Introducing: A Connected Christmas

I have always wanted the Christmas season to be beautiful and nostalgic for my children. My desire is for this season to mark their hearts with traditions and give them warm memories of togetherness in our home. Most of all, I want the Advent season to draw them to their Savior. Out of these desires, A Connected Christmas was born.

In this blog post I am sharing A Connected Christmas, a holiday advent curriculum for children.

In this blog post:

What is A Connected Christmas?
Peek inside A Connected Christmas
Christmas picture books for kids in A Connected Christmas
How to prepare for A Connected Christmas
More holiday curriculum from Treehouse Schoolhouse

What is A Connected Christmas?

A Connected Christmas is an invitation to gather your family and celebrate beauty and delight through festive carols, stories, poetry, art, baking, and handcrafts. This three-week advent study is about bring family together to share in the story of Jesus Christ. This family curriculum is about connecting hearts to the heart of Christmas: The truth of Jesus coming to earth to seek and save the lost.

A Connected Christmas is designed to be used with the whole family at the same time. It includes Bible, memorization, recitation, writing, stories, narration, and a plethora of beauty subjects (hymns, poetry, art, and handcrafts). A Connected Christmas was created for children kindergarten through 5th grade, but can easily be adapted for preschoolers and middle schoolers as well.

Each week your family will memorize a passage of scripture, worship together with a Christmas carol, enjoy a festive poem, and study a nativity-themed piece of art. Along with that, each day your family will read holiday picture books together and enjoy a coordinating handcraft or baking project that reiterates the story’s theme.

The foundation of the lesson time includes reading a passage of scripture aloud. These passages are studied in chronological order to complete the Biblical Christmas story by the end of the curriculum. Children orally narrate the passage and then complete a written narration in their “Christmas Story Narration Notebook.” Then they illustrate the day’s passage, completing a 15-page keepsake by the end of the season.

This guide is designed to be used five days a week for the three weeks leading up to Christmas, but can easily be moved around to fit into a four-day schedule or used as Morning Time plans.