Nativity Scene

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!