Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells - Christmas Songs for Kids

Do you find it hard to get visuals and recordings for different kids songs?

I have always found this a problem so I am sharing songs on the blog that I have used with children and providing you with

Visuals 

(Powerpoint or Picture or details of how you can make one) 

Words   

(chords also available)

Recordings  

(mp3 or video to learn the song) 

Then if you would like to download the visual of the song there will be a link provided to my creation, or I will direct you to where else you can find it.  

There will also be links for PDF's Fred has created for the words and chords. 

This month I am taking the theme of

CHRISTMAS

This song I have chosen is 

Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells

Everyone knows the tune of Jingle Bells so that means this will be an easy song to learn.

Many many years ago we worked with CEF Good News Clubs and this was one of the Christmas songs they gave us visuals for and so we learned a simple jolly song for kids and have used it in different kids meetings in schools and churches and homes for several years. 

We took this as one of the 2 Kids Christmas Songs that were included in our first

 Songs for Christmas 

Last year Fred & I went live on Facebook each night to get our friends and followers to sing 

Christmas Songs with us and have a little laugh as things don't always go as planned 

or we just had a happy memory of a song.

And plans are in progress for the same this year.


You can see all those live videos plus other post and videos at

Apostolic Worship - Fred's FB Page

Sandra's Ark - My FB Page

Apostolic Worship - Fred's YouTube Channel

VISUALS

The words were originally on different coloured bells

which you could draw by hand and cut out on different coloured card.

Then some (very happy to help) children could hold up for the others.

POWERPOINT

In later years with more opportunity to use projection on screens I designed powerpoints and pictures 

You can Download a copy of these four pictures for printing out HERE 





WORDS

Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells

Ring them out today

Christ was born in Bethlehem

To to take our sins away

Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells

Ring them out today

Tell all the world of Jesus' love

This happy Christmas Day

You can Download a copy of these words with chords for guitar and piano HERE

ACTIONS

Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells

Ring them out today

- Lift hands up and swing them to pretend to ring bells

Christ was 

- Point up

Born in Bethlehem

- pretend to rock a baby

To take our sins away

- hands in at heart and then swing out

Christmas Bells, Christmas Bells

Ring them out today

- Lift hands up and swing them to pretend to ring bells

Tell all the world of

- Lift hands up move them out to form a circle

Jesus love

- Point up and them put hands over heart

This Happy Christmas Day

- Clap hands

RECORDING

 You can find the recording of this song on the video below from 

Fred's YouTube channel - Apostolic Worship@apostolicworshipuk

 

Notes:
I believe this was written by someone in Child Evangelism Fellowship many years ago but I don't think it is available as a printed song by them now.   

I Hope you enjoy the song and this is a help to you.

Previous Songs: 

Don't Forget!

You can find all our Kids Songs under Kid's Resources 

and 

all our Free Printables in our Resource Library

Christmas is a Time of Joy - Christmas Songs for Kids

Do you find it hard to get visuals and recordings for different kids songs?

I have always found this a problem so I am sharing songs on the blog that I have used with children and providing you with

Visuals 

(Powerpoint or Picture or details of how you can make one) 

Words   

(chords also available)

Recordings  

(mp3 or video to learn the song) 

Then if you would like to download the visual of the song there will be a link provided to my creation, or I will direct you to where else you can find it.  

There will also be links for PDF's Fred has created for the words and chords. 

This month I am taking the theme of

CHRISTMAS

The song I have chosen is 

Christmas is a Time of Joy

Everyone knows the tune of Jesus Loves Me so that means this will be an easy song to learn.

Many many years ago we worked with CEF Good News Clubs and this was one of the Christmas songs they gave us visuals for and so we learned a simple jolly song for kids and have used it in different kids meetings in schools and churches and homes for several years. 

We are planning to take this as one of the 2 Kids Christmas Songs that will be included in our second

 Songs for Christmas 

Last year Fred & I went live on Facebook each night to get our friends and followers to sing 

Christmas Songs with us and have a little laugh as things don't always go as planned 

or we just had a happy memory of a song.

And plans are in progress for the same this year.


You can see all those live videos plus other post and videos at

Apostolic Worship - Fred's FB Page

Sandra's Ark - My FB Page

Apostolic Worship - Fred's YouTube Channel

VISUALS

This is the verse

and then we would flip it over for the chorus printed on the back

POWERPOINT

In later years with more opportunity to use projection on screens I designed powerpoints and pictures 

You can Download a copy of these two pictures for printing out HERE 





WORDS

Christmas is a time of Joy

Not because of gifts and toys

But because God gave His Son

To redeem us everyone

Yes God has given

Yes God has given

Yes God has given

His Son for you and me.

