Felt Nativity Story Board
This tradition is one that I borrowed from my brother-in-law Nate, although each family had some tradition that was very similar in its origins.
Every year on Christmas Eve Nate said that his family gathered around and told the story of Christmas using a felt nativity board. Each part of the story was told with verses from Luke 2 and each character (I know that's not the right word but I can't think of the right one) was represented.
This is the advent calendar that I bought at Deseret Book this year. It has all of the pieces, including the star and the stable animals, so that we can tell the story of the nativity with all matching pieces.
In years past my mom has even gone as far as wrapping each of the pieces of the nativity and having us open a "present" to read a set of scriptures on that nativity piece and then sing a song related to their part of the story.
Jon's family also has the fun tradition of acting out the story and somehow always joking that the baby Jesus falls out of the manger. It comes from a family video when the kids were tiny where none of them can stop laughing to tell the story.
Tomorrow we will have fun with The Elf on the Shelf.
This tradition is one that I borrowed from my brother-in-law Nate, although each family had some tradition that was very similar in its origins.
Every year on Christmas Eve Nate said that his family gathered around and told the story of Christmas using a felt nativity board. Each part of the story was told with verses from Luke 2 and each character (I know that's not the right word but I can't think of the right one) was represented.
This is the advent calendar that I bought at Deseret Book this year. It has all of the pieces, including the star and the stable animals, so that we can tell the story of the nativity with all matching pieces.In years past my mom has even gone as far as wrapping each of the pieces of the nativity and having us open a "present" to read a set of scriptures on that nativity piece and then sing a song related to their part of the story.
Jon's family also has the fun tradition of acting out the story and somehow always joking that the baby Jesus falls out of the manger. It comes from a family video when the kids were tiny where none of them can stop laughing to tell the story.
Tomorrow we will have fun with The Elf on the Shelf.
No comments:
Post a Comment