Below is a collection of faith at home activities for Christmas. Use this list to inspire your own activities, choosing things which really work for your family. Here are Some articles to help you choose the activities which are right for your family:

• Preparing for a Covid-19 Christmas
• A new type of Christmas
• How to do faith at home at Christmas

Here’s the mega-list of Christmas activities:

Things to do each day in Advent

• Fill some Advent pockets

• Discover 25 ways to be thankful

• 24 candle prayers

• Wrap up 24 Christmas books

Candles

• Make your own Advent candle

• Simply pray with a candle

• Make an Advent wreath and use it to pray

Playing

• Play with your nativity set or like this

• Put on your own nativity play at home!

• Tell the story with your nativity set

• Make a lego nativity

There’s no right or wrong way to do this! Use instructions or ad-lib – do it your way!

Exploring with art

• Explore nativity art

• Explore the story with Christmas cards

• Enjoy an Advent Art meditation

• Relax with some Advent colouring

You can get an A3 version of this colouring poster along with loads of other activities in the Christmas edition of Faith at home

Making things

• Make some washi tape art

• Cut out your own geometric Christmas fuzzy-felt

• Make a lollystick stable

• Make and give clay ornament blessings

• Make a painted peg doll nativity

• Get messy with some angel prints

• Decorate your home with angel bunting or like this

Games

• Play Christmas card bingo

• Have fun making a nativity photo booth

Food

• Build a gingerbread nativity

• Bake angel jam tarts

• Eat yummy fruit and pray with satsuma prayers

Research

• Research Saint Nicolas

Challenge

• Take the Big Christmas story challenge

Great books

• Enjoy this great Christmas story book: Jesus was a refugee and this one

Making story books

• Make a Minion Mary book

• Create your own nativity story book