You can Download a copy of these words with chords for guitar and piano HERE

ACTIONS

We don't use actions in this one except to clap in the second part of the song.

RECORDING

 You can find the recording of this song on the video below from 

Fred's YouTube channel 

Notes:
I believe this was written by someone in Child Evangelism Fellowship many years ago but I don't think it is available as a printed song by them now.   

I Hope you enjoy the song and this is a help to you.

Previous Songs: 

You can find all our Kids Songs under Kid's Resources or in our Resource Library

The 5 Best Quotes about Thankfulness & Free Printable - Coffee & Conversation

Here is my choice for the 

5 Best Quotes on the subject of Thankfulness

I am not a fan of QUOTES

In fact sometimes I get very annoyed at how people almost treat a quote

 as more important than the 

Word of God

I actually wrote a blog post about Do We Really Need This Quote?

However I do see that there are certain topics that there are some great quotes on from some very reliable people. This month I have been thinking about Thankfulness and Gratitude and decided to encourage you with some quotes around this.

There are many quotes from so many people on Thankfulness but I prefer to only refer to or recommend ones from people who I trust as standing firm on the Word of God.

So in the list below I will quote

Not  Joyce Meyer    but   Warren Wiersbe

 Not  Beth Moore   but   Andrew Murray  

Not  Andy Stanley  but   A.W. Tozer

1.  Warren Wiersbe

"The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reasons for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long."

2.  A.W. Tozer

"Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it."

 

3.  Andrew Murray

"Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts."

Have you read the 5 Best Quotes on Thankfulness?

4.  Charles Spurgeon

"Be thankful for the providence which has made you poor, or sick, or sad; for by all this Jesus works the life of your spirit and turns you to Himself."

5.  Jerry Bridges

   "Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God."   

 

Don't forget to download our

                      Thankfulness Quotes Free Printable 

Plus why not have a look at the other Free resources in our

Blog Resource Library

 

How to Keep & Share A Thankful Heart - A Dose of Encouragement

Who or what are you thankful for & happy about today?

So many times we are drawn to think on the more unpleasant things in life which lead to unhappiness and they can keep us from being thankful for anything when we are in that frame of mind.  


What can we do to keep the right frame of mind and not get into that attitude that can get worse and worse as we dwell on the hurts and unpleasantness caused by others?

We can remember that we are blessed.

There is a little song that we used to sing years ago in church and maybe we should revive it to remind us that we are blessed.

I am blessed, I am blessed,

Every day I walk with Jesus I am blessed.

When I wake up in the morning,

When I lay my head to rest,

I am blessed, I am blessed.

If we are God's child, saved by the grace of Jesus and living by the power of the Holy Spirit then we are blessed more than be could be in any other way.

Being Blessed is not having all the money you want, having great possessions or having a great life which never sees sadness.

Being Blessed is described in Numbers 6 v 24-26 which I learnt as a song in the Presbyterian Church I grew up in as we sang it each time a baby was christened.

We are blessed as Christians because we know:

We are kept in the hand of God 

We are favoured by God 

We are in the Grace of God

We know we have the peace of God

So every day we know we are blessed and we should remember to thank God for His blessings to us.

As we thank God repeatedly we will build up a thankful heart.

As we become more thankful we will also love God more.

As we love God more we will build up a loving heart.

As we love God more we will also become more loving towards others.

As we love others more we will build up a more caring and giving heart.

I'm sure we know people who are very generous and do think often of helping and giving to others but we as Christians have the greatest thing to offer others and that is the Love of God, through the Gospel.

We can't go around saying - Oh I'm better at showing God's Love to others by giving to people rather than telling them about God's Love.

Because of God's love to us we should have a thankful and loving and giving heart which should mean give people out of the abundance of love in our hearts but that should always include the best thing we have and that is telling them about God's Salvation.

Amy Carmichael put it very simply and clearly in this quote below

because 

she knew that we cannot truly love God without giving this gift to others.

 John Wesley entreated us as believers to speak as we truly believe 

because 

he wanted us to act as the bible has also told us.

How to Keep a Thankful Heart?

Recognised how God loves & blesses us each day and remember to thank God each day.

How to Share a Thankful Heart?

React out of the Thankfulness we have which makes us more loving towards others and then we will share the Love of God.