Christmas nativity ideas

[zigzag]

SORRY in advance for mentioning the C word!  Just wondering if any of you do an alternative Christmas play/nativity?  We always do a various form of the traditional nativity but would love to do something a bit different that perhaps weaves in characters that the children actually like to dress up as (Frozen, super hero’s etc). I like to have a play that rhymes as I personally find it easier to narrate that way.(Its my worst nightmare every year narrating the nativity) but I am not very imaginative in my writing, just wondering if anyone has anything like this that they would be happy to share?  The other thing is, we only have half the usual amount of children this year with only 12 children! So are a bit limited.  Would be interested to hear what others are doing. ?

[Mouseketeer]

Might have to let you off the c word zigzag, I had a sudden flash of panic as I realised ours is only 3 weeks away and we’ve done nothing about it, we’ve done the same version of a Navity play for donkeys years ;-), i also hate narrating it and live in hope every year that mice have eaten the costumes whilst in storage so we can cancel lol, I’ve been known to send the shepherds off to visit baby Jesus and he’s still on the floor behind the curtains :-/ it lasts all of 10 minutes if that and then we sing a few Christmas songs, often think I’d like to try something different but always leave it too late, so can’t help with an alternativeit’s really, it’s only committee/parent pressure that we keep doing it at all. Good Luck

[NickyR]

We are doing our old favourite this year....Whoops a Daisy Angel. (Not the whole book)  In the past we did a Christmas around the world performance, with all the children dressing up in traditional native costumes....the Aussie hat with corks on sticks in my head and still makes me chuckle.