Happy Birthday Jesus

Jen put together the idea of having a Happy Birthday Jesus party in our neighborhood. She handed out invitations to all the houses on our street, worked with 2 of our neighbors to put together the activities and supplies, and God provided a nice sunny day. We had a little over 20 kids attend. Below, you will see one of the activities where Jen narrated the Christmas story with the different kids playing the parts.

The kids also put together a candy cane as a craft with the story of what the candy cane means attached to it and finally the kids went over and played a couple of games including the reindeer hokey pokey. After all the kids rotated through all the activities, they came together to sing happy birthday to Jesus (who had no problem blowing out the candle) and the kids got to have refreshments.

All in all it was a lot of fun and we got to meet a couple of new neighbors that we hadn't met before. I'm sure it will become an annual activity.