Creating a Nativity Scene

                      Creating a Nativity Scene - Reliving memories from childhood

This Christmas season I relived my childhood memories of making a Nativity scene with my family. Growing up in Goa, a nativity crib was always part of our Xmas. This year as well we had this wonderful experience with some added creativity, and plenty of involvement from my kids and my family we created a remote controlled musical nativity :-)

1)  The black background is the starry night. The silver stars were made by my kids with some help from me. In green there is a caption written by my child which says "Jesus is Born"

2) In the background are angels, harps, a camel ,and the city of Bethlehem (cut out on cardboard)

3) The angel is standing upon a sturdy speaker which is connected to a music system below the tables holding the nativity.

4) The lights at the bottom are dancing lights and the lights on the stable are pearl lights. 

 5) The stable is made from cardboard with a thatched hay roof made on contact paper (liners for shelves) . The stable area is filled with hay at the bottom. With 2 levels inside the stable.

 6) The three kings are standing in sand (kid's play sand) The box at the back is from my kid's toys and is filled with shining stones. The blue is a water pond (outlined with blue paper and filled with water)
 

7) The blue building is the inn and the shepherd has his herd of sheep, with donkeys and horses behind them. There are a total of 13 animals in this nativity besides the characters. The palm tree was made by my kids using card paper. The brown patch are chocolate wrappers put together.

8) Overall it was a wonderful effort and lot of man-hours but a very rewarding experience for me and my family :-)