Picture a Christmas: Take Pictures

When I started working on "Picture a Christmas" pg 50,  I thought I would use the "picture" idea to help the kids remember the words, maybe have them pretend to have cameras and click each time another scene is shown.  Or I was going to have camera outlines with pictures on each of the lens circles.

But I got a better idea that the kids enjoyed a lot.  I had paper flannel pieces for the nativity, so I took a series of pictures using these.  The first photo had just the stable.  On the 2nd photo I added the night sky, and so on.  I then put them into a slideshow on the laptop.  In primary I was able to click on each picture and they could watch each item being added to the nativity scene.  Junior Primary thought it was pretty amazing that each item just "appeared" as if by magic.
 

Picture a stable in Judea

Picture a sacred, silent night

And can you hear the angels near

and see the star so bright

Picture the little baby Jesus, think of his life and words so dear

Sing praise to Him

Remember Him, as you picture Christmas this year.

Picture the kind and gentle Joseph, picture the mother, Mary, fair

And can you see so reverently, the shepherds kneeling there.

  Also, one thing I made a point about was that the 1st verse is all about setting the scene of the outside (stable, night, angels, star).  The 2nd verse is all about putting the people inside the scene (Mary, Joseph, shepherds).  Jesus is in the chorus, which means he is the focus and center of it all.  It helped the kids understand how the song was set up, and that it had a logical progression.  It helped me too!