Every year, the kids and I get a birthday cake to take to our family Christmas Eve breakfast. We either decorate it ourselves, or we get the bakery to write "Happy Birthday Jesus" on it. Then, we get the whole family to sing happy birthday to Jesus. Then, on Christmas morning, the kids stop in the kitchen, before they even see the tree and sing happy birthday to Jesus. My husband and I make it our mission to remind our children that Jesus is the reason we celebrate and that we give gifts because Jesus is the greatest gift of all.
Because we have so much fun with these traditions, we wanted to do something to share them with the world. So, we decided to have a kid/ doll party. We would celebrate Jesus' birth with the kids' best doll friends.
We started out by setting the table. We used a hot cocoa craft ornament to make cocoa for the dolls, and "Jesus Loves You Snow Much" mugs for the kids' hot cocoa. The Happy Birthday Jesus hats and plates were a wonderful addition. The cake was fun. We used battery operated tealight candles and decorated them with washi tape. The cake was finished off by being placed in the Alice pedestal dome plates- perfectly sized for dolls! The Christmas cookie keychains work great for doll cookies once the keychains are cut off. We used a beautiful "Oh Come Let Us Adore Thee" decoration for a centerpiece.
We then did some laughing, cookie eating, and some singing Christmas songs and songs of praise. We ended the party with a reading of The Nativity and gifts for the dolls (which the kids really liked). Each doll received a doll-sized Nativity Storybook and a doll-sized Happy Birthday Jesus puzzle.
This is a party you could easily do for a group of girls with their dolls, even having them craft the cocoa cups themselves. All of the supplies come from Oriental Trading with plenty for each child. Find these Christmas items and more to make your next Christmas party a hit at Oriental Trading.
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