Christmas Prompts
SHARON’S BLOGAn edict. A carol. A strange decoration. What do all these have in common? They are all part of our fun Christmas prompts. Enjoy these prompts created especially for 5th – 12th graders. Ho, ho, ho, and away we go . . .
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Give the Gift of Yourself This Christmas
SHARON’S BLOGDo your children and teens wish they could communicate better with the special people in their lives? Sometimes it’s hard to talk or to come up with something brilliant to say. Other times they may have trouble connecting with family members. At this time of year, they may be wondering what to give that…
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Poignant Christmas Memories
SHARON’S BLOG Do you have Christmas season memories you hold dear? Here are a few of mine: The year my mother saved her hard-earned cake-decorating money to buy a sewing machine for me when I was a college freshman. Little did I know that I would use that machine to sew little outfits for my…
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A Christmas Carol Born from Pain
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Henry was a poet and a literature professor. He had a wife. He had children. He had a solid reputation, and his poetry was popular. And then his world caved in. One spring, his country became embroiled in a civil war. Families were split apart. Bands of thieves roamed the country, ostensibly…
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There’s a Song for That!
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS Think back to that first Christmas. Sometime after Mary was visited by an angel, she traveled to her cousin Elizabeth’s house. Elizabeth, an old woman, was finally expecting her first child, and when she heard Mary’s greeting, she reported that her unborn baby “leaped in her womb” (Luke 21: 41 NIV). Elizabeth…
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Dylan Thomas: His Christmas Memories and Yours
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS What is your favorite Christmas memory? Dylan Thomas, a famous poet and author, wrote about his Christmas memories in the memoir essay “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” in which he remembers friends, toys, hijinks, relatives, and traditions of his childhood. His love of words and of the language makes this memoir a…
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The Christmas Account from a New Perspective
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You are probably very familiar with the accounts of Jesus’ birth found in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2:40. They are written in the omniscient point of view. That is, the writers tell us everything about everyone. What if you read the account from the perspective of one of the Magi? Would the…
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Your Turn to Give for Christmas
What would you put in a donation box or on a public Christmas tree for others less fortunate than yourself? Make a list or write a story.
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‘Tis the Season for Giving
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Charitable organizations need help and often ask for money around Christmas and at the year’s end. You may be familiar with the bell ringers of the Salvation Army and their red buckets near store entrances. The Salvation Army, the Red Cross, police and firefighter organizations, local food pantries, and local homeless shelters…
