God invites Fluffy on a journey through the Old Testament Prophets, through the concept of Messiah, the announcement by Angels, the visit of Mary to Elizabeth, the trip to Bethlehem, the Birth according to Luke 2, the announcement to the Shepherds, and the story of Herod and the Magi.

Fluffy is an animated sheep. And quite frankly, she'd like to hear the story in a little less detail, ...but you know God.

God appears as a lightning bolt-filled cloud bursting with things to say. God narrates, animates, adds interactive tidbits, provided pop-up texts and buttons, background info, humorous quips, and questions to poor little Fluffy throughout the CD. It's all quite animated and interactive. God spared no expense!

Because Christmas comes around every year, we designed this CD's content with several distinct content areas so that you can use this CD several Advents in a row with a wide age range without repeating content. 

Within each area, students are lead by God through the content, but navigational options pop up along the way allowing you to skip certain parts of the story if you want.

Don't let the name fool you..."Fluffy" isn't just for young children!  We designed it so that even young teenagers will enjoy it. Several content pieces are particularly designed for the older crowd, and the younger crowd can enjoy them too with a little help.

Overview of Fluffy and God...

Fluffy & God' Christmas CD has 5 major areas, each deep in animation and activities:

1.  "Promises Promises" ....Old Testament Prophets, Isaiah 9
2.  "Yo Mary and Joe" ....Mary, Joseph and the Angel
3.  Bethlehem and the Birth of Jesus
4.  Shepherd and Angels
5.  The Magi ...looking for Christ.

A sixth area called "DJ FLUFFY JAM" is a Christmas hymn machine that gets kids creating their own version of two traditional Christmas hymns. Fun, and ripe for discussion. See more details below.

Throughout the CD... God tells poor Fluffy far more than "just the facts" of the Christmas story. God explains WHY he wanted to bring the Messiah into the world, what the people's response was, and should be. God encourages students to celebrate Christmas with deeper meaning. God's narrations are fully animated and include quite a bit of humor. Fluffy is the comic foil.

Each of the five main areas is a self-contained unit with introductory story material, background notes and learning activities, including reflection activities. Typically, a Sunday School class might try to do TWO of the areas each year. Each of the areas can take between 15 and 25 minutes to complete, depending on the area, and how well the teacher manages the students through the content (rather than letting them race through it).

You could explore one or two of the CD's areas this year with each grade -rotating them in to use  Fluffy. Or you could have one class spend several weeks in a row -exploring all Fluffy has to offer. Fluffy is also popular as a gift, and because it's fun and interactive, the kids enjoy getting it out each year to reacquaint themselves with the story and Fluffy.

Section Highlights:

The Old Testament Prophets section, titled "Promises Promises" in this CD, has enough learning activities in it for your first year all by itself. It's by far the largest section with interactive and animated material on the Prophet's hope for a messiah, the meaning of the word messiah, and how you too can be a prophet. (We really felt this was an often over-looked part of Advent teaching).

God explains what a prophet is, what they're message was about the Messiah. God talks about the problems Israel had with its Kings, and even provided a matching game for some of the more famous Kings. There's an interactive "Jesse Tree" showing Jesus' relations (and has a spot for the student's name). It can be filled out onscreen and printed as a take home, or printed for later use.

View a graphic showing some of the interactive menus and activities available in "Promises, Promises."

God has a little fun with poor Fluffy in YO! Mary & Joe when he decides to let Fluffy be the angel announcing the birth. Of course, Matthew and Luke each treat the angel's announcement differently, and God explains that to Fluffy in a humorous way. Tucked inside Yo! is Mary Visits Elizabeth and a fun animation about their meeting, and John & Jesus' meeting. In this area your students will also have the opportunity to express their "joy" about Christmas just like Mary did in her song, -by creating their own version of Mary's Song of Joy, --which considers the reasons why John the baby baptist boy was excited in his mom's tummy by the coming birth of Jesus.  

On the Road to Bethlehem is a short transitional area which introduces "why Bethlehem" and has one of the funniest scenes in the CD. Ever seen a sheep riding a donkey? You will.

When Fluffy gets to Bethlehem, she can tour "the Bethlehem House" to learn what the "inn" and setting of Jesus' birth (in a family's guestroom) was probably like. She can also do the Super Jesus Fluffimation, or visit Luke 2 Theater for "Birth of Jesus -The Movie," a fun presentation of Luke 2 scripture.

