Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

With only a few days to go before Christmas, here is the new Nativity Story Bag I've made up with lots of things to help to explore the characters and events... Nativity peg figures (see how to make them here ) 3 boxes to represent the gifts of the wise men felt stars a variety of hearts to help think about God's love a crown a selection of Nativity themed Christmas cards A story book- here I've included the brilliant  Touchy Feely Nativity  by Fiona Watt A background cloth Have fun!

Here is a reflective colouring page based around the Nativity story.  Although the Wise Men who follow the star don't actually appear in Luke's gospel, where the verse is from, I felt that the star was also a reflection of God's glory! Click here to print off the page and enjoy colouring!

I'm so excited to have Victoria from GodVenture contributing a guest post with a Nativity theme! Her site has some brilliant prayer and devotional ideas for children and families and she has written some great books to help the family celebrate Jesus together.  Be sure to check out GodVenture ! Here's what Victoria has to share... I’m always looking for different ways to play with the nativity story, and since I have two girls under five who love dressing things, I thought this would be fun for them. It’s DIY fuzzyfelt, and it only took me about 30 minutes to make! All you need is: Felt Sharp scissors for cutting felt A big piece of card or board for your backdrop Masking tape I started by taping a huge piece of grey felt to my board. They were a little concerned that the grey wasn’t a nice colour, but I knew the other brighter colours would look good on it. You don’t have to use grey of course, and you could make your board out of different piec...

This is the second play dough mat in the Nativity story series I am putting together: Angels and Shepherds! Print out the mat, laminate it for future uses and get creatively thinking about peace on earth... Click here to print out the mat.