Effective Preschool Christmas Activities
Christmas Speech Activity

The preschool Christmas Speech Activities will provide the children with creative opportunities to develop their oral and auditory skills.

The children are advised to "play act" the Christmas Speech Activity. Role play activities provide the children with opportunities to build their confidence.!

Activity 1: Kings came Riding:

Kings came riding

One, two, and three,

Over the desert

And over the sea.

One in a ship

With a silver mast;

The fishermen wondered

As he went past.

One on a horse

With a saddle of gold;

The children came running

To behold.

One came walking,

Over the sand,

With a casket of treasure

Held in his hand.

All the people

Said, 'Where go they?'

But the kings went forward

All through the day.

Night came on

As those kings went by;

They shone like the gleaming

Stars in the sky.

Charles Williams.

Activity 2: In the Town:

1. Joseph: Take heart, the journey's ended:

I see the twinkling lights,

Where we shall be befriended

On this the night of nights.

2. Mary: Now praise the Lord that led us

So safe into the town,

Where men will feed and bed us,

And I can lay me down.

3. Joseph: And how then shall we praise him?

Alas, my heart is sore

That we no gifts can raise him

We are so very poor.



4. Mary: We have as much as any

That on the earth do live,

Although we have no penny,

We have ourselves to give.

5. Joseph: Look yonder, wife, look yonder!

A hostelry I see,

Where travelers that wander

Will very welcome be.

6. Mary: The house is tall and stately,

The door stands open thus;

Yet, husband, I fear greatly

That inn is not for us.

7. Joseph: God save you, gentle master!

Your littlest room indeed

With plainest wall of plaster

Tonight will serve our need.

8. Host: For lordlings and for ladies

   I've lodgings and to spare;

   For you and yonder maid is

   No closet anywhere.

9. Joseph: Take heart, take heart sweet Mary,

Another inn i spy,

Whose host will not be chary

To let us easy lie.

10. Mary: O aid me, I am ailing,

My strength is nearly gone;

I feel my limbs are failing,

And yet we must go on.

11. Joseph: God save you, Hostess, kindly!

I pray you, house my wife,

Who bears beside me blindly

The burden of her life.

12. Hostess: My guests are rich men's daughters,

And sons, I'd have you know!

Seek out the poorer quarters,

Where ragged people go.



13. Joseph: Good sir, my wife's in lab our,

Some corner let us keep.

14. Host: Not I: knock up my neighbor,

And as for me, I'll sleep.

15. Mary: In all the lighted city

Where rich men welcome win,

Will not one house for pity

Take two poor strangers in?

16. Joseph: Good women, I implore you,

Afford my wife a bed.

17. Mary: Then gladly in the manger

Our bodies we will house,

Since men tonight are stranger

Than asses are and cows.

18. Joseph: Take heart, take heart, sweet Mary,

The cattle are our friends,

Lie down, lie down, sweet Mary,

For here our journey ends.

19. Mary: Now praise the Lord that found me

This shelter in the town,

Where I with friends around me

May lay my burden down.

Unknown.