Slow Down Christmas

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