Object Lesson - Gift Wrapped Christmas

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Object Lesson
- Gift
Wrapped
Christmas
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We are attracted by extravagantly
wrapped gifts with red bows and
colorful paper. But its not the
wrapper we treasure but the gift.
Sometimes the wrapper might give
clues as to what is inside but
sometimes the gift inside is a
complete surprise and totally
unexpected. The gift of the first
Christmas was not wrapped the way
the world expected either. The Jews
wanted a mighty warrior with a
sword in one hand and King’s crown
in the other. But instead, God sent
his greatest gift – an innocent,
defenseless, vulnerable baby,
wrapped in cloths, not wrapping
paper.

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Games using Wrapping Paper
All Wrapped Up – Tear up various
types of Christmas wrapping paper
and place it inside a large sheet.
More is better. There are two
rounds to this game. In the first
round, each group wraps one of its
members in masking tape (STICKY
SIDE OUT) from ankles to just below
their arms. Arms should NOT be
wrapped. Be sure to emphasize
STICKY SIDE OUT. The first team to
completely wrap up their teammate
in making tape with no cracks
whatsoever wins.

In Round two, first, throw all the
torn up wrapping paper on the
floor of the playing area and then
teams work to roll the wrapped
player in as much wrapping paper
as possible. After a couple of
minutes, tell teams to stop. Award
the team with the most wrapping
player stuck to their teammate. Be
sure to take group photos!

Christmas dice gift exchange –
Have everyone sit in a circle and
start with a gift. Play a Christmas
carol while 1-3 dice are being
passed around (space them out).
Each person rolls and passes the
dice. If they roll a six, they can
trade gift wrapped packages with
whomever they want. At the end
of the song, everyone keeps the
package in front of him or her.

Christmas Unwrap – Wrap a gift with
several layers of paper and heavy duty
tape to make it difficult to unwrap.
Youth line up and then must roll
doubles six on a pair of dice, run to a
baseball bat, spin 5 times around the
bat, then go to the gift and put on a
woolhat, snow / ski gloves and then
begin to unwrap the present – first to
do so wins the prize. As soon as they
get to the present the next person can
start rolling the dice to start the
process again. When someone new
gets to the present, they first person
must stop, remove the clothing items
and then run back to the end of the
line. The youth who successfully
unwraps the gift gets to keep it.

Christmas Wrap Up – You’ll need a
lot of wrapping paper, some tape,
and a bow for each team. The
objective is to be the first team to
completely wrap someone up and
place a bow on their head like a
giant Christmas present. Be sure
that your students do not forget to
make a gift tag written to whom the
present is for and from. You can
have an award for the most
completely wrapped as well as the
most creative and best wrapped. Be
sure to take some photos along the
way.

Christmas Wrapping Paper
Match – Cut out squares from
several different patters of
Christmas wrapping paper. You
want to have one square for each
person in your group. Place them
all in box with a small hole cut in
the top. You’ll also want two of the
squares to be identical in design
and pattern but make all the others
different. Fold each square and
place it inside the box. Let each
youth pick one square. Once
everyone has a square announce,
that the first two people to find
matching squares will win a prize.

Gift Ball – Save used wrapping paper,
bubble wrap, cardboard, plastic, and
packaging bits to create a ball. To
create the gift ball, begin by wrapping
a small prize or even money in a piece
of used gift wrap. Layer on additional
wrap and packaging bits to create a
ball, securing it tightly. If you are short
of gift wrap you can also use
magazines, plastic bags, newspaper,
and other things you have around the
house. Add a few layers of these
between the layers of wrapping paper.
You can secure the layers with any
kind of tape, yarn, string, and leftover
ribbon bits, etc. You can add candy
and small gifts to the ball in a bonus
layers as you go along.

The more the merrier so that
everyone has a chance to get
something. The bigger the ball, the
better, especially if you have a large
group. To play, have the youth group
members sit in a circle with the gift
ball and a pair of dice. One youth
begins unwrapping the ball as fast as
he can while the player to his left rolls
the dice repeatedly until he gets a 7.
When he does, the ball is passed to
him to unwrap, and the dice are
passed to the next player. Tearing off
layers and dice-rolling continues until
someone finally reaches the prize and
claims it as the winner. You can make
it more challenging by making the
player wear winter gloves.

Gift Guess – Gift wrap a variety of
common objects and place tags on
them with numbers (socks,
ornaments, a candy cane, holly,
pinecones, bells, an angel, Jesus in a
manger, a can of eggnog, a Santa hat,
a reindeer, a cookie, and any other
common Christmas items you can find.
Pass the gifts around and give each
person a small amount of time to feel
the gifts and make their guesses as to
what’s inside each. Give them a piece
of paper to number and write down
their guesses. The youth that make
the most correct guesses are the
winners.

