New Year's vytynanki: silhouette paper cutting for the New Year. Paper angels, stencils for windows New Year's angel stencils

The article will provide options for decorating windows for the New Year, the necessary templates and master classes.

New Year is a magical holiday that everyone around the world looks forward to. On this day, even the most gloomy hearts are filled with faith in something miraculous. For children, this holiday is especially important. To give your home a festive feel, decorate it. You can start with the windows.

In the New Year, they become the main object of decoration. Through them you can see the street where the snow is swirling.

There are many ways to decorate the windows in your home.

The simplest one is to hang an electric garland on the eaves. Buy only high-quality products that are reliably insulated. And turn off the garland before going to bed.
Snowflakes. They have been familiar to us since kindergarten, when in class everyone unanimously cut out these attributes of winter days. You can cut out snowflakes with your children using templates or diagrams.
Decorating with stencils is a fun, but more time-consuming option for decorating windows for the holidays. With stencils, a real picture will appear on the windows, which will evoke a feeling of celebration.
All kinds of garlands, tinsel, rain and Christmas tree decorations. You can always decorate windows and other parts of the room with them if you’ve run out of ideas.

Think in advance where and how you will decorate the apartment. This will help prepare all the necessary materials and not make the decor cluttered.

Stencils for painting windows for the New Year

There are several ways to use stencils for the New Year. Let's look at a couple of them.

Decorating with stencils and artificial snow

For this method we will need a printed stencil, a stationery knife and a can of artificial snow. This snow is sold in Christmas tree departments before the holidays and comes in a variety of colors.
Print out the stencil and cut out the inside.
We mark on the window where the snow patterns will be placed. It is better to mark these places with a small piece of tape or stickers.
Now lightly wet the stencil. This is necessary so that it fits tightly to the window.
Now we attach it to the intended place. Remember, it’s better to check a hundred times how evenly the stencil is placed than to correct everything later.
Using the instructions on the can, apply snow to the stencil. Make sure that drops of the product do not fall on the area around the stencil.
If the product gets on the glass in an unnecessary place, remove it with a damp cloth.
The pictures below show stencils for cutting.

Artificial snow can be toxic. Therefore, do not use it with children.

Stencil for artificial snow

Decoration with painting

Painting windows is a more labor-intensive process, it takes a lot of time and requires patience. But the result is worth it.
Firstly, painting on windows lasts a long time.
Secondly, this method is safe and you can decorate the windows together with your child.
To make painting easier, you can use stencils.
In good weather, during the day, attach the stencil to the back of the window. So that it is behind the glass. This can be done using tape.
Now close the window and start creating. You can paint a window using acrylic paint, gouache, and children's stained glass paints. The paint can then be removed with water or solvent.
Below see the drawing and stencils for drawings on glass.

Patterns for paper windows for the New Year

Another simple way to decorate windows is with paper patterns.

Print out the pattern you like
Cut it out with a utility knife
Now we attach the finished pattern to the glass

There are many ways to attach. Choose the one that suits you

Methods for attaching paper patterns to glass:

Regular water. If the pattern is not large, it will last a long time.
Scotch tape. However, it may not be easy to wash it off the glass.
Soapy solution. It holds better than water and can be used for larger designs.
Glue stick or PVA. They are easy enough to clean with window cleaner.
The pictures below show patterns for cutting out and sticking on windows.

Window pattern

Window decorations for the New Year with garlands

Let's make a simple garland to decorate windows for the New Year

We need: Christmas tree decorations, colored ribbons, hot glue, tape
We cut ribbons of various lengths. We attach a Christmas tree toy to one end. To prevent the tape from unraveling, it must be fixed with hot glue.
We attach the tapes to the cornice with the other end. You can simply tie them. To prevent them from moving, secure them with a small piece of tape.
This garland can be changed at your discretion. Instead of toys, use figurines, fruits, candies or gingerbread cookies. Instead of ribbons - rain, tinsel or garlands.
See the pictures below for examples of window decoration with garlands.

Decorating windows with garlands for the New Year

Drawings on windows for the New Year

If you want to make drawings on windows for the New Year, then you will probably be interested in the question of what paints are best to use.

