Light the World for Kids

Light the World for Kids 2023

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I am so excited for this year’s Light the World campaign as we prepare for Christmas. Check out the website for videos, downloads, and service ideas. The unique focus this year is to consider how to serve like 8 characters from the Nativity story. You can text LIGHT to 71234 to get text messages with information about each character and ideas to serve like them.

To make it a little more kid accessible I’ve taken the 8 characters (added one more for 9 total) and came up with service and activity ideas to go with each character.

My kids are currently 9, 7, and 3 and these Light the World activities have been a huge highlight each year. Below you will find links to a few options for the Light the Worlds for Kids Activity poster. I like to print it big to hang on the wall. If you haven’t discovered blueprint printing from Staples, you are missing out! I printed an 18×24 document for $3.40. Below you’ll find the links for my 18 x 24 activity poster, a blank 18 x 24 poster so you can fill in your own activities, or a document that has both in 8.5 x 11 if you want to just print them on your own at home.

I also created a very VERY simple Christmas journal. It’s 4 pages long. I like the idea of journaling, but I dislike the idea of making Christmas activities stressful. I also wanted something that could be meaningful for all age groups without feeling like a school assignment. Each page has a very simple prompt with a couple lines to write and then plenty of room to draw or write more, whatever floats each kids’ boat. Keep scrolling past all the Light the World poster options to download it.

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! I hope this helps you and your family as we all work together to Light the World!

Light the World for Kids 2023 18 x 24

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Light the World for Kids 2023 18 x 24 Blank

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Light the World for Kids 2023 8.5 x 11

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Christmas Journal

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Light the World for Kids 2022

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Oh man, it has been a long time. But I’m back at it for a quick Christmas post.

This year’s Light the World campaign is a bit simpler than years past with just a list of 50 simple suggestions to spread light and cheer.

50 is more than I can handle right now, and I wanted something geared more towards my kiddos needs and abilities to participate. So I put together my own simplified list with 17 ways to Light the World. I also made a blank one if you wanna fill in your own with some of my ideas and other things that work for you.

I have recently discovered the awesome ability to print things on GIANT paper using a printing service. Through Staples it’s called a blueprint under their document printing, I believe other services may refer to it as engineering prints. It’s regular paper, not a poster (read lots cheaper than a poster), but you can print it real big and put it up on your wall so the kids can see and enjoy it better than a little 8.5×11. I’ve been doing this with a quarterly calendar and bucket list since the beginning of the summer and they love it. I printed my Light the World as an 18x 24 but you can go as big as 36×48.

– Tell Christmas jokes

– Learn to say Merry Christmas in a different language

– Make a card for someone far away

– Gingerbread stables

– Temple lights

– Donate food

– Donate a toy/book

– Sing Christmas songs

– Spend time with friends

– Nativity movie night

– Read a Christmas book

– Live Nativity

– Celebrate miracles (Hannukah)

– Giving Machine

– Christmas Devotional

– Christmas Sequencing (3 part sequencing for little littles) (6 part for pre-school- first grade) Older kids could cut and glue pictures from magazines

– Bethlehem Dinner (we eat Middle Eastern food for Christmas Eve reminiscent of the types of food Jesus would have eaten)

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