Getting Crafty

Some of us are missing a craft gene, others are very pregnant and in need of a simple nativity craft.  I picked up this box at the local Catholic store for only $7.99.

The box is filled with plain ceramic nativity figurines in need of painting.  My children LOVED painting them and they then insisted that we make a manger scene (I should have anticipated this).

I wanted something requiring little work on my end.  I settled on a simple shoebox nativity.  We then made this–

I want to emphasize that it was VERY simple.  I cut the top of the box to flatten it, then folded it in half and taped it with scotch tap to the bottom part of the box to make a triangle shaped roof.  I had the children glue brown paper squares to the top and sides.  We gathered some grass and pine needles for the floor.  We then cut out and glittered a star that I secured with a paper clip.  They have been playing with it daily and the figurines have held up well in the hands of our energetic two year old, otherwise known around here as  “Claire the destroyer.”