INSIDE : Learn how to make a Nativity Scene for the Christmas season out of simple wooden clothespins from your local craft supply store.
As Christmas approaches, I have been trying to shift my focus from the typical buy buy buy that is so easily our mindset and onto what the real focus should be, the birth of Jesus.
I thought creating a fun Nativity Scene for my kids to play with would be a wonderful way to make it more real. It was finally time to break out my spare clothes pins and I am so thrilled with the outcome!
I also wrote a post about 7 tips to Slow Down during the Christmas Season.
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What supplies do I need to make a Clothes pin Nativity Scene?
Yellow button for the guiding star (i added mine after all the pictures were taken)
How do I make a simple wooden Nativity Scene?
Start by sanding all of your wood pieces. Next, paint all of the wooden parts of your manger and allow them to fully dry. I painted the base of the manger white, the interior of the roof a soft blue and the back of the manger pieces, yellow.
Start to slowly assemble them using a hot glue gun. I built the roof first and secured it to the main base. I, then added the yellow back pieces one at a time.
How do I make a simple wooden Clothespin Nativity Scene people?
Next, sand smooth all the clothes pins selected to be your Nativity characters. I cut down one clothes pin about in half, to be baby Jesus. Using a flesh color, paint the heads, necks and shoulders of all the people.
Now, this is the fun part. Using different colors, paint on each person’s hair. I also added facial hair for the three wise-men and Joseph. And apparently in my Nativity, Joseph is quite the hipster with that mustache.

I selected paint and ribbon for each character and proceeded to paint everyone’s “pants”.
Using ribbon, I made each character’s outfit and secured with hot glue.
Everyone got a pair of eyes and the ladies got little pink lips using permanet markers. A steady hands is the name of the game here, folks.
I intended for this to be a set that my kiddo’s could play with, but being only 1 + 2, this is a little too fragile for them still. But, oh it is adorable.
{Wondering who this Jesus is all about?}
You might want to check out some of my other fun Christmas projects, here!
Making this today for our homeschool group’s Craft Day.
Loved the pictures, thanks so much for sharing them!!
Amy these little people are adorable! What a great way to represent Christmas! Thank you so much for linking up to Get Your DIY On! I hope you’ll join us today with your “all-star” projects!!
Mandy @ The Hankful House Blog
This is so sweet and it would make a wonderful gift! Thanks so much for sharing! π
This is absolutely adorable! I need to make one for my daughter..she’s been asking for one!
What a great way to remind us who Christmas is all about..JESUS!
Thanks, Selene. It’s a fun way that the kids can play and learn about the Nativity at the same time!
Joseph is a cutie LOL!! Love this modern and fresh take on the nativity scene, Amy!
Hey Amy! These are just darling. I’m sure they are going to do well in your Etsy shop.
You’ve been featured today. Thanks for linking up to Gingerly Made’s Show & Tell party! http://www.gingerlymade.com/2013/11/show-tell-features_12.html
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ginger! And thank you also for featuring them on your blog today!!
This is so adorable and mod. Love, love, love it, Amy!
Aw, thanks Allison. It’s one of my favorite Christmas projects I’ve done, I think!
Stopping by from the Link Party Palooza :). This is such a sweet and meaningful project! I love all the little details you added to make it special. My little boys would adore this. Going to have to attempt it!
Stopping by from the Linky Party Palooza π This is so precious! Love all the little details. I’m definitely going to have to attempt something similar for my boys.
Thanks for stopping by! Yes, I can’t wait for the Christmas season to officially start so my kiddo’s can start playing with it.
This is so adorable and creative!! I absolutely love this take on the classic Nativity scene, and the colors you used are so beautiful! I want to make one for myself, thanks for sharing this!! π
Thanks so much, Brittany! These colors are kind of my craze right now… can’t get enough of them. Thanks for stopping by.
I love this! My mother collects nativities but she doesn’t have one like this. I might just have to make her one!
Lucy, yes I’m sure she would love a clothes pin nativity scene! I know my mother keeps “subtly” dropping hints about getting one, ha! Thanks for stopping by.
Hi, I love this idea and you did a great job and it’s creative. I saw it on domestic superhero. Julie at julieslifestyle.blogspot.com
Super cute! We love this project so much that we are featuring you this Friday as my personal favorite! Thank you so much for taking the time to linking up with The Party Bunch!
Desiree
Thank you for stopping by Desiree and also for the feature!!
Very cute..
Very, very cute! Love the little angel in the back!
What a fun idea! I love how simple it is.
I love this, Amy! What a great way to make an original and creative nativity. We don’t really do the storefront Christmas in our home, but now that my daughter’s two, I’d love to have a simple nativity set for her to play with that we can teach the real Christmas story with. Love this idea so much. I could make it toddler friendly so easily.
Thanks so much for all the love, Jelli. I was really excited to share this project with everyone, glad you got some inspiration from it!
A. dor. a. ble! Just love this, Ames. I’m so happy you drew my name for Christmas! Wink, wink.
Ha! Thanks Shelley. If they didn’t take a while to make, I’d totally whip up a few extras to send your way!
Really cute! Love the colors π
Love everything about this. A modern twist on a classic and the colors!!!! Love, love, love (and pinning!)
Corey from Tinysidekick.com
Thanks so much, Corey! I’m pretty in love, too!
I love how simply beautiful this is! and I love that it’s not the typical Christmas colors. This would be so nice in my daughters room. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration.
Thanks, Michelle. I’m going for a whole year with non.traditional colors. So far, so good… we’ll see when Christmas comes around though.
I love the colors you chose and I’m hoping to make my own nativity set π visiting from I heart naptime linky.
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Ursula π
Thanks, Ursula! I’d love to see how yours turns out.