What is Slow Down Christmas?
It is all about a slow Christmas gathering with your family, making meaningful connections, leaving a lasting impact, while remembering that accumulation, busy chaos, and overdoing is so far from the holiday season that will lead us all back to the manger.
Slow Down Christmas is a refocusing on the peace that only Jesus can provide while exploring how your family can grow together and then spread that joy outward.
This is not just another Christmas curriculum... it is an opportunity to change the Christmas culture from within, one reading, one slow invitation at a time.
Slow down to celebrate, slow down to welcome in this Christmas.
The following DIGITAL PDF files are included:
Slow Down Christmas Parent Guide
Slow Down Christmas ESV Bible Verse- 25 Day Collection (over 100 pages with daily Bible reading and study, memory verse, hymn, prayer, and art study on every single day, some days have additional supportive materials)
Slow Down Christmas KJV Bible Verse- 25 Day Collection (over 100 pages)
(same as ESV)
Slow Down Christmas Book-A-Day- 25 Day Collection (over 190 pages)
(daily living book reading with LINKS to view online, character study with art prints, discussion, application with supporting printables, slow invitations, coloring pages and worksheets every day, also included some days are puppet printables, ornament printables, composer study, nativity play story scene with cut apart characters)
Slow Down Christmas Bible Verse Cards ESV
Slow Down Christmas Bible Verse Cards KJV
Slow Down Christmas Book-Themed Hand-Drawn Coloring Pages (FULL page and countdown cards)
Slow Down Christmas Affirmation Cards
Slow Down Christmas Invitation (Advent) Cards
Slow Down Christmas Countdown (Number) Banners and Cards
Slow Down Character Display Prints
Slow Down Wreath Bingo Game for up to 8 players
Youtube links for most books on this list are included OR you can purchase each book new or used or check these out from your local library to use with the lessons:
BOOKLIST:
Book 1: The Miracle of Saint Nicholas by Gloria Whelan
Book 2: The Queen and the First Christmas Tree: Queen Charlotte's Gift to England by Nancy Churnin
Book 3: The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson
Book 4: Cranberry Christmas by Wende Devlin
Book 5: Christmas Farm by Mary Lyn Ray
Book 6: The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
Book 7: Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
Book 8: The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
Book 9: The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller by Gideon Sterer
Book 10: The Friendly Beasts by Tomie DePaola
Book 11: The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats
Book 12: Mouse's Christmas Gift by Mindy Baker
Book 13: Night Tree by Eve Bunting
Book 14: Mary's First Christmas by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Book 15: The Nutcracker by Jan Brett
Book 16: The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston
Book 17: The Candymaker's Gift by Helen Haidle
Book 18: The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
Book 19: An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
Book 20: The Baker’s Dozen by Heather Forest
Book 21: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S Buck
Book 22: Apple Tree Christmas by Trinka Hakes Noble
Book 23: The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
Book 24: Angela's Christmas by Frank McCourt
Book 25: Silent Night by Lara Hawthorne
