Advent and Christmas Support Material
The following selection of resource material includes a variety of activities, stories, music and pictures along with suggested approaches. Produced by Barnabas in Schools.
All worksheets come with full photocopy permission to use.
Support material
Exploring the background to Advent
- Exploring Advent - KS1 and 2
- Advent activities - KS 1 and 2
Telling the Story
- Christmas - for Foundation.
- The Innkeeper's Boy - for Foundation
- With Love From Me to You - for Foundation
- Advent - for KS1
- The Second Coming - for KS2
Activities
- The Birth of Jesus is Announced - for KS2
- Nativity Crib - for KS2
- A Christmas Garland - for KS2
Ideas
- Angels, angels everywhere - discussion on the significance and symbolism of angels for KS1
- A Special Birthday - talking about Christmas as a birthday party with Foundation
- The Giving of Gifts - discussing the visit of the wise men with KS2
The following ideas from the Barnabas in Churches website may also be useful:
- The Cross and the Crib - presenting the Christmas story within the context of Jesus' life as a whole school assembly
- Introducing Advent - powerpoint presentation to use with the whole school
- The Twelve Days of Christmas - a new version of the carol, telling the Christmas story
- The Sound of Christmas - an assembly idea celebrating Jesus' arrival through sound
- The Meaning of Christmas - collective worship using the nine letters of Christmas to make associated words
- Christmas in a Suffering World - an assembly idea for KS2
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