After visiting Bethlehem... Fluffy can pop over to the Shepherd's Field and learn about God's exciting invitation to welcome the Christ child. If she wants to visit the baby Jesus, she must take The Shepherds Quiz. If she gets at least 8 out of 10 questions correct in the Shepherds Quiz, she is invited to go visit the Baby Jesus. Once inside the house, the characters gathered there "ponder" several important questions about what it all means. (Shepherds Quiz is new in version 1.2 and the visit with Baby Jesus was enhanced.) This is a great place to stop with built-in reflection questions.

Further down the road is "Following Yonder Star" --the Magi's Observatory. The Observatory is another one of those learning areas that's a complete lesson unto itself for what ever year you want to stop in and go through all its interactive learning materials. What did the Magi do? What is a Magi? Who was Herod? What's Frankincense and Myrrh and why did the Magi give them to Jesus? What gifts does Jesus want? There's even a fun game called "Fluffy vs Herod." When students win the game, they discover several questions to consider. Following Yonder Star received the most enhancements in version 1.2.

Fluffimations are interactive reflection activities scattered throughout the CD. These are high-tech mad-lib-like activities where your students re-phrase certain key words in a famous scripture from the Christmas story with their own thoughts and vocabulary. (Mary's Song of Joy, Isaiah 9, etc)

Like a mad-lib, students complete a fill-in-the-blank screen with their own words. Then Fluffy comes onscreen to speak their words into a pre-defined script about the subject (enhanced in version 1.2) The results are fresh, usually quite thought-provoking, and often humorous as Fluffy tries to speak certain words. See an example.

All the Fluffimations in this CD are designed to create discussion between students as they complete the fill-ins, and to be played for each other and the teacher -creating more discussion!Because students can keep changing their input into the Fluffimations, the results are always new. Young children will need help with creating the Fluffimations, but will enjoy hearing "their words" spoken by Fluffy.

After your journey, Fluffy and your kids can play the carol game: DJ FLUFFY JAM. We've taken two familiar Christmas hymns and given your students a set of tools to select new lyrics, instruments and sound effects. The results are fun, never the same twice, and can be quite though provoking.  View our DJ Fluffy Jam screenshot.

Notes for Teachers:
Discussion questions are salted throughout the content of this CD. The Fluffimation activities are meant to be discussed, and done over again. Fluffy & God's Amazing Christmas Advent-ure also includes SEVERAL printable learning activities for use in the classroom as a group or personal reflection onscreen. There's no way you can go through all of Fluffy in one classtime. There's just too much content, and too many activities. We designed it to be used in sections over a period of several classtimes, or one or two sections a year.

Age Notes: To save your budget, we've purposely designed Fluffy with content that will work across a wide age range. Thus, younger children will need some navigational and reading help. Older students will appreciate the humor throughout the CD, and we've salted in extra content for them (or for the teacher). Our Fluffy Worksheets help keep students accountable for content. Read our Fluffy Outline and Teaching Tips for more information about teaching with Fluffy.

$25.50 for one copy. Two to Four Copies: $20.50 each Five or more Copies: $18.50 each Eight or more Copies: $16.50 each You will need to buy one copy of Fluffy for every computer you wish to run it on. And you'll likely use it each Advent for several years. SYSTEM MINIMUM: Fluffy and God require a Windows 98se/Me/XP/Vista/Windows7, or Mac 8, 9, X (in classic mode). Minimum 333+mhz of processing power, 64+ mb of RAM and 8 mb of videoram minimum.

Older students will enjoy all Fluffy's content, sense of humor, and can dig deeper into the background and meaning of Advent using Fluffy's deeper learning areas and activities. For example, the PROPHETS section has a '101' level and a '201' level. '201' material is not narrated and deals more about the concept of what a prophet is and isn't. In the MAGI section, the deeper content ponders "what was the star of Bethlehem" and what signs God might give us to his presence.

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SYSTEM MINIMUM: Fluffy and God require a Windows 98se/Me/XP/Vista, or Mac 8, 9, X (in classic mode).  333+mhz of processing power, 64+ mb of RAM and 8 mb of videoram.

For best performance of all the animations in this CD, be above these minimums.