Create your own interactive Nativity scene with this fun Build-A-Nativity printable set! Perfect for classroom centers, Sunday school lessons, Christmas parties, or at-home holiday fun. This set includes everything children need to build and retell the Christmas story:
Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus
Two angels
Shepherds and stable animals (cow, donkey, sheep)
Three Wise Men carrying gifts
Camels
Large stable background
All of the pieces are black-and-white line art, ready to color. The regular-size set is 6 pages: a full-page stable with a star on top, plus pages of figures and animals. Its directions suggest printing on tagboard and laminating, or mounting the scene on 12″x18″ construction paper, and the cutting lines are optional. In the 17-page 2x poster set, the stable prints across 4 pages that you trim and overlap to piece together, and the directions suggest tagboard or poster board.
Children can color, cut, and arrange the pieces to create their very own Nativity scene. Use it as a hands-on storytelling activity, a bulletin board display, a retelling center, or a take-home craft.
There is also a 2x poster size for a classroom-sized stable and characters! Here is the regular size version without the shepherds and wise men on 12″x18″ construction paper:
Build-A-Nativity Craft – 2x Super Size (Printable PDF – 17 pages)
Ways to use it
Retell the story: Read or tell the Christmas story and have children add each figure to the stable as that part comes up.
Story sequencing: Ask children to place the figures in the order they arrive in the story, from Mary and Joseph to the shepherds and then the Wise Men.
Felt or magnet board: Laminate the colored pieces and add felt, Velcro or magnet strips so children can build the scene again and again.
Group display: Use the 2x poster size for a large bulletin board or hallway Nativity, with small groups coloring different pieces.
Take-home craft: Send the regular-size pieces home in an envelope for families to color and put together.
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