Object: A homemade shepherd's staff. Candy canes to share.

Lesson: To help children understand that Christmas is about caring for others.

Do any of you know what this is called? ... This is a representation of a shepherd's staff. The shepherd had a stick like this that he used to help care for the sheep. With the hook, he could pull a little lamb out of the bushes or out of a hole in the ground, if it should happen to fall in. At night, when the sheep came back to the fold, to the place where they would sleep, the shepherd used the stick to block the d…