4 Free Christmas Sunday School Lessons
Enjoy these 4 free Christmas Sunday school lessons — one for each Sunday leading up to Christmas.
Each lesson is from one of Group Publishing’s bestselling curriculum. It’s our gift to you! Enjoy!
Week 1: Prophets Foretell Jesus’ Coming
In this Christmas Sunday school lesson, kids learn how Jesus fulfilled God’s promise.
Kids will…
- play a fun game about making promises.
- discover the meaning of Jeremiah’s amazing prophecy.
- explore the Key Verse to find out that Jesus fulfilled God’s promise to send a Messiah, and that he promised to be with them.
- determine how keeping and not keeping promises affects them, and make promise cards to give to someone.
- choose a Daily Challenge to apply God’s Word.
- talk about how to share what they learned with their families.
Week 2: An Angel Appears to Mary
In this Christmas Sunday school lesson, kids learn that God uses ordinary people.
Kids will…
- decide whether to accept an assignment that leads to a risk, a reward, or both.
- play a musical game, and discuss Luke 1:26-38 and Matthew 1:18-21.
- read Luke 1:28-29 and 1 Samuel 16:7, and invent news stories about ways God might use kids.
- decorate posters showing ways that God can use ordinary people.
- read Luke 1:39-45 and 1 Thessalonians 5:11, and write encouraging notes to classmates.
- name things they’ll do for God and others.
Week 3: Jesus Is Born
In this Sunday school lesson, kids celebrate Jesus birth!
Kids will…
- pretend to be part of the planning committee for the very first Christmas celebration.
- sing “Glory to God.”
- read Luke 2:1-20 and pose as the person they most feel like at Jesus’ birth.
- play in an “air band” to celebrate Jesus’ birth.
- imagine giving the best gifts to celebrate God’s greatest gift.
Week 4: Jesus Is the Best Gift Ever
Kids will learn that Jesus was born and is the BEST gift they’ll get at Christmas or any time.
Kids will…
- take a census and travel to Bethlehem to experience Jesus’ birth.
- decide whether to keep or toss a set of gifts.
- make silhouette ornaments of the nativity.
- use a predictable grid to discuss why Jesus is the best gift ever.
- experiment with liquids to see that Jesus is the top gift.
- respond to the gift of Jesus with a thank-you gift.
- receive a take-home page about the lesson.
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I signed up for the magazine today and thought I was getting several free things looks like you only get a couple items depending on which part of the site you respond to. I wanted more on Christmas. Can I get the extra fee things?
Johnnie, you should have access to everything on the site. If you search for Christmas on the site, over 10 pages of results will come up. Let us know if you need anything.
Hello. The link to the 4th free lesson “Jesus the Best Gift Ever” does not work. We started using these series and I nees this lesson for this Sunday. I hope you can help me.
Good morning Beth! The 4th free lesson is a downloadable lesson. You can access it by going here:
https://childrensministry.com/go/Christmas-sunday-school-lesson
Blessings and Merry Christmas!
Rochelle
Hello, the link above to download this lesson does not work. I know this is almost a year old at this point but we were hoping to start this series in a few weeks. Is there a working link?
Hi Shannon, We’re working on getting this resolved. Thanks for pointing this out!
Lesson 4 is still not printing. Can you get me a copy?
Thanks for pointing that out, Connie! We’ll work on fixing the problem.
Hi Connie, Lesson 4 has been updated! Please let us know if you have any problems accessing this. Thank you for you patience!
Hello. I just tried (today 12/3/2017) to access lesson 4 and it is only the title and a picture. There is no content. If it could be emailed, that would be wonderful.
Thank you.
Hi Andi,
I just sent you the link. Thanks!
The Link to lesson 4 is still not working. Can it be emailed out? Thanks in advance!
Hi Amy, Lesson 4 has been updated! Thank you for your patience.
Hi again! As stated below…there is a picture but no lesson. Hoping it can be worked out as we were planning to use this next week! Thanks 🙂
Lesson 4 not working please email me a copy. Vicky
Hi Vicky, the link for lesson 4 has been updated! Please let us know if you have any further problems. Blessings!
Hi! I know you’re working on it – just wanted to mention that week 4 link is still not working. Thank you so much for this great resource! We are a tiny church and blessings like this are such an encouragement and a help!
Hi Leanne, thank you for your patience! The link for lesson 4 has been updated. If you have any further problems, please let us know. Blessings to you and your church!
Thank you so much for following up! I hate to be a pest, but I clicked on the link and there is a photo and title, but no lesson. I just know this lesson is going to be fantastic! 🙂
I am unable to access Christmas lesson 4. Can you help me out?
Hi Kathy, Here is the link for lesson 4: https://childrensministry.com/articles/sunday-school-lesson-for-christmas-jesus-best-gift/.
