Object Lesson - Christmas Bows

Object Lesson
- Christmas
Bows
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Christmas gifts almost always
come with a Christmas Bow. The
wrapping paper, ribbons, and the
bows are used to decorate and
bring attention to the gift. It’s not
the bow that is important, but the
gift it adorns. It is sad that so
many people are enjoying all the
wrappings of Christmas and the
decorations, but they have
forgotten about the gift – God
with us – Emmanuel – the birth of
Christ.

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Games using Christmas Bows
Pass the Christmas Bow Gift
Exchange – Played like “hot
potato” Pass a bows around the
circle while listening to Christmas
Carols. When the music stops,
whoever is holding the bow gets to
pick a present from under the tree
and places it in their lap or under
their chair. The game continues
until everyone gets a gift. If the
music stops and someone is
holding the bow who already has a
gift it goes to the next person on
the right who hasn’t had a gift yet.

Christmas Bow Pass – In this
game, teams race to pass the
Christmas bows from one end of
the line to the other while
holding hands. Divide the youth
group into teams of 6 to 10
young people and have the
teams line up side by side. At one
end of the line place six
Christmas bows and at the other
end have a basket where they
can drop the bows. Give them
the following instruction: “With
your left hand, grab the right
wrist of the person on your
right.”

Teams must pass all the bows
down to the end, and then back,
without disconnecting to win.
They may only touch the bows
with their right hands. If a bow is
dropped, the team must retrieve
it while remaining connected. If
the chain breaks all the bows
currently being passed must
move back to the beginning of
the line.
Christmas Bow Hunt – This is just
like an Easter egg hunt—only
with Christmas Bows! Hide all the
bows in a room, or all around the
house and have everyone search
for them.

Christmas Bow Fight – Place a long
jump rope or string down the
middle of the floor to divide the
room into 2 equal halves with one
team on each side. Each team starts
with an equal number of bows. Set
a timer for 2-3 minutes and when
the game starts, participants pick up
the bows and throw them to the
other team’s side of the room!
When the timer goes off, everyone
drops all the bows and counts how
many bows are on their team’s side.
Whichever team has the least
amount of bows wins.

Taboo Word – Everyone is given a
Christmas bow to pin on their shirt at
the beginning of the party or event.
A word is chosen that everyone is
not allowed to say. (e.g. Santa) If
anyone says the taboo word to
someone else during the event, they
must give them their Christmas bow.
They pin the bow on their shirt
alongside any others they have
collected. Everyone ends up trying to
get others to say the forbidden word.
At the end of the event, the person
with the most Christmas bows
pinned to them, wins.

Christmas Bow Tree Race – The
youth divide into two teams of an
equal number of players. One
person on wach team is
designated as a gift and stands on
the opposite end of the room from
his or her team. On go, one person
at a time on each team must grab
ONE bow from a basket and run to
the “gift” and stick it on to his or
her arms or head. Youth can only
stick bows on the arms and head.
The team that attaches the most
bows to the gift in a given amount
of time wins. Bows that fall off
don’t count.

Christmas Bow Balance – Prepare
two baskets of bows of various
colors in each. The baskets should
contain an equal number of bows of
each color. As you call out a color,
the next person on each team runs
to his or her basket, and puts as
many bows of the specified color on
his or her head as they want and
walks back to his or her team. If
even one bow falls off, they have to
try again. Call out the colors in
random order. At some point call
the game and the team with the
most bows wins.

Christmas Bow Blow – Tape two
lines on the floor at opposite ends
of the room as goal lines. Teams
blow the bows along the floor to
the opposite goal and back. First
team to complete the relay wins.
Pin the Bow on the present – In
this Christmas version of the
classic kids game of Pin the Tail on
the Donkey, blindfolded kids try to
pin the Bow where the ribbons
cross on a gift wrapped box.

Christmas Bow Grab – Play like
the regular game of Spoons, but
substitute Christmas Bows for
the spoons. In the middle of the
table, place one less Bow than
the number of players you have.
Shuffle a standard 52-card deck
and deal 4 cards to each person.
Have everyone take one of their
cards and discard it to their left
simultaneously. The person to
the right of the dealer, however,
should put one of their cards
down on the table to start the
discard pile, while the dealer
picks up a new card.

Repeat this process of everyone
passing to the left. Each round the
dealer should pick up a new card
and the person to their right
should add to the discard pile, so
as to have a continuous influx of
new cards. The first person to
have 4 of a kind (e.g. all 4 aces or
all 4 nines) has to pick up a bow.
Following this, all other players
need to do the same, with the
slowest person left without a bow
and out of the game.