Draw on the windows not recommended by professionals stained glass paints. Yes, they are designed specifically for drawings on glass. But they hold up well, and few people need New Year’s drawings all year round.
Watercolor is also not a good paint. It spreads. And even if you manage to apply a pattern, it will not be easy to wash it off.
From the colors that you can draw For temporary drawings, it is better to use gouache or finger paints. Acrylic paints are also suitable.
In addition to paints, you can make drawings on the windows with toothpaste or artificial snow. These materials resemble real white snow and can be easily washed if necessary.
There is another way to decorate windows for the New Year - these are special sticker designs. They are sold in stores ready-made. All you need to do is attach the drawing to the right place.

Vytynankas for the windows for the New Year

Vytynanki can be made using a template. Here are some interesting ideas in the pictures below:

Vytynanka on the window

Window decorated for the New Year

Window stickers New Year

Window stickers are sold ready-made. They have a special adhesive base that adheres tightly to the window. At the same time, they are easy to remove and do not leave marks on the glass.
There are a variety of stickers, the most common being vinyl stickers.
For window stickers to look attractive, they should not have a reverse side. In this case, they will be clearly visible both inside the apartment and from the street.
Stickers come in color and white. Usually, sticker manufacturers have a very wide range of products before the New Year holidays.
These stickers can be purchased at office supply stores or online stores.

Paper figures for windows for the New Year

Paper figures that can be placed as decoration on windows:

Snowflakes. This is perhaps already a classic. In almost every home or government institution, New Year's snowflakes hang on the windows.
Ded Moroz and Snegurochka. These New Year symbols will be quite difficult to cut out. But they will delight the household throughout the holidays.
Santa Claus' reindeer. You can have one, or a whole team.
New Year tree with toys. Or just toys that seem to hang from the ledge.
The animal is a symbol of the New Year. It is known that every New Year has a patron animal, according to the Eastern calendar. To bring you good luck on New Year's Day, you can place this animal on the window.
Other holiday attributes: candles, New Year's gingerbread cookies, snowmen, gift boxes, stars and much more.

Window clippings for the New Year

It is better to make cuttings not from too thick paper. This paper will stick better to windows. Therefore, if the pattern is large, it is better to divide it into several parts, and only then print it and glue it to the glass.

The picture below shows cuttings that need to be made in 2 pieces, or on 1 sheet folded in half.
Glue the two halves together on the window.

Snowflakes for the New Year on the windows

Making a snowflake is very simple:

First, make a square from a piece of paper. Fold this square in half, diagonally.
Fold the resulting triangle in half again.
Notice how the new triangle is formed. This is done by eye. The main thing is that one side of the triangle touches the opposite fold.
Cut off the bottom of the shape and you can draw an outline along which you will further cut.
For photo cutting instructions and examples of snowflakes, see the pictures below.

Beautiful window for the holiday

Video: How to make a drawing on a window?

Angels were considered, so all kinds of souvenirs with their symbols have always been and will be the most relevant and pleasant gift for this bright holiday. And, if this gift is also made with your own hands, then it will become truly priceless!

In the old days, on winter evenings, it was customary to carve angels; everyone had their own secrets for making them.

Let's get to know some of them.

The most popular is, perhaps, Favorsky’s angel. Ingenious, like everything simple and simple, like everything ingenious.

Angels of the artist Favorsky (from writing paper)

The wonderful Russian artist Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky came up with a surprisingly easy and elegant way of making a three-dimensional angel from ordinary writing paper at the beginning of the 20th century. From a piece of paper folded in half, cut out an outline according to the diagram

The easiest way is to draw this outline not with a single line, but in detail: first, with a simple pencil, draw half of the head, then surround it with a halo, draw half of the dress, and only then complete the wing. It is advisable to erase the excess line (at the border of the dress and the wing) with an eraser; After that, cut out a figure from paper. You can decorate the angel's dress using the openwork design of the hem of the dress and symmetrically cut out small images on the fold of the figure. The varied shape of the wings and the openwork pattern of the costume will make each angel original and unique.

The next stage of work is the most exciting. Open the finished figurine, pull the upper part of the halo forward - your angel will have hands folded in prayer

Fix the folds on the “shoulders” and folded “palms”, and your paper angel is ready. The cuts on the wings and hem can be made voluminous by twisting paper strips onto a pencil

Favorsky's Angel combines the lightness and purity of the material, the possibilities of creative exploration, plastic grace and unconditional simplicity of execution.

It will be a wonderful amulet gift and will bring into your home hopes for the fulfillment of your most cherished desires in the New Year.