Are the links to these Christmas lessons still available, I am interested in them for the kids in my church’s Junior Church program
Hi Karen! If you click on the title of each section, it will take you to each lesson! Hope that helps!
I am very grateful for this free curriculum that will allow me to provide some sound and engaging activities to teach the Christmas message for the month. I need to print week 3, Jesus is Born, however, it will not print a lesson plan format. Can you help me?
I love these lessons. Unfortunately, I can’t get Lesson 3 to print. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Tracy! We’ve added a “Print this Lesson” link at the top of the Jesus is Born lesson. This will give you a PDF to print. Just note, the music embedded in the lesson will need to be played from the website.
Thank you so much for this!! I will be doing this lesson for this week’s Children’s Church and know the kids are going to absolutely love it 🙂
You’re welcome, Kimberly!
Our these 4 lessons still available? Do you have to sign up for the magazine to get them? If not, could I have the link for all 4 lessons
Hi Cheryl! The links are the titles of the lessons. Just go ahead and click on them and they will redirect you to the correct page!
Thank you! This is a great curriculum for kids. Substantive yet simple for them to understand.
You’re welcome, Shantail!
Great lesson,well appreciate
Hi, I am unable to access lesson 4. Is it available
Hi Danica. The link is still working for us. Here it is: https://childrensministry.com/christmas-sunday-school-lesson-jesus-is-the-best-gift-ever/
I am receiving an error message for the link to lesson 3: Jesus is born. Would it be possible to get this fixed or send a new link? Thank you.
Hi Katie. The link is working fine for us. Mind trying again? https://childrensministry.com/christmas-sunday-school-lesson-jesus-is-born/
The new link you sent worked, thank you very much!
The link for week 3: Jesus is born!, is not working. Can you send me a new link, please?
Hi Susanne! The link has been fixed!
The link in the article for lesson 3 is
https://childrensministry.com/jesus-is-born-sunday-school-lesson
which gives a “page not found error”.
The link that works has “sunday-school-lesson-” at the start, like the other links have:
https://childrensministry.com/sunday-school-lesson-jesus-born/
Cheers,
Ian.
Hi, Ian! The link should be working now. If not, try clicking here or possibly try opening it in a new browser. Hope this helps!
I need help finding a really good Christmas story do you have any good ideas at all that could help me at all
Hi Steven!
We have many Christmas story options here on our website. Here is a link to one of them for you to read: https://childrensministry.com/jesus-birthday-lesson/. You can find more by clicking on any of our header bar sections such as “Bible Lessons” or “Bible Activities and Sermons” and then filter to Christmas.
Heya.
In order to get everyone to be happy this is what I do. I hold a festive baking and cooking lesson each year. We cook turkey rolls, mince pies and cranberry sauce. The mini mince pies work well. Best wishes. I use plastic plates and spoons. I order tins to use.
I plan all the food quite carefully. I even happily bake so many cupcakes and biscuits to eat whilst we see a film or play a board game. Christmas lessons are fun. The children love to make pieces of festive art too. I offer them round.
I even have a party. Other dishes include a small Christmas cake, twelve buns and so on. Now I have a entire list of choices in addition to refer back to when planning. I find it much easier that way for sure. I love to do party planning after all. I love to bake stuff. I prefer to keep it on my bedside table. Every year we bake a tray of fun Christmas goodies and treats to eat.
The children simply also love to decorate the place too. We decorate the house in question with cool wreaths plus decorations. I stock up on the decorations and prizes. I find a lot of stuff at local charity shops. Toys make good prizes to use. So do storybooks. Medals are awarded for the best fancy dress.
I put seasonal art on my classroom walls each year. The children draw Santa and his reindeer for me to display. I frame it for the parents. They also draw the three wise men and learn a festive song. We have a mini concert. It lasts four hours. About half of the older children perform a short festive play. The little ones recite a quick poem, sing a timed Christmas song or retell a short festive story. There is seasonal food on sale. The money all goes to local charity shops or a church.
After the main concert is over, we sell reindeer cupcakes and Santa biscuits to raise more. I take the donations and have cups of mulled white or red wine plus a mini festive dinner with mini mince pies. Yummy.
Most will stay on for that after changing their outfits. On another day we have a festive day. For this we play board games, host various festive quizzes or sit and talk. After the donations are counted we have a sit down meal. That is fun. Always.
There are word searches available quite freely. And I do use them. Plus there are cheap colouring books. Last week we had our annual festive lucky dip and raffle. And there was a Santa biscuit decoration stall and a book sale. We sold lots of festive earrings and cups. Coffee and tea were also sold with lots of cheap festive rolls. We finally had a name the cat contest.
Events like this make it easier on me. Teaching is less work for sure. At our recent fun day I made hot chocolate, mini potato rolls and mini mince pies. There was a hot turkey soup and lots of roast veg. Leftovers were used to make bread rolls and a potato salad later that week.