Christmas Bow Toss – Bows are
tossed at wrapped Gifts boxes
labeled with various point values.
If it lands on top you the points.
You can play with harder to hit
targets which are worth more
points.
Christmas Bow tennis – Youth
split into two teams across from
each other on opposite ends of a
table. The objective is to blow the
Bow off the opponent’s end for a
point.

Christmas Bow Fan – One
Contestant from each team must
stand behind a Christmas bow
holding a gift box. When the clock
starts, each contestant may start
fanning the bow with the gift box.
Contestants and the gift box may
not touch the bow at any time or
the game is over. To complete the
game, contestant must get the bow
in a designated end zone area
(taped square on the floor) within
the 60-second time limit. The bow
must come to a complete stop
without exiting the designated end
zone.

Christmas Bow Tag – With a glue gun
or piece of adhesive tape, attach bow
to a clothespin. You’ll need two for
each participant. When you start the
game, give every person two of the
bows as they enter. When everyone
has their Bows, tell them you’re
giving them two minutes to get rid of
their bows. The only way for
participants to get rid of the bows is
onto pin them to someone else.
Award a prize to the person with the
least number of bows. Icebreaker
idea: After playing the game, each
person must state one Fun Fact about
themselves for each bow pinned to
them. If they have no bows they only
have to say ONE thing about
themselves.

Christmas Bow Target Practice – Set up
a series of rings (or wreaths) hanging
from a string as targets. Have youth
take turns trying to toss bows through
the various size rings or hoops for
points. The smaller the target the
higher the points.
Christmas Bow Mind Meld – Put a
Christmas Bow between two people’s
foreheads and race to the finish line.
Christmas Bow Toothpick Relay – Each
youth holds a toothpick in their teeth
and they must pass a Christmas Bow
down the row of youth to the end of
the line. First team to pass the all the
Bows to the end wins. No hands
allowed.

Christmas Bow Collector – Each
youth is blindfolded, given a large
wooded spoon, and placed in from
of a large gift wrapped box with
the lid off and filled with Christmas
Bows. They must also hold a
similar box on top of their head. In
the time given the blindfolded
youth compete by using the spoon
to scoop bows into the box on
their heads while everyone else
watches. Many times, they will
deliver empty spoons to their
heads and many times they will
miss the box. When time is up, the
youth with the most bows in the
box on their head wins.

Christmas Bow Nosedive – You’ll need
small bows, Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline),
and Bowls. Set up the bowls a foot
apart, with the bows placed in 1 bowl.
When the clock starts, each contestant
may dip their nose in petroleum jelly
and attempt to pick up a bow with
their nose. Players may only apply
petroleum jelly by dipping their nose in
petroleum jelly. The player must
deposit the Christmas bow into the end
bowl directly from the nose without
coming into contact with any other
body part or object. To complete the
game, a player must be the first to
transport 5 bows from the start bowl
to the end bowl, with all 5 Christmas
bows in the bowl concurrently.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• Describe some of the
Christmas Presents under your
tree?
• How are they wrapped? What
colors are the Bows?
• What are some of the things
we need in order to wrap a
Christmas Present?
• The wrapping paper, ribbons,
and the bows are used to
decorate. How may of you
would like to get a Bow for
Christmas? Just a bow?

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
• What are some of the things we
think about when we think about
Christmas?
Christmas is not about the
decorations. It is about the gift. With
Christmas comes a lot of decorations
– There are the Christmas trees; there
are Christmas lights, Christmas carols,
Candy Canes, Angels, Nativity Scenes,
Christmas Cards, Christmas Bows,
Wrapping paper, and even Santa
Claus and elves. But these, like a
Christmas bow are only the
decorations. They aren’t the most
important thing about Christmas.
Christmas is about the greatest gift –
It is about Jesus.

It is sad that so many people are
enjoying all the wrappings of
Christmas and the decorations,
but they have forgotten about the
gift.
Read the Christmas story from
the Bible:
Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 2:1-
12; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-20.

MAKE IT PERSONAL
How many of you never open your
gifts at Christmas? You just leave
them with all the wrappings on
them under the tree, never to find
out what is inside. Many people
enjoy all the wonderful things
about Christmas, but they have
missed the Christ in Christmas. The
gift of Jesus, of peace with God, of
salvation is never received and
remains just something to look at
or just another decoration.

Unless Jesus is received in our
hearts the gift might as well
remain like an unopened gift
under the tree.
Let your light so shine that people
will know the true gift of
Christmas isn’t in all the
decorations, but in Jesus.

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