This year we brought the nativity story alive by experiencing the gifts that the wise men brought the baby Jesus. As a child I remember wondering what the gifts of frankincense and myrrh were like and this year, I ordered a bottle of the oils. I emptied a drop or two of each oil onto a cotton wool ball and placed the cotton wool balls into these beautifully crafted pill boxes from India. In the third box, I added a little gold cross.
Once the children had smelled the frankincense and myrrh, I added one of the oils to a burner to see whether they could guess which oil was burning. This was quite difficult as frankincense and myrrh do not smell that different. Frankincense was, in my view, a slightly heavier smell than myrrh.
What we used:
- Essential oils of frankincense and myrrh
- Gold cross
- Small pill boxes
- Small tray
- Oil burner
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