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Gingerbread Christmas: a Christmas Event Guide for Children's Ministry EVENT CATEGORY: Christmas SPIRITUAL HABIT: Spend Time with Others AGE GROUP: Elementary & Preschool For a well-rounded and holistic approach to your ministry events, there are 10 different kinds of events we recommend including in your annual event strategy. The category for this event is a CHRISTMAS EVENT. This type of event is focused on celebrating together! Through fun, games, and sharing the Christmas story, kids and teenagers practice the spiritual habit of spending time with others. The holidays have a way of pulling families in a hundred different directions, and A Gingerbread Christmas is the perfect reason to pull them all back together. This is a wholefamily event where kids, parents, and grandparents play alongside each other all night long. It opens with a window of arrival activities, like a candy guessing contest at the welcome table plus a handful of quick, self-guided stations, before transitioning into a series of all-play games run together as a group. The night builds toward its big finish: every family decorates their own gingerbread house together, complete with the gingerbread person they made earlier in the evening. From the first game to the last gumdrop, everything is designed to give families a reason to laugh, compete, and create something they'll actually take home. All our events are built to be flexible! You can customize this event to your ministry's needs, but here's how we recommend using this one: Do this fun, outreach event at church using all-play games, crafts, teaching, and more!

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