12 Days of Christmas, Day 3, Christmas Storytelling Blocks

If I don't pick up the pace here, we will never get through these 12 Days of Christmas friends, but I am trying!!  

I have to say I am a bit in love with today's idea and wish I would have thought of it when my kids were little.  These Christmas storytelling blocks will make a great gift for the wee ones in your life.  As a former teacher I know that having kids retelll stories and having them put parts of a story in order is a fantastic learning exercise. 

I started with eight pallet wood scrap blocks, sanded well.

After painting the squares light blue, I used chalk to draw simple images to go along with the story of Jesus's birth.

Here are the blocks before I cleaned them up (wiped off the chalk, sanded off a few mistakes).  If you don't feel like you can paint simple images, use free clipart and decoupage pictures on the blocks.

I then printed out the Christmas story in eight simple parts. You can hopefully click and print it from HERE.

I decoupaged these onto the back of each corresponding square.  I used the decoupage glue all over the squares to seal them.

Put them in a bowl or basket and read them to your children.

Before long, the kids will be playing with the squares, retelling the Christmas story by themselves. 

And because one reader said they want to see updated pictures of our old schoolhouse, here is a shot of the library right now.

Did you know in my book there is a chapter on what to do with scrap pallet pieces like the ones I used here for this project?  BUY the book HERE!