Nativity Wreath
Christmas for me as a child wasn’t just about the Santa stuff, we also learnt about the Nativity and this is something that I really want J and T to learn about Christmas as well, the true meaning behind it. So we’re doing some activities and crafts to go with the Nativity story and what Christmas really means.
We have a Usbourne Christmas Story Book which takes the story down to J’s level and is reinforcing the preparations the preschool are doing for the Christmas Nativity next week. Today we sat down with the book and read through it and then got crafty with a Nativity Wreath Kit from Yellow Moon.
The kit has 2 different wreaths to create and J decided to create a circle wreath. It was great as we went through the characters and made each up we were able to talk about their role in the Nativity.
We’re going to add the Wreath to our Christmas Window as well as some other crafts and activities over the next few weeks.
Cerys Parker
Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, teacher, mum, and home educator from the UK. She loves getting creative, whether it is with simple and easy crafts and ideas, activities to make learning fun, or delicious recipes that you and your kids can cook together you'll find them all shared here on Rainy Day Mum.
Hi I am a teacher in Australia and I was wondering do you have a template (digital) for the characters going on the wreath (i.e: Mary, Joseph, kings, shepherd, etc) that I would be able to purchase. I want to do a craft activity with my grade one class and this would be the perfect activity for them to do.
Hoping you can help!!
Regards,
Ash
Hi Ash,
I’m really sorry I don’t any more – but when I take it out again this year to hang I’ll be sure to deconstruct them and get the pattern down – in the mean time this could work with paper/card to use on the wreath. http://www.littlebitfunky.com/2014/11/twenty-minute-crafter-finger-puppet.html Cerys
PS Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Lovely craft!
I agree I think it’s important that they learn about the Nativity. That is a cute wreath.
what a lovely nativity craft