As part of our seven weekly devotionals before Christmas, one is based on the shepherds. While we have a shepherds night typically on Christmas Eve, this is a separate devotional we do three Sunday's before Christmas to help us focus all season long on Christ. We learn about the shepherds, put the shepherd in the nativity scene and do an activity that has to do with the Shepherds.
This year we focused in on how the shepherds didn't just keep the good news to themselves, they went and spread the good news all over. So we decided, (ok so really it was I decided) it would be a good idea to deliver neighborhood gifts on this night, and to make sure they too spread the good word.
You can't really tell by this picture, but we got HUGE candy canes, and put the legend of the Candy Cane on it. We then took it around.
You can find many versions of the legend of the candy cane, some short, some long, some stories, some poems. My favorite is J is for Jesus, a board book with a cute poem in it. My sister really likes The Legend of the Candy Cane, they read it every year too. I found a shorter version on the internet and just printed it up and tied it on to each Giant Candy Cane.
We came home and warmed up by drinking candy cane hot cocoa and reading J is for Jesus. It was a splendid evening.
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