - this quiz can be downloaded in either text or PowerPoint format.
Pastors.com A Christmas Quiz: How much of what we know is really just tradition?

Workshop Rotation

District 7 - a Workshop Rotation Lesson Plan which may give ideas for other lesson plans as well.
WoRM (The Official Site of the Workshop Rotation Model) Lesson and Ideas Exchange

Colouring Pages/Activity Sheets

Activity Village Christmas Puzzles - The Christmas Story Word Search, also Mazes 2 and 3 are about the shepherds.
Bible Kids Fun Zone Coloring Index has a number of Christmas colouring pages.
Christmas Coloring Sheets - you'll find a picture of the wisemen (and a few others) here.
Christian Christmas Coloring Sheets from Childfun.com.
DLTK-Bible Christmas Story and Nativity Coloring Pages
Friendship Baptist Church Q & A - People of the Christmas Story (if this link does not take you directly to the colouring pages, choose "Children's Department", then "Children's Activities".)
Kids Domain Christmas Word Puzzles - one crossword on the nativity.

Some sites have user policies which restrict use of these colouring pages to personal or educational use. Please check the sites' policies if you wish to use these images outside of these purposes.

Crafts

Bible Kids Fun Zone Crafts has an Angel Christmas Countdown craft.
Billy Bear4Kids Christmas Crafts has a simple nativity scene comprising of Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus and a Lamb - great for gluing to a stable background.
Christmas Ornaments - a number of which had nativity scenes. I didn't have any luck downloading them in the zip file so it might be best to download them individually.
DLTK-Bible
MSSS Christmas Photo Ornaments
MSSS Christmas Craft Templates
MSSS Angel Crafts
MSSS Sheep/Lamb Crafts
MSSS Wisemen Paper Craft

Songs

Dovecot Sunday School Christmas songs for pageants and nativity plays
Group Publishing
- Away in a Manger with actions.
- Christmas Carol
- Jesus in a Manger
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Christmas Star
Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes "Facts not a Fairytale!" and "One Boy..." (Click on Juke Box and scroll through the songs - use the other scroll bars to discover links to sheet music and midi files.)
Kididdles Music Mouseum - Christmas has the lyrics for a large number of Christmas carols.