A GREAT CHRISTMAS



Divide the group into nine smaller groups and assign each group one of the words listed below. Read the story. After each of the words is read pause for the group to make the appropriate response.

SANTA CLAUS (Hold belly and laugh) "HO, HO, HO."
PRESENTS (Spread arms and shout) "A new bike."
GREETING CARDS (Throw up hands and say) "Hang 'em on the wall."
MOM AND DAD (Scold with finger) "You'd better be good."
HOLIDAY DINNER (Shrug shoulders, hold up hands saying) "Where's the beef?"
ANGELS Do "Twilight Zone" theme while flapping arms
DECORATIONS Sing "Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly!"
CHRISTMAS All sounds and parts at the same time.
SNOW (Wrap arms around yourself and go) "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"


My favorite holiday is CHRISTMAS___. I enjoy sending GREETING CARDS___, I enjoy a big HOLIDAY DINNER___, I enjoy the SNOW___, but most of all, I enjoy SANTA CLAUS___ bringing me lots of PRESENTS___.

The house is filled with DECORATIONS___. My favorite are silver ANGELS___. I help MOM AND DAD___ open the GREETING CARDS___, fix the HOLIDAY DINNER___, shovel SNOW___, wrap PRESENTS___, put up DECORATIONS___, and polish the silver ANGELS___. After we are finished, I leave out milk and cookies for SANTA CLAUS___ while MOM AND DAD___ clean up I can hardly wait until CHRISTMAS___ morning.

I race to the tree. I see SANTA CLAUS___ has left me lots of PRESENTS___, with little GREETING CARDS___ on them. He's put some new DECORATIONS___ on the tree, including some new silver ANGELS___, and he has sprinkled the branches with SNOW___. Of course, he has left some lovely grown-up gifts for MOM AND DAD___.

So we sit down to eat our HOLIDAY DINNER___ I turn on the radio and Frank Sinatra is singing "Hark the herald ANGELS___ Sing"! MOM AND DAD___ and I say grace and eat our HOLIDAY DINNER___ while the DECORATIONS___ twinkle all over the house. After dinner we look at the GREETING CARDS___ one more time, and then go out for an afternoon stroll in the falling SNOW___.


I tell you, that SANTA CLAUS___ is quite a guy. He sure knows how to turn out a great CHRISTMAS___.

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