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Here’s fairly simple, no-prep activity<\/strong> to help your children learn about or review the Bible’s account of Jesus’s birth.<\/p>\n In a translation your children can understand, read<\/strong> Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 2:1-20; and Matthew 2:1-15. If your children are very young, you might choose to read a storybook about the birth of Jesus instead of .<\/p>\n Then have a little Christmas scavenger hunt<\/strong>. You can do this all together as a group, or you can divide the children into two teams. You could also let each child individually hunt for items and see who can find them all the fastest.<\/p>\n Have the children look for items that relate to each of the following people and places in the Christmas story:<\/p>\n There’s room for creativity with this game. They can bring you anything that relates to each part of the story. It might be an angel from one of your nativity sets, a stuffed animal lamb, some straw, a plastic donkey, or some rags to wrap around baby Jesus.<\/p>\n If your children can read<\/strong>, give them a written list of the items they need to find. Then let them see how fast they find them all.<\/p>\n If your children can’t read<\/strong>, simply tell them the first item to look for. When they bring that one to you, tell them what the next item is.<\/p>\n When they have found everything on the list, have them retell the Christmas story<\/strong> to you, using the things they have gathered as props.<\/p>\n If you want, finish up the hunt with some cookies and milk, a good Christmas video, or some read-aloud time together.<\/p>\n\n