Born is the King (It’s Christmas).” This is the video of a Christmas song from Hillsongs. A catchy tune and a bunch of kids running wild and crazy in the woods – what more do you want? They're based in convenient locations including supermarkets, newsagents and train stations. Plus they're often open late and on Sundays. The John Lewis Advert 2019” Ahh, go on – it’s the John Lewis advert! I’m sharing it because it is fun – but, also it is worth using to ask ourselves how inclusive is our Christmas? There has been a fantastic blog written by my friend Mark Arnold, “ Why Children with Additional Needs are like Edgar the Dragon”– give it a read [ here].

HOPE’s assistant director Rachel Jordan-Wolf says, ‘We are thrilled that copies of HOPE at Christmas magazine and the children’s booklet The Christmas Story will be given away in The Entertainer toy shops in the week before Christmas to help customers appreciate the reason for the season.’ PERFECT 1ST BIRTHDAY GIFTS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS - Our farm house toy is a fantastic present idea Ideal for baby showers, Christmas and first birthday gifts for girls and boys, our farm house playset will help the parents in your life teach their child about counting, colours and more with hands-on interactive fun the whole family can enjoy FISHER-PRICE FARMYARD PLAYSET - Our kids toys embody a deep rooted belief that play is the way children learn best As the 1 infant and preschool company in the world, we are the only kid brand committed to all the years between 0 and 5 From little moments to big milestones we’re dedicated to helping families throughout every age & stage The perfect way for little ones to learn about the Christmas story, recreate the Nativity scene with the adorable characters from this Happyland Nativity Set from Early Learning Centre.The Christmas Story.” Get ready to go “ooh” and “aaaah”, absolutely fantastic costumes and great storytelling from the children involved. Beautiful. Christmas According to Kids” I love this, possibly my favourite of all of these. It combines the natural voices of children – with all their quirks and humour – with adults acting out and letting the children “be” their voices. Brilliant and very funny. The Wellbeing Journey is a new 8-part video series, which will be ready for churches to launch at Christmas guest services online or in person. Jesus is ‘the Prince of Wholeness’ as The Message version translates Isaiah 9:6, so HOPE Together and partners KingsGate Church will have Christmas sermon ideas to help churches to invite friends, neighbours and colleagues to join the journey. Inspires imaginative play and can even be combined with other Happyland sets (Sold Separately) for even more make-believe fun The Mystery of the New Noisy Neighbour” A charming re-telling with cute animation, ideal for watching at home together – probably for ages 3-7ish.

Infants can also press the buttons on the top of the engine or push the light-up chimney to play fun songs, sounds and phrases that they’ll love listening to as they push the train along on its journey!

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This Fisher-Price train toy also comes with five exotic animal figures that are ideally sized for small hands to play with, helping to strengthen motor skills whilst your child moves the animal passengers in or out of the train. Great for inspiring your little one's imagination, and gift boxed to make the perfect present, children will love this Happyland set. Let's lift the angel into the sky and tell everyone a new baby has been born. Help the three wise men and the shepherd visit the precious baby Jesus with their gifts, as his parents Mary and Joseph look on with pride. I have collected a bunch of diverse, amusing, profound, reflective, clever, funny and off the wall “Christmas” videos . . . TWENTY in all. If you know of some other GREAT videos for use at Christmas – nativities, Christmas eve services, carols etc . . . do ADD a link in the comments section as it would be great to have more to recommend. Includes: 1 x Happyland Advent Calendar with 24 x Festive Figures, 1 x Santa, 1 x Reindeer, 1 x Gingerbread Man, 1 x Fairy, 1 x Girl, 1 x Robin, 1 x Sign, 1 x Elf, 1 x Boy, 1 x Rabbit, 1 x Table, 2 x Sledges, and 1 x Snowboard

The Gift” Another video from ‘Speak Life” who produced “Four Kinds of Christmas”. A humorous take on the passing on of gifts without really giving it any thought . . . Set contains: 1x Mary, 1x Joseph, 1x baby Jesus, 1x shepherd, 2x sheep, 3x wise men, 1x donkey and 1x angel Happyland Nativity” And, yet again . . . the Speak Life Team must be doing nothing else at the moment but making videos! This is wonderful and suitable for any age. Retooning The Nativity.” Used this a lot. A sparky animation, beautifully done. With humour the video highlights the discrepancies between our “passed down” traditions about the first nativity and what the Bible actually says.

Making the build-up to the big day extra-fun, each morning will be filled with excitement as you peel the door open on your calendar to reveal a brand-new Christmas figure. Bring all your pieces together to make the most festive scene. We can feed Santa Claus some Christmas pudding for tea and then go out for a ski or build a snowman as the dog plays in the snow!