Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore and understand a key event in the nativity story about the shepherds visiting Jesus in the stable and a template to select and draw an illustration of a gift that could have been given to baby Jesus to celebrate his birth.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore special gift ideas that could be given to Jesus in response to a part of the nativity story.

This lesson is part of a topic scheme of work to get the children to read and respond to the sequence of events in the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.