Templates for Christmas Angels

And a few more templates for Christmas Angels from plain writing paper. A little paper angel can become the guardian angel of your home.

1. You will need a sheet of thick paper. Transfer the image from the drawing onto paper. The dotted line is the line along which you need to bend the sheet in half for symmetry when cutting out the shape.

You can imagine the image or leave it as is. Carefully cut out the angel and bend its arms along the marked dotted line. Thread the needle and pull the thread through the wings (this place is indicated by a dot). It’s good if the thread between the wings is threaded through a small piece of cocktail straw. - We'll get a flying angel. All that remains is to hang the little guardian angel higher.

2. And here is a pattern of a traditional Waldorf angel from paper,

which you can decorate your homes for Christmas.

3. You can make angels like these from ordinary paper; they are cut out according to the principle of a snowflake, that is, an outline is applied to the paper folded in half and cut out, and if necessary, some details are bent.

4. Glowing Angel made of golden paper or foil:

Cut along solid lines. Dotted line - fold lines (do not cut!). We attach the stars to the wire.

Angel and tabletop tree made of paper and cardboard

To make such an angel you need to cut out 2 truncated cones. This will be an angel's dress. Cut out the head and draw the face as shown in the picture. Join 2 sheets together to make a halo. Next, glue 2 rectangles and cut out sleeves for the angel from them. Glue your hands to them (use the same paper as for the face).

Make wings. They must be double-sided. Collect an angel figurine. Thread a thread through the halo and you will get a wonderful Christmas tree toy.

For a tabletop Christmas tree, you can use cardboard.

1. Cut out 2 blanks in the shape of a Christmas tree. In one, make a cut from the top to the middle, in the second - from the base to the middle.

Vytynanki is a type of handicraft when figures are cut out of paper. They are glued to windows or used to decorate a room by attaching them to strings. The art originated in China in the 7th century after the invention of paper. Since then it has developed and came to Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. People use stencils when preparing for holidays: Christmas, Easter, birthdays. Preparing for the celebration improves family relationships and brings adults and children closer together. Paper produces openwork patterns, three-dimensional pictures, and funny New Year's scenes.

To prepare stencils you will need white paper, a stationery knife, nail scissors, and a simple pencil. Ready-made cuttings are found online and printed. If you want to get creative, you can draw the pictures yourself by hand and then decorate the room with them.

There are two ways to stick pictures to the window.

Option 1

Prepare a soap solution, wet one side of the stencil with a sponge and attach it to the glass. Subsequently, the protrusions are easily removed, and the glass is washed with clean water or a special window cleaner.

Option 2

Take toothpaste and dilute it in water. Dip the stencil in clean water and stick it to the window. Wet a sponge in a solution with toothpaste and blot the glass next to the glued snowflake with it.

You can first spray water on the window; such places will be more transparent. Wait until the solution dries and remove the snowflake. The result will be an unusual pattern - a transparent silhouette of the stencil, and around it a matte white color. After the holidays, toothpaste is easily washed off with clean water.

Wedding

To decorate the room, wedding-themed stencils are glued to the windows: bride and groom, wedding rings, fluttering doves. Protruding hearts will become relevant. They decorate not only the windows, but also the room itself.

Autumn leaves

Stencils of finished leaves can be found online. But it’s much more interesting to make them together with your child. You need to collect beautiful fallen leaves on the street. At home, it’s good to straighten them, put them in a book for 1-2 days and press them with a press.

Attach the leaves to the paper and trace along the outline. Mushrooms, nuts and other attributes of autumn are also used as autumn protrusions.

Ballerina

Delicate and graceful silhouettes will emphasize the festive mood. Usually the ballerina is depicted during a dance movement: standing on one leg with raised arms or making a graceful bow to the audience.

Summer

The summer theme is represented by vytynankas associated with the warm season. Usually these are stencils in the form of berries and fruits: strawberries, raspberries, pears, cherries, apples. You can decorate the windows with images of flowers; they symbolize the onset of summer: daisies, roses, dandelions, peonies. Droplets symbolizing rain are used as summer vytynankas.

Letters

Typically, stencils of letters on windows make up words and small combinations of words. The inscriptions symbolize the onset of a holiday or other special event. For example: “Happy Birthday!”, “Happy New Year!”, “Merry Christmas!” Signatures on the windows can be used to congratulate people living in neighboring houses on the holiday. In this case, the letters are glued in a mirror manner.

