A Gentle + Classical Christmas is a 4-week Christmas unit study for your entire family, featuring living picture books, hands-on activities, scripture and catechism memory, Christmas hymns, Bible reading plans, family liturgical-style prayers, a Christmas tradition menu, a Nativity storyboard, and so much more! You'll find ways that all of your family members can be engaged in this Christmastide guide!
Who's it for?
As mentioned above, this guide has content that works for your two-year-old to your grandmother. No one is too old for crafts, recipes, Christmas hymns, or excellent picture books that tug at the heartstrings and make us yearn from simpler times!
What's included (CURRICULUM)?
The 4 units of A Gentle + Classical Christmas includes:
- Catechism (Christmas-focused)
- Scripture memory
- Christmas Poetry
- Christmas Hymns
- Living Book selections
- Daily Scripture reading (3 options, but our custom plan has the scripture readings as a pretty printable)
- 4 weeks of Christmas Through Scripture reading with a beautiful watercolor storyboard
- Memory Statement cards for Catechism and scripture
- Hymn sheet music and Poetry designed so you can slide them into a menu
- 4 multi-age handicrafts
- Acts of kindness each unit
- Prompts for story discussions
- Modifications for the crafts
- Additional exploration ideas for each unit
- Christmas tradition menu
- Christmas book menu
- Simple math activities
- Christmas scavenger hunt
The entire program is 99 pages long.
The PRINT VERSION includes a saddle-stitched, 36-page guide and a stack of 63 pages of printables including the memory statement cards, storyboard, etc.
What's included (SUPPLY KIT)?
Each of the four units in A Gentle + Classical Christmas includes a family handicraft or recipe. Our supply kit DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY FOOD ITEMS. (Note that some items like the plastic sewing needle and doughnut pan have varying colors.)
For convenience, you can find the following items for each unit craft:
Unit 1(fruit or popcorn garland):
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1mm cotton string- 6ft (fruit garland)
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Large eye embroidery needle (fruit garland)
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Thin sewing thread- 6ft (popcorn garland) and needle
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2 bags of microwavable popcorn
Unit 2 (doughnuts):
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Silicone 6-doughnut pan
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Sturdy recipe card
Unit 3 (apple butter):
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Sturdy recipe card (back of doughnut card)
Unit 4 (beeswax rolled candles):
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3 beeswax sheets (enough for 6 - 4" candles)
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36" wick (6 candles)
ADDITIONAL BONUS: 25 Days of Christmas Countdown Cards including scripture and beautiful watercolor illustrations (4"x6" cards). The style of these cards were updated for 2023 and are reflected in the third image.
Book List + Supplies
You can click HERE to download the book list and supply list for this guide.
We've created a convenient spreadsheet of Youtube read alouds of the primary scheduled books which can be found linked in your digital dropbox after purchase fo the curriculum.