The Christmas Story Trail

The Christmas Story Trail

The Christmas Story Trail can be set up around your building or local area and offers a fun and interactive way to explore the Christmas story. Each A4 poster features a different LEGO character from the Christmas story and a QR code that reveals a hidden augmented reality LEGO animation. Find all five posters to discover the whole Christmas story.

International shipping available.

The Christmas Trail

The augmented reality posters depict Mary and the angel, Joseph, the Shepherds, and the Wise Men, culminating in finding baby Jesus. Arrange the posters in various locations to create a fun ‘hunt,’ allowing people to discover the story and piece it together. 

Churches have used these posters around their church building, halls, in houses in a street or even in local shops!

If you would like to place your Christmas Story Trail outside then you can laminate the cards, which doesn’t affect the QR code or augmented reality photo.

They can also be placed in a window behind glass and still work.

What's included?

6 Professionally Printed A4 Card Posters

  • 5 A4 Search Posters (300gsm)
  • 1 A4 Introduction Poster (300gsm)

We’ll post the 6 A4 posters to you first class.

International shipping is available.

See how it works

  • Watch how the augmented reality trail works in the explanation video above
  • Or even better, try it using your own smartphone on the sample posters below. (Instructions are further down the page if useful)

The Five Search Posters

Price

£29.95

Or save over 25% when you buy our Easter and Christmas Trail Bundle

We also have an Easter Story Augmented Trail. If you buy your Christmas and Easter Trail together you save over 25%. The reduced bundle price for two sets is £44.50. You’ll receive 2 sets in the post: Christmas (6 Posters) & Easter (6 Posters).

Christmas Easter Bundle

Introduction Poster

This is the poster that introduces the Christmas Story Trail. Place this somewhere obvious that people will see so they know to start searching for Mary.

Christmas Trail poster

How does the Christmas Story Trail work?

  1. Arrange the posters in various locations to create a fun ‘hunt’, allowing people to discover the story and piece it together.
  2. Each poster has the same QR code on it. Participants only need to use the QR code once. Grant permissions for the Web-AR app to install and wait briefly for it to load.
  3. Then they can hover their smartphone over the picture with the red dotted lines on each of the posters to watch the different hidden evangelistic LEGO animation.
  4. Watch the Christmas story come to life in augmented reality.
  5. Keep going until you have found all five posters!

Give it a go yourself!

Here’s a screenshot of one of the search cards. Use your phone and following the instructions above you can watch the Wise Men’s story.

Wise Men example AR

Helpful Additional Resources

There’s a whole suite of resources accompanying the trail that can be used by families and churches to help children interact with the Christmas story and to share the gospel in your community.

Christmas Story Book

This is our very first book! It’s a faithful rhyming retelling of the Christmas story that will help Lego-loving children to engage with the Christmas story afresh, highlighting the surprise and excitement of who Jesus is and why he came.

Fun rhymes make for a memorable and enjoyable read, while richly coloured, glossy photographs of real brick builds will inspire kids to get creative! 

Christmas Video

Share the great news of Christ’s birth with this free heart-warming stop-motion film made from LEGO.

  • Available in 6 different accents
  • 4 minutes long
  • Free download
  • Ideal for use in services, children’s groups, and schools
  • Plus additional social media content

All-Age and Sunday School Plans

3 Sunday school sessions, including all-age talks, as well as a fun, interactive Christmas service to use in the lead up to Christmas.

Teacher's notes

Here’s some accompanying teacher’s notes to help teachers incorporate this parable video within a lesson or school assembly.

Notaichean an neach-teagaisg

Tha notaichean tidseir an cois seo gus cuideachadh le tidsearan a’ bhidio den chosamhlachd a chleachdadh ann an lùib leasan no seanadh-sgoile.