Read a Christmas Christmas Traditions That 4 chapter book together as a family. 25 Celebrate the Birth Of Jesus Christ Try these: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Make an advent Make and use Jesse Tree Replace one or more of your The True Gift: A Christ- 1 wreath. Light it ornaments during Advent. 3 Christmas gifts with a gift mas Story, The Gift of each night and You can find instructions from ELCA Good Gifts. You can choose the Magi, Little House on read the Bible. and patterns online. animals, health care, education, micro the Prairie Christmas, or loans and more! Your gift helps people A Midnight Clear: Family around the world. Christmas Stories. Do a Random 2 Act of Christmas Food pantries can be When you hang Kindness as a 5 Set out a child- especially low on food during Christmas lights, talk family each friendly nativity the holidays. Shop as a family about Jesus being the week of Advent. Jesus 6 7 for kids to play with and for items that your local food light of the wants us to care for others. reenact Jesus’ Birth. pantry needs the most. 8 world. Send a card or Make your nativity travel. Shepherds Make care package Remember our 11 watch their sheep near the manger, Mary puppets or 12 9 to those missionaries. Pray and Joseph travel closer to the manger each day. dress up & reenact serving in our for them, write a Jesus is born on Christmas. The shepherds hear the Christmas story! military. The holidays letter or send a gift. the good news, visit & return home praising God. Record it so you can are especially hard to be The wise men visit on Epiphany, Jan. 6. enjoy it years later. away from family. Give 10 them notes of Christmas Cook The wise men cheer and let them know Write notes of Christmas 16 brought Jesus gifts. appreciation for each you are praying for them. cookies Save a gift to open member of your family 14 Research or meal with on Epiphany Chrismon and put the notes in their recipes from other 17 Jan. 6th. Attend ornaments Christmas stockings. countries. Learn worship and make some for about Christmas Make together as 13 your Christmas tree. 15 traditions in that salt a family! country and pray 18 dough ornaments for the people Read Christ–centered Christmas stories. Read the with nativity who live there. 19 Wrap the books & put them under the 20 Christmas themes. tree. Open and read one each night. story together. Read accounts Invite Go to a nursing home from Matthew, Luke and Instead of a gingerbread house, make an edible someone and sing Christmas John. Each gospel tells the 21 nativity. 22 who is carols. Be sure to talk story in a different way. lonely, with the residents and On Christmas morning, run grieving, or away share the Good News of Make a birthday cake through the house shouting from their family to Jesus’ for Jesus and sing 24 Good News Jesus dinner at your house. birth! Happy Birthday! 23 is born! 25 Written by Lisa Kammerer, Associate in Ministry. Reproducible for church and personal use. .