My children drew a Bethlehem scene from the nativity story in the Bible. They could choose any of the scenes from the birth of Jesus found at the beginning of the books of Matthew and Luke. My favorite rendition of the nativity story is from Luke 2. My father used to read the story to us each Christmas Eve before opening gifts.
Linus in the Peanuts cartoon told this story from the book of Luke:
An angel appeared to Mary, telling her that the Holy Spirit would cause her to conceive and give birth to the Son of God. While Mary was trying to figure out how to explain the situation to Joseph, an angel appeared to Joseph, telling her that Mary was going to give birth to Jesus, and that she had conceived through the Holy Spirit.
Here is a drawing that one of my sons decided to choose for his scene of the nativity story. The angel appears to Joseph in a dream.
Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem, where they give birth to a son and place Him in a manger, because there was no room at the inn. That’s because there were a lot of people in town for the census.
Angels appeared to the shepherds in the fields outside of Bethlehem, and the shepherds ran to find baby Jesus. They bowed down and worshipped Jesus, and Mary and Joseph must have marvelled when the shepherds described the choir of angels announcing the birth of their baby.
Here are a couple of ways to experience the Bethlehem scene in a hands-on way:
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Tags: Bible, Bible class, nativity, New Testament, Sunday School
Hi Susan,
Great post 🙂 Always enjoy reading……thanks for sharing such an awesome subject!
Jesus is the best subject of all time!
This is awesome. I am so glad there are bloggers out there who are willing to post stuff about teaching the bible to kids!
The Bible is the most important subject to teach kids!