Love Came Down Nativity PLAY MAT
This appliquéd and embroidered play mat folds up and the play pieces tuck inside the inner pocket. It includes the stable embroidered and appliquéd on the field of stars side of the mat. The play pieces include the Holy family with embroidered vocabulary words on the back, the three individual wisemen, with vocabulary and educational details about them embroidered on the back. The angel and donkey are embroidered. There are three sheep, the Shepard, a cow, an oxen and the camel. All play pieces have vocabulary words in block letters to encourage reading skills.
This play mat was created when my grandson moved across the ocean and wanted his nativity scene that was in storage for Christmas. He said he, his brother and baby sisters needed a “flat Jesus” to play with. As I was making mug rugs for a fundraiser, I made this for them to go on their dining table and pack up for yearly use and become an heirloom for my “untethered” grandson who always thinks outside the box.
The story that I wrote for them will be printed and sent with your nativity set.
This appliquéd and embroidered play mat folds up and the play pieces tuck inside the inner pocket. It includes the stable embroidered and appliquéd on the field of stars side of the mat. The play pieces include the Holy family with embroidered vocabulary words on the back, the three individual wisemen, with vocabulary and educational details about them embroidered on the back. The angel and donkey are embroidered. There are three sheep, the Shepard, a cow, an oxen and the camel. All play pieces have vocabulary words in block letters to encourage reading skills.
This play mat was created when my grandson moved across the ocean and wanted his nativity scene that was in storage for Christmas. He said he, his brother and baby sisters needed a “flat Jesus” to play with. As I was making mug rugs for a fundraiser, I made this for them to go on their dining table and pack up for yearly use and become an heirloom for my “untethered” grandson who always thinks outside the box.
The story that I wrote for them will be printed and sent with your nativity set.
This appliquéd and embroidered play mat folds up and the play pieces tuck inside the inner pocket. It includes the stable embroidered and appliquéd on the field of stars side of the mat. The play pieces include the Holy family with embroidered vocabulary words on the back, the three individual wisemen, with vocabulary and educational details about them embroidered on the back. The angel and donkey are embroidered. There are three sheep, the Shepard, a cow, an oxen and the camel. All play pieces have vocabulary words in block letters to encourage reading skills.
This play mat was created when my grandson moved across the ocean and wanted his nativity scene that was in storage for Christmas. He said he, his brother and baby sisters needed a “flat Jesus” to play with. As I was making mug rugs for a fundraiser, I made this for them to go on their dining table and pack up for yearly use and become an heirloom for my “untethered” grandson who always thinks outside the box.
The story that I wrote for them will be printed and sent with your nativity set.
Come, my children! Please gather around, so I can tell you the story of when God’s Love Came Down.
This happened many years ago, on a cold December night. The stars filled the dark sky when an angel came and filled the world with light.
Shepherds were out on the mountain side tending to their sheep, when the angel appeared from heaven with a secret too big to keep.
“Go to the town called Bethlehem, where a baby boy is born,” the angel told the Shepard. “In a stable, safe and warm, you’ll find a baby laying in a manger sheltered from a storm. He will be called the King of Kings. He is Jesus Christ, the Lord! God, the Father has sent Him to the world, to give us His Love forever; so we may live in heaven too when our days on earth are done. Go and find the child now, for He is God the Son.”
And so the Shepard took his sheep and walked outside the town. He followed the star that lit the sky to see where God’s Love came down.
I must tell you, Children, about Baby Jesus and His earthly family. How they were chosen by God to be the most Holy. For Joseph was a carpenter but his great grandfather was also a king. Joseph was poor and humble, a wonderful human being. He had chosen Mary, to be his wedded wife, when an angel appeared to her and God created Jesus which truly changed their life.
They too traveled to Bethlehem upon a donkey that Mary rode. They couldn’t find a place to sleep and so their story is told; that Mary gave birth to Jesus, that very night in the stable with all the animals near. The sound of the cattle lowing was the first song the baby boy would hear.
Now the Shepard was not the only one who was following the star. There were three other kings that traveled from very far. One was named Melchior, he was the eldest of the three. He came from Persia bringing Gold to give the small baby.
The second of the 3 Magi was known as Balthasar. He came from Arabia with Myrhh following the star.
Gaspar came from India, on a camel he did ride. His journey was the longest and a gift of Frankincense was at his side.
Each of these gifts have a special meaning, chosen by the 3 Wisemen with great care. They were gifts to give a King and foretold of God’s love there.
God sent His Son to save us, He sent His Love to earth. It is why we celebrate Christmas to spread the news of Jesus’s birth.
We bring out the Nativity to remind us of this story; the night when God sent Love down, in heavenly splendor for His glory! My children, how I love you and my story you too will share, for there is nothing you will ever know like having a loving friend in Jesus that you ever can compare.
