9 Ways to Help Your Child Remember Christ at Christmas

In our family, Christmas is a celebration of the Baby Jesus' birth. Here are some of the ways we've used over the years to help us and our children remember what Christmas is really all about.

1. Celebrate Advent in your home. Early on in our marriage, a relative gave me a book to lead children through the Advent celebrations leading up to Christmas. That's a gift I've referred to again and again. Some books have daily activities and discussion questions you can use to talk to your children about the meaning of Christmas.

2. Plan a birthday party for Jesus. Invite friends or just have your family participate. Play some party games, have a birthday cake, and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus.

3. Attend a Christmas Eve service this year. Even young children will be delighted by the candles and the carol singing.

4. Read the Christmas story to your children from a child-friendly Bible story book.

5. Give your children an inexpensive, unbreakable nativity set to play with. They can use it to reenact the story of Christ's birth, and add their own imaginations to the retelling.

6. Help them make popsicle stick puppets or paper cut outs of the main characters in the nativity story and act out the Christmas story together.

7. If you don't attend a church regularly, visit one that is putting on a children's Christmas pageant this year.

8. Teach your children some Christmas carols that celebrate Christ's birth. Even young

preschoolers enjoy singing Away in a Manger. The vocal abilities of older children can be challenged with songs like Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem.

9. Help a needy family this Christmas. Remind your child of your reason for serving others - to honor Baby Jesus.

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