The Nativity Scene

It is that time of year again, time for Yaincoa’s optional nativity scene competition for school. The specifications for this year’s competition are simple: it should be no bigger than the size of a shoe box, and it should be made out of recycled material!

For some parents, this may sound daunting, making something like this, personally I wouldn’t know where to begin, but Xavi is the king of paper mache!  He and Yaincoa have made all sorts of things out of paper mache including a fake arm cast, a little mini part of a golf course, a giant shoe kicking through the ceiling and a rather large house of terror! I was excited to see what they would do this year. We researches nativity scenes and found out that the location was actually inside a cave, I always thought it was in a barn or room of some sorts, so that was a surprise. We all threw some ideas on the table and then decided on a room in a cave! They made the room out of cardboard, and then cut out little bricks from the cardboard. The stuck bricks on the outside and inside of the room. Then they made roof tiles out of the inner of a roll of kitchen paper. The mountains were made out of paper mache, and real bits of trees were used to make mini trees. The bodies of Mary, Joseph and Jesus were then made out of rolled cardboard, their heads were made form paper mache and their clothing was made from scrap pieces of leather material.

The end result? Spectacular in my opinion!!!