Digital

Numbers, like letters, symbolize some significant number. Most often, numbers are hung on windows before the New Year. They indicate the onset of the next calendar year, for example: 2018, 2019.

Sometimes numbers are glued to windows for children's birthdays (adults are unlikely to be happy with such a gift). Usually this is a short caption: “The little princess is 10 years old,” “Our boyfriend is 7 years old!”

Colors

Flowers are universal stencils, suitable for any event. They can decorate a room for no reason. The choice of vytynanka depends on the mood and preferences of the creator. These can be delicate roses, field and modest cornflowers or exotic edelweiss. If desired, make a garland or wreath of small flowers.

Patterns of vytynankas for the New Year

Decorating the house and thinking through the New Year's pattern is one of the important parts of preparing for the celebration.

There are two ways to cut a stencil:

Enlarge the picture on the computer screen. Place tracing paper or other transparent paper on the monitor and transfer the drawing. Then cut it out - this will be the stencil. The method is convenient if it is not possible to print the image.
For the second method you will need a printer. You need to choose the picture you like, download it from the site and print it. Using a utility knife or small scissors, cut out the protrusion.

Christmas trees

This is one of the main symbols of the New Year. You can cut out Christmas trees of different sizes by “planting” a spruce forest on the window. It is convenient to glue the vytynanki using a soap solution, then everything is easily washed off with water.

Snowflakes

Snow and snowflakes are popular vytynankas, companions of New Year and Christmas. Snowflake stencils are downloaded from the Internet. Those who wish can do them themselves. To do this, take a sheet of white paper, fold it into four or eight parts, and use nail scissors to cut out openwork patterns.

Houses

Small and large silhouettes of houses on the windows are complemented by falling snowflakes, Christmas trees, and deer rushing to wish children a Happy New Year.

Keys

Stencils in the shape of keys are also suitable for other holidays. When choosing vytynanki, it is important not to be afraid to fantasize. You can glue the outlines of large barn keys, small and elegant golden keys to the glass.

At Christmas

After the New Year, children and adults decorate the house for the Christmas holidays. Not only Christmas trees and snowflakes are chosen as examples of work, but also biblical themes. For example, they depict the Star of Bethlehem, a sheep pen, and the baby Jesus.

Winter patterns

Openwork patterns are made up of snowflakes of different shapes. You can get creative and cut out unusual designs on a large sheet of paper, then glue it to the glass.

Stencils are usually made from paper. This material is easy to attach to glass. The paper washes off quickly and leaves no marks. To decorate rooms, they also use other available materials: cotton wool, threads, white pompons. But they make voluminous protrusions. They are hung on threads from the ceiling.

This category includes any contours: animals, birds, people, trees, inanimate objects. You can cut out the protrusions of animals: silhouettes of hares, foxes, bears. Animals can be placed in a mysterious forest; to do this, additionally cut out several trees.

Asterisks

Excellent stencils symbolizing New Year, Christmas and other holidays. The stars look spectacular in the evening. If you also glue Santa Claus in a sleigh to the picture on the window, then in the dark you will get the feeling of being in a fairy-tale place.

Deer

In Catholic tradition, Santa Claus flies to children on a sleigh drawn by reindeer. Gradually, animals became firmly established in the symbolism of the New Year; the Russian Father Frost fell in love with riding reindeer. Animal sleds will complement the winter holidays.

Christmas angels

Angel figurines are becoming popular. They are glued to windows to decorate the house for Christmas. On both sides of the Christmas tree are attached figures of angels soaring on wings. Sometimes they hold flowers or Christmas wreaths in their hands, or play a musical instrument.

Bells

Small bells have always been associated with holidays. When thinking about the stencil, don’t forget to add a bow to the bell.

Tree branches

Stencils with Christmas balls or other toys are placed on the branches. Branches of spruce or pine trees are prepared as protrusions. They are more suitable for the New Year theme.

Father Frost

A wizard with a big white beard and a bag of gifts will decorate any window. Next to Santa Claus they glue the Snow Maiden, forest animals (hare, wolf, fox), and a carriage drawn by deer.

Month diagram for cutting

It’s easy to make a stencil for the month yourself, without downloading pictures from the Internet. Draw a circle using a compass. You can circle the bottom of a plate or mug, choosing the right size. Then draw another line, giving the month the desired shape (waxing or waning moon), cut it out and attach the stencil to the window.

