Build A Manger For Baby Jesus

Draw on baby jesus face and some lines to make the swaddling.

Build a manger for baby jesus.

Roll the baby jesus craft up and glue it into a cylinder. A few years after we had built our house we purchased an outdoor nativity set that came with mary joseph and baby jesus so we could display an outdoor nativity scene. Choose your face colour from the baby jesus craft printable and cut it out along with the white rectangle. The set tends to blow over very easily and i was tired of constantly picking up the pieces.

Every time someone does something kind invite that person to place a piece of straw in the manger to welcome the baby jesus. Place a manger in your home. Make your own manger for baby jesus. We loved the idea.

Then and there tim and i decided that we would use a manger as the focus of our christmas décor. Deciding to build a manger. And i try to make things as cheap as i can but i want visuals that i can use over and over. Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in christ jesus who though he was in the form of god did not count equality with god a thing to be grasped but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men.

Space the 7 remaining pieces of wood along the top of the legs to create the manger. To create the slatted look begin by placing one piece of wood across the sets of legs at the place where they meet in the middle of the v shape they create. I like to have hands on visuals for my class as much as possible. Use a hammer and nails to nail the piece into the v on both sets of legs.

Build the body of the manger.