Nativity Plays

[smallblueplanet]

Well I blame Seahorse for this one!

She was talking about finding costumes for her kids in charity shops, and it weren't like that in her day...which got me thinking...

It was like that in my day, costumes courtesy of mums & dads...we were all 'star-struck'

I'm one of the shepherds - I do remember that Joesph got given my costume cos it was too good for a shepherd! Typical ay!

Probably about 1970...


By smallblueplanet

[Seahorse]

Lol! Fab pic! I think I know which one is you but enlighten us all please (so I don't embarrass mesen!).

Anyway, I'm quite sure MY school had a steady supply of dressing gowns, tea towels and vaguely 'Eastern' stuff that kid's Mums had worn when they were hippies!* How times change!

*Edited to add - having just thought properly about this whole issue for the first time in around thirty years... it's entirely possible that it was in fact my rather 'unusual' Mum costuming the entire North Yorkshire 'Three Kings' department :0

[smallblueplanet]

Standing, front, left with crook!

[lynda66]

i have just remembered that i was a fish seller in our school nativity ..... and i was wearing something blue and glittery.......... but i cant for the life of me remember why i was selling mackerel at the birth of a baby

[Two_Sheds]

It was great when parents used to make the costumes out of old curtains - our class now can't come up with a costume unless Asda sells one ready-made.

Last year our shepherds were sent to rehearsals with not even a tea towel ... Mums didn't have the wit to invent something, just expected Teacher to provide everything.

(I know all Mums aren't that bad, don't be down on me)

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Step-daughter's nativity play is all non-religious ... she's being a hyena. No, I couldn't make a hyena out of a tea towel and a piece of string either

[jaykay]

We have a selection of costumes in school and the children can use these for the infant nativity. The children are 'fitted' in school, then their costume is sent home for the parents to wash if they want to (they are put away clean after the previous year's play). Most parents seem happy with this, although they can provide their own outfit if they wish.

[smallblueplanet]

i have just remembered that i was a fish seller in our school nativity ..... and i was wearing something blue and glittery.......... but i cant for the life of me remember why i was selling mackerel at the birth of a baby

I've just looked at our picture again and I can see shepherds, angels, kings, M&J and 'others'! I wonder who the 3 on the rhs were?

[Alison]

My God son was a polar bear in his nursery's play last year. I didn't understand either. Have a great piccie of my as the angel Gabriel somewhere, had to stand on a box and narate as it went along, thought that I was VERY important at the time. Mum made me a white outfit out of some old material and trimmed it with gold tinset and the halo was also a tinsel creation. Don't know about the wings but they were probably trimmed in gold also, all very bling. Shepherds wore tea towels and baby Jesus was a small doll.

[jackie j]

I dont know how he managed it but my son was Angel Gabriel when he was about six in infant school, he certainly was no angel. lol. Now a strapping 6ft plus nearly 30 year old dad, with the word Angel tattoed on his lower back !!! my how time has flown.

[Seahorse]

I've just looked at our picture again and I can see shepherds, angels, kings, M&J and 'others'! I wonder who the 3 on the rhs were?

You didn't do a production of Robin Hood earlier that year, did you?