How to Organize a Nativity Play on Christmas Eve
Christian's celebrating the Christmas holiday often recognize the birth of Jesus. Reenacting the Nativity story on Christmas Eve is a fun way to teach children the Christmas story and a great way to help pass the time on the much anticipated evening. With a bit of planning and supplies already on hand, a semi-Broadway production of the Christmas story can grace your living room. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Assign parts to family members. Cast Mary, Joseph, the Shepherds, Wisemen and the Angel Gabriel. Dress extra cast members as animals like sheep, oxen, donkeys and pigs. Use a baby doll for Jesus if there are not babies in the family.
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Gather costumes from the closets. Use bathrobes, sheets, long jackets and long dresses. Do not worry about color or exactness--it is part of the fun.
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Make a stable backdrop. Use several large pieces of drawing paper and sketch a stable or go extravagant and use actual pieces of wood.
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Have an adult, or well read child, read the story of Jesus' birth from the Bible.
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Assign an adult to direct children onto the "stage" when it is time for their part. Have the actors stand in their places until the play is complete.
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Run through a brief dress rehearsal early in the evening so that the actors will be familiar with their places during the play.
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Lead children and adults in Christmas carols as they pertain to the story. Sing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" after the part of the Angel Gabriel is read.
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Tips & Warnings
Use flashlights to spotlight the actors as they are read from the Bible.
Assign small speaking parts to older children and adults.
Record the play and watch it on Christmas day.
