Making Christmas Meaningful

If you're a Christian parent like me, you know how challenging it can be to remind your children of what the season is really about. Stop competing with Santa! Here are some easy ideas I've gathered and implemented this year:

1) Use the Christmas cards you receive as prayer cards during family devotions





PS Great decor idea from here!

2) Take your kids to the farm to and show them what a manger is

 (modern-day manger)

3) Use your nativity scene to "act out" the Christmas story over a few nights. Introduce the new characters as they come into the story (first Mary and Joseph, then Jesus, then the shepherd, wise men, etc)

4) Have a Christmas Cookie party with the neighborhood kids

5) Go see a live Nativity (we missed this event already! They re-create 1st century Bethlehem, complete with an working open-air market and Roman soldiers! A "must do" for next year)


6) Have fun as a family! Ice skating, playing in the snow, watching movies, etc.

 

Hope this helps!

-Ash