Ideas for a Covid Safe Christmas


Idea 1

Decorate the outside of your Church.

  • Ask the kids or different families from your church to paint Christmas scenes on large pieces of plywood.

  • Put the scenes up around the outside of your church, so people in the community can see them as they pass by.

Idea 2

Have a Christmas Eve scavenger hunt.  

  • Have a few people in your church dress up as different Christmas characters and position themselves in different locations in your town.

  • Give each character a monologue so they can each tell a different part of the Christmas story.

  • Ask people to walk or drive around your town looking for the Christmas characters. Give each group of people on the hunt a piece of paper with each of the characters names on it, so they will know when they have finished.

  • Bring everyone together once the scavenger hunt it over, this could be outside, or online and review all the different characters.

Idea 3

Turn your church parking lot into a drive in theatre.

- Have a sing-a-long with everyone in their cars.  

  • Play Christmas videos for people to come and watch in December.

  • Put on a nativity play.


Idea 4

Have a Christmas Eve Christingle service.  


Idea 5

Make a video of everyone in your church.  

  • Ask everyone in your church to take a video of themselves saying Merry Christmas.

  • Put all the videos together and send it out on Christmas Eve.


Idea 6

Read through the Jesus Storybook Bible together.

  • Start on December 1 with the first story in the Jesus Storybook bible.

  • Read new story every day.

  • By the time it is December 25 you will be at the Christmas stories.

Idea 7

Do a church wide scavenger hunt and ask people to collect different items they will need for the Christmas service.  

  • For a Christingle Service, people can hunt for all the pieces to their Christingle.

  • Print a nativity scene on a puzzle, and hide the different pieces around your town with clues to get to each new piece.

  • People can hunt for different pieces of their own nativity scene.

Idea 8

Make gift bags for the people in your church.

  • Fill small bags with gifts for people in your church.

  • Ask kids to make a Christmas card for each bag.

  • Ask people to bake some cookies to put in each bag.

  • Buy a Christmas magazine, or something else for each person.

  • Put a blank card in each bag and ask each person to write a Christmas card to someone else.

  • Ask staff or members of the church to deliver each bag. Ring the door bell, stand back, say Merry Christmas and take a few minutes or an hour to connect.