Our main goal, always, is to have a Christ-centered Primary and we hope to be able to really focus on Christ and give the children a spiritual experience learning about the true meaning of Christmas.
Our main goals are to help the children understand how the prophecies and the actual events of Christmas mesh together in Bethlehem and Ancient America and, most importantly, to focus on the testimonies of the Prophets and the people we "visit" on our journey - to build the children's testimonies.
We plan to keep all the children during both the class time and sharing time so we will have enough time.

(This could also be modified to be a quarterly activity.)

• Have each member of the presidency and one of the teachers each take a group around to the various areas (along with any teachers that don't have parts). The teachers can dress up and help us out with the parts.
• All parts will be written ahead of time and assigned.
• May get help from the youth or other adults within the ward.

Time schedule
12:20 Start Primary: Entire Primary together -Announcements, Song, Opening Prayer, birthdays and then introduction to Sharing Time. No talks.
12:30 Begin the Program groups as follows:

1: Waiting to go:

• sing Christmas carols and wait for your group to go. Leave at 5 min. intervals.

• Isaiah saw a vision (He could tell us when he lived and all about what he saw in vision - read from the scriptures, add testimony) Isaiah 9:6

• Nephi saw a vision (He could tell us who he is, when he lived, and about what he saw and read from the scriptures, tell us of his testimony that he knows it will happen.)

• Samuel the Lamanite (He can tell us what he saw, who he tried to tell - he could be telling the people when we arrive and then get chased off. We could follow him and hear his story and testimony that he knows that the Savior will be born very soon. He could tell us of the signs. We could be part of the believers. The "bad guys" could come take some of the believers away to kill them. We would head out on our way in time travel to . . .)

• Elisabeth tells us about the visit she had from her cousin Mary and how the baby inside her leaped when she greeted her. She shares what Mary told her about seeing an angel and being the Mother of the Savior. She shares her testimony of Christ.

• A Decree Reader reads to us that all the world must be taxed. We hear Joseph and Mary talk about preparing to go to the city of David (Bethlehem) to pay their taxes.

• Inn keepers - We knock on doors to find the inn where Joseph and Mary are staying. We knock on several finally finding the one that sent them to a stable. He doesn't tell us any more than to leave them alone, they have it hard enough. We go off to find the stable, but can't. We get caught up in time travel and go visit....

• as things have happened just as they were prophesied Finish the story of Samuel the Lamanite - day-night-day of light, he tells us what has been happening to the believers.

• Shepherds in the field - angels come, listen to the account from the scriptures, listen to the angels sing. Sing with the angels (be in the group of angels?) Follow the shepherds to the . . .

• (Have a coat closet decorated as a stable with animals and a manger, etc.) See Mary, Joseph, and the new born Baby. Sing Away in a Manger or something like that.

• See the wise men. They tell of their meeting with King Herod. They show us the gifts they brought and explain what they mean. They go in search of the King of the Jews.

13: Go back to our time: The Year 2000

• We return to the Primary room and sing until everyone is there - one more song for the last group. Then we talk about what we saw. How there were many prophets that told us what would happen. How we saw that it did happen. Listen to the testimony of a modern Prophet (on tape?) tell us that He has come and that he will return. Add my (Primary President) testimony of such and talk briefly about how we can both find Jesus in our lives (by reading scriptures, praying and letting him be part of our lives) and how we can be like the Prophets and help others find their way to Jesus, through missionary work and being good examples.

Isaiah: 12:30-12:50 hear testimony and we remember the signs he gave us
Nephi: 12:25-1:00 he tells us of his vision and his testimony
Samuel: 12:40-1:00 he tells us his prophesy and what the people are doing to him - they come looking
for the good people and we escape just in time! 1:00-1:20 He tells how some listened and were killed and us what just happened - day-night-day - all excited!
Elizabeth: 12:45-1:05 tells of John the Baptist leaping in her womb - and her testimony of Jesus Christ
Decree reader: 12:50-1:10 tell the decree of Caesar that all be taxed
Mary: 12:50-1:10 hear the decree and go on the
donkey 1:10-1:25 be in the stable with a nativity set up.
Joseph: 12:50-1:10 hear the decree and go to Bethlehem with Mary 1:10-1:25 - be in the stable with a nativity set up.
Several Inn Keepers: 12:55-1:15 talk with several inn keepers (like we are looking for Christ) One asks "How do I remember? No way to know. Too many people. Don't bother me!" One tells us there is no room and about shuts the door, but then, we ask about a woman about to give birth. He remembers. He turned them away. One asks what we want. We are looking for the woman about to give birth. He tells us he gave them the stable. Please don't bother them. It's not a very good room, but better than nothing. We go looking for the stable. (We get side tracked and end up going to see how things are going for the Prophet Samuel.) (We return to Bethlehem and decide to look for the stable outside of town where we run into the shepherds)
2 sets of 3-5 shepherds: 1:05-1:25 watching the flocks and hearing the angels. They go with us to find the stable and the baby. (Set 1 goes with group A, while the set 2 meets with group B. Set 1 returns from the stable to meet with group C and replay, while the set 2 goes to the stable with group B. Set 2 returns to meet with group D while set 1 goes to the stable to meet with group C. Set 2 goes to the stable with group D.)
Narrator for Nativity: Reads about the nativity. Points out the star. Leads us in song.
Wise Men 3+ : 1:15-1:30 Tell us of the journey they have been making. It has been several years since the new star appeared that they are following. They saw the King, but don't dare return that way. They think he doesn't have good intentions toward the baby. They show us the gifts that they are taking to Jesus and go on their way.
 

• Every person would be dressed up to tell us about their part in the story.
• Each leader of a group will have a special space and time traveling watch that will tell them where they are to be next (if they read it clock wise, they will know which room to go to and can tell the children where they are and the year they have arrived in. The person they meet will tell them who he/she is.
• It is important to make sure the schedule works because the children will be seeing the same people at different times and there are other groups of children following - they must be at a given location at different times.