Windows in children's rooms are decorated with funny cartoon characters, fairy-tale heroes or other funny figures. Older children cut out stencils on their own and stick them on windows, thinking up unusual plots.

Preparing for the holiday is a family event; joint decoration of windows and rooms brings adults and children closer together.

Smeshariki

Kids love to watch cartoons; they will be happy if their favorite characters “settle” in their room during the New Year holidays.

The mysterious Nyusha, the homely Kopatych, the dreamy Krosh and other characters from Smeshariki will make excellent company. Stencils with cartoon characters can be painted and hung not only on the windows, but throughout the room.

Fairy-tale heroes

The choice of stencils depends on the child’s preferences. Boys will enjoy robots, Spider-Man or another hero saving the world. Girls will love beautiful princesses or soaring fairies with a magic wand. You can come up with a festive plot, depict heroes in an enchanted forest or a winter city.

Air balloons

Vitinankas with balls are suitable for decoration for any holiday - New Year, a child’s birthday, last bell. The stencils are easy to cut and can be done even by preschool children. You can also release real balloons into the room; they will emphasize the holiday atmosphere.

Images of animals that the child likes are selected as stencils. These can be domestic animals: cows, goats, cats, dogs. Or wild animals: wolves, foxes, hares.

You can choose the symbol of the year according to the Eastern calendar as the main animal. This year the dog stencil is in demand. Next year will pass under the sign of the Pig, so piglets will be able to decorate the windows of any room.

Birds

Soaring pigeons, graceful swans, mysterious owls, even red-breasted roosters will appeal to babies and older children. Parents can suggest cutting out a lot of birds and hanging them on strings throughout the room. In the twilight, the kids will think that a flock of magical birds has settled in the bedroom.

Paper figures cut out on windows and walls - vytynankas - will help create a New Year's atmosphere. This selection includes silhouettes of New Year's heroes: Father Frost and Snow Maiden, snowmen, gnomes; Christmas trees, balls and bells, snowflakes, snow-covered houses, deer, bunnies and animals.

The templates can be easily printed on a sheet of white paper, cut out and pasted on the window with soapy water, or secured in other corners of the New Year's interior. Vytynankas are suitable for decorating cards, posters and other New Year's crafts. But most often, paper protrusions are hung on windows to decorate the room both inside and outside.

With small protrusions you can decorate a window or create a composition on a windowsill or table; with larger stencils you can decorate the walls in a room or on the stage where the New Year's holiday will take place.

Here are the stencils for the silhouette cutting of the Snow Maiden and Father Frost. You can cut with thin scissors or a stationery knife; you will definitely need a backing board so as not to scratch the table. You can use a plastic cutting board or a piece of linoleum.

Silhouette paper cutout: Christmas tree

You can cut out the Christmas tree using a stencil as a silhouette, or you can make a symmetrical cutout by folding a sheet of paper in half. We make a standing Christmas tree in one of the following ways: glue two symmetrical Christmas trees onto an oval paper stand, or fold each Christmas tree in half and glue it together.

If you cut out two figures from tinted paper using the following stencil, you can connect them and get a beautiful three-dimensional New Year's composition. This composition will look great suspended from the ceiling or a lamp in the center of the room.

Paper protrusions: snowflakes and ballerinas

Snowflakes on windows are also vytynankas, perhaps the most common and popularly loved. Snowflakes can be very different, especially if the master uses all his imagination. You can create a symmetrical snowflake by folding the paper several times. If you try, you can even cut out snowflakes with stars at the ends of the rays.

You will find more in this collection
If you cut out a large enough snowflake, you can place a completely independent composition inside it. For example, a New Year's snowman or a snowy forest.

Snowflakes can take the form of light snow ballerinas. To do this, cut out the silhouette of a ballerina separately, put an openwork snowflake on it and hang it by a thread. The result is a very delicate, airy decoration that can be hung from the ceiling or lamp.

Vytynanki: Christmas balls

Silhouettes of Christmas tree decorations can be cut out either in a symmetrical pattern or using an individual stencil. These decorations can be used to complement a composition on a window, decorate a Christmas tree, or attach them with threads to a chandelier or curtain.

Vytynanki: New Year's bells

We make carved bells using a stencil. If you glue translucent paper, for example, tracing paper, to the inside of the cutout, then such a bell can be used with a backlight effect.