Gift wrap Relay – Cut up the front
pictures of several old Christmas
Greeting cards and hide each piece in
a separate box. Gift Wrap the boxes.
Divide the youth into two or more
teams and put the pile of wrapped
boxes on a table at the other end of
the room. You’ll need to have one set
of boxes and one picture for each
team. The first player in each team
runs to the table, unwraps a present,
grabs his picture piece and sprints
back to his next teammate. The rest of
the team has a turn until all the pieces
of the picture have been unwrapped.
The teams then need to race to
assemble and correctly identify their
picture. The first team to do this wins!

Gift Wrap Snowball Fight – Take a
bunch of used wrapping paper and
wad it up into balls. Divide the
room in half or quarters so that
you have a team in each section.
Dump the wadded up wrapping
paper in the middle of the room.
On go, youth toss the balls of
wrapping paper at each other and
into other sections as quickly as
they can. When time is up the
team with the least amount of
wrapping paper in their section
wins.

Penguin Gift Race – Divide the
youth into two teams. Have players
at the start of the line put a gift
wrapped box between their knees
and waddle to a designated spot
and back. The next in line does the
same until all youth have had their
turn. If the gift is dropped, they
must return to start and begin
waddling again. The team that
finishes first wins.

Siamese Twin gift-wrapping race –
For this Christmas game you’ll need
to have a box, wrapping paper,
scissors and tape for each team.
Divide your youth group into pairs
who will stand side by side with
one hand free and the other
around the waist of their team
member (as if they were one
person with two hands- a left hand
and a right hand). The object of the
game is to see which Siamese Twin
team can gift wrap their present
(correctly) in the smallest amount
of time.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
Unfortunately, because God came to
us wrapped in a human body and not
in his majesty and glory a lot of
people at the first Christmas missed
Him. The gift wasn’t wrapped as they
expected. There was no special
welcome, no special preparations, no
grand entrance and in fact there
wasn’t even room for him in the inn
nor a real bed to sleep in. The son of
God was wrapped in rags and lying in
a manger, a feed trough.

Just imagine focusing on the
wrapping paper from a Christmas
gift and treasuring the wrapper and
missing and throwing away the gift.
Unfortunately, today, too many
people in the world are so focused
on all the wrappings of Christmas –
the gifts, the cheer, the
celebrations, the wishes of peace –
that they forget the real gift – that
God sent his Son to save the world.

What matters is not the outside
wrapping, but rather the gift inside
and what we do with it.
We don’t have to earn a gift, work
for it, or do anything other than
receive it. Read Romans 2:8: “For it
is by grace you have been saved,
through faith–and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God–”
Read Luke 2:1-20

The people God first told about the
birth were shepherds. In general,
the shepherds were the poor, the
jobless, the powerless, the less
educated, the uncultured, maybe
even the outcasts. Often when we
buy gifts for others, we reserve the
best gifts for the special people, the
ones who will surely give us
something in return, the ones who
are our favorites. But the gift of
Jesus was first announced to the
shepherds, those without titles,
those who could return little.

God had given the world a gift it
didn’t think it wanted or needed,
and certainly not as expected, and
he presented the gift to a group of
people who weren’t the powerful,
the rulers, or those most looked
up to. It was a seemingly ordinary
gift, in an ordinary wrapper, given
to ordinary people.

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
The Shepherds
Read Luke 2:1-20
• Why do you think the angels
appeared to the shepherds and
not someone else?
• Could the shepherds have
chosen to accept or decline the
angels invitation? What did they
choose to do?
• How long do you think it took
them to decide?
• Why do you think it was
important to them to see the
Baby Jesus first hand?

• Why did the shepherds drop
everything to go find out about
some baby? Why were they so
excited?
• What does this baby mean to
them?
• What does this baby mean to
us?
• Why was the birth of Christ
Good News?
• What are some lessons, truths,
attitudes, and responses can we
learn from the shepherds?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• Do you still find a sense of wonder
when you consider God’s gift to
the world, or has it lost its luster?
Are you more focused on the
wrappings of Christmas or the Gift
God Sent?
• What are you hoping for this
Christmas?
• How can you have a deeper first
hand experience with Christ this
Christmas?

• What can you do to help others
see through all the wrappings of
the holiday and clearly see the
true gift of Christmas?
• The gift is not really ours until we
choose to receive it. It is of no use
to us unless we take it for
ourselves, unwrap it, and make it
our own. Have you received the
gift of Christ in your life?

SCRIPTURES
Luke 2:11-12 (NIV) – “Today
in the town of David a Savior
has been born to you; he is
the Messiah, the Lord. This
will be a sign to you: You will
find a baby wrapped in
cloths and lying in a manger.”

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