As I said last week we are focusing in this first week of Advent on the story of The Nativity and have been reading our Nativity Book and looking at the story. So using some Nativity Stencils
We used crayons to colour in our stencils on white card. To keep the stencils in place I added a small piece of low tack sticky tape so that it wouldn’t slip whilst J coloured them in. As he coloured we talked about the images and what part they were in the story.
I then added text to the cards – although J can’t read yet, I want him to get used to “reading” text in different situations and also seeing me writing is good for pre-writing skills for him.
We then sat down and put the story into order. This is something that we have been doing again and again and I will be laminating the cards so that we can use them next year as well.
How are you reviewing The Nativity with your children this Christmas? Also come back on Friday when we will be sharing another Nativity Craft
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Oh I have an Nativity Pack (#2) coming out that has story sequence cards and scriptures so you can place them down and the kids can look at the cards and I can read the scriptures. I also have set so you can put the story in order! All coming on Friday.
We are doing small daily reading right now so we complete the story when it is the day of Christmas and also have the play Nativity set out.
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I like how you used the stencils to make story cards. We’ve been reading different books with the nativity story in it. My son connected most with The Birds of Bethlehem, a new book by Tomie dePaola. He tells the whole nativity story from the birds’ viewpoint.
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This is lovely!
We are doing a Jesse tree this year – first time, and I hope the kids like it!
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Oh this is great and very different to ours. I think the Nativity is very important.
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Love this! What a great way to look at the nativity.
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Maggy
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