Silhouette cutout: deer, sleigh, cart

Another fabulous New Year's hero is the deer. The delivery of the wizard Father Frost and the Snow Maiden is associated with it. We offer stencils for cutting out deer, carts and sleighs.

Paper cut: snowmen

Charming Snowmen are another character of the New Year holiday. It’s easy to cut out their figures symmetrically, or you can make a “family photo of Snowmen” or a composition with a Christmas tree and children.

Large protrusions look great on a plain curtain and can completely replace complex decorations.

Composition of silhouette clippings with backlight

With openwork paper cutouts you can decorate not only the window, but also create a three-dimensional panorama on the windowsill. It will be especially impressive if you put a garland or small lights inside the box.

Get involved in the design of New Year's decorations - made of paper with your children. This is not only useful for developing imagination and training fine motor skills, but will also give you a lot of pleasure from joint creativity, and then from contemplating the resulting beauty!

If you want to create a festive Christmas atmosphere in your home, then I suggest you decorate your window beautifully and festively. Surprise your loved ones and friends by making an original Christmas window for Christmas, which will definitely not leave your family, friends and neighbors indifferent.
After all, looking at a beautiful Christmas window, your soul will always be joyful and warm. Templates for windows can be different, but since Christmas is coming soon, we’ll look at some beautiful Christmas angels that you can make with your own hands from paper. I think if you have the desire and a little free time, you will definitely make and decorate the window very beautifully, I don’t even doubt it.
I will upload angel ideas for you and you can choose them as you wish. Some stencils can be used as garlands.
Decorate your home and create a Christmas atmosphere in it.

The story of the Nativity of Christ.

The Nativity of Jesus Christ is celebrated differently in different churches; in Russia, Christmas is celebrated on January 7th. This is one of the most important holidays for Christians. The name “Jesus” means “Savior”, “Christ” means “Anointed One”, i.e. Jesus Christ is God's Anointed One, the King of Heaven and Earth, the Prophet and Savior of human souls. The Nativity of Christ marks a new era - the transition from paganism to Christianity, because for the forgiveness of the sins of all people, Jesus Christ came to earth, suffered like an ordinary person, and died on the Cross.

The Mother of God - Virgin Mary, together with her husband Joseph, lived in the Jewish city of Nazareth. After the Annunciation - the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel of the good news about the birth of the Son of God Jesus Christ - the Roman Emperor Augustus, who conquered Judea, decided to conduct a population census, which every resident of Judea had to take in the city of his birth.
Therefore, Mary and Joseph went to their homeland - to the city of Bethlehem, located somewhere 15 km from the capital of Judea - Jerusalem. The path was quite difficult, however, on the evening of January 6, Mary and Joseph reached Bethlehem, which was overcrowded with those wishing to take the census. All the hotels were occupied; out of despair, the Virgin Mary and Joseph decided to spend the night in a country cave, in which sheep usually slept at night. But that night the cave was empty, to the delight of the travelers.
It was in this very cave that the Savior, Jesus Christ, was born from Mary. The difficult life path of Jesus began not in a royal mansion or even in a house, but in an ordinary cave, on hard straw, which clearly characterizes the sacrificial life of Jesus Christ for the sake of saving us mere mortals, sinful people.

In that country there were shepherds in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. Suddenly an Angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were afraid with great fear. And the Angel said to them: Do not be afraid; I bring you good news of great joy, which will be to all people: for today a Savior has been born to you in the city of David, who is Christ the Lord; and here is a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly a large army of heaven appeared with the Angel, glorifying God and crying: glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!
When the Angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said to each other: let's go to Bethlehem and see what happened there, which the Lord told us about. And they hastened and came and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in a manger. When they saw it, they told about what had been announced to them about this Child. And all who heard were amazed at what the shepherds told them. But Mary kept all these words, writing them in her heart.

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem and said, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?” For we saw His star in the east and sewed it to worship Him. And behold, the star that they saw in the east walked before them, when it finally came and stood over the place where the Child was. Seeing the star, they rejoiced with very great joy, and, entering, they saw the Child with Mary, His Mother, and, falling down, they worshiped Him; and having opened their treasures, they brought Him gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh.
When they departed, behold, the Angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream and says: get up, take the Child and His Mother and run to Egypt, and be there until I tell you, for Herod wants to look for the Child in order to destroy Him. He got up, took the Child and His Mother at night and went to Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod.

This is the Christmas story that happened many years ago in Bethlehem.

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