Object: Birthday party supplies -- hat, noisemaker, etc.

Lesson: Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' birth, yet we get all the presents.

(Put on the hat and blow the noisemaker.) We're having a birthday party! What fun! Have you ever had a birthday party? (Children respond.) What kinds of things do you do at a birthday party? (Children respond.) You play games, eat cake and ice cream, run around with your friends, sing "Happy Birthday," and get presents.

How would you like to have your very own birthday party on your very own birthday, but everyone else got all the presents? What would you think of that? (Children respond.) Don't think you'd lik…