Tag: Christmas

  • Christmas in Iceland

    Christmas in Iceland

    I attempted to recreate Christmas in Iceland, and very quickly discovered I do not have the necessary baking skills.  So this became a slightly less aggressive set of Homeschool Christmas and geography lesson, and instead focused a bit more on the spirit of the activity. Christmas in Iceland So, an Iceland tradition is to make…

  • Gingerbread Man lesson

    Gingerbread Man lesson

    As part of our Christmas in Germany unit, we read The Gingerbread Man. There are so many great copies of this book you can find (I’m somewhat partial to the Jan Brett version), but for this particular unit, since we were studying Germany, I stuck with the original tale; besides, it made a great homeschool…

  • Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night

    Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night

    If you haven’t read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, then you need to right now.  You will not regret it. As soon as I found out it was a book and a movie, I had to do this. HAD TO.  I listed it as one of my favorites on my Christmas books post last year.…

  • Christmas Story bracelet and poem

    Christmas Story bracelet and poem

    Years ago I shared about our Christmas Story bracelet we made for our Sunday School class. Well, I’ve changed a few things. The general Christmas story bracelet is staying the same, but I decided to add a poem for the kids to take home. This has been wildly popular with the kids in my Sunday…

  • Jesse Tree game

    Jesse Tree game

    Whenever I get a new Bible lesson I like to look and see other ways I can use or teach the same item. So, I’ve been playing around with different ways to use my Jesse Tree ornaments I made, and this is the third way (obviously the first way is just as ornaments). We’re going…