Nativity scene from felt templates. Christmas nativity scene made of paper with your own hands. Master class with photo. Making Christmas Angels

May this bright holiday give all adults and children real joy, which comes only from childhood! And let it be with us not only on holidays!

Merry Christmas!

I really love Christmas and everything connected with it: carols, family gatherings, small Christmas cribs with tiny figures, delicious kutya, funny people dressed up, Christmas stories ... I also love more modern things related to Christmas: cartoons and good films based on Christmas stories, Christmas wreaths and decor, a finger theater about the birth of a little God.

For several years I have been dreaming of buying a beautiful table nativity scene, but I still don’t find it the way I imagine. So that there are many figurines that can be played with, so that the figurines are made in a childishly naive and at the same time restrained (without smirks and bulging eyes - I came across those too :)

But recently I thought about a drawing of a nativity scene - a Christmas picture that each kid can color in his own way. Parents will help him cut and glue everything correctly. And now a beautiful table nativity scene with your own hands is ready!

Having searched, I, of course, found interesting samples, but still decided to draw my own. Unfortunately, due to my growing tummy and my daughter, who manages my time without permission, my idea was postponed. Just today, my husband and I finally finished our Christmas nativity scene. We hope that at Christmas time he will still have time to please the kids.

Blank-coloring of the scene of the Nativity of Christ

The barn and 14 figurines can be printed, colored, glued onto thick paper, cut and glued in the right places. You get characters that stand on their own.

With such a nativity scene, you can arrange a table performance about the Nativity of Jesus Christ. It seems to me that making a nativity scene together with a child is a great opportunity to tell him about sacred events, about the birth of an unusual Baby, about who the Magi are and why the star shone so brightly. In addition, by coloring the figures, it will be easier for the child to remember who is where, and what role he played in this story.

A few words about gluing:

The figures must be folded along the dotted lines so that the rectangle is at the base - the figure will stand on it. Fix on top with a little glue. Cut out three parts with the image of a barn along continuous lines, stick them on thick paper, bend the edges along the dotted lines, and glue them together. Get a big house. To make it stand steadily, you need to bend it along the dotted lines along the beams.

Today we will learn how to make a nativity scene with our own hands! Everyone's favorite holiday is approaching - Christmas, therefore, in order to create an appropriate solemn and festive atmosphere in the house, it is advisable to put one of these home-made nativity scenes in the most prominent place:

As you can see, these DIY Christmas crafts are made from a wide variety of materials! This is paper, this is wood, cardboard and even ... fabric!
Human fantasy has no limits! And if, in addition to imagination, skillful hands are added, then all kinds of man-made masterpieces will constantly come out from under them!

We make a Nativity scene with our own hands for Christmas from paper

To begin with, let's consider the simplest options for creating a Nativity scene from paper - garlands on windows made in the Christmas theme:

You can make them with a white sheet of paper, a simple pencil and scissors! The template can be downloaded from the Internet, and then simply printed, duplicated using paper and hung on the windows - it will be very beautiful and on topic!

Well, in order to be able to play small Christmas performances with the help of the Nativity Scene, you can make such a mini-theatre:

We offer you a very simple template, using which you can easily realize your desire to have a small Christmas puppet theater and often arrange mini-performances for your family and friends!

What is interesting - you can make figures from paper or cardboard and paste over them with bright colored paper, make applications. Or a simpler option - just paint with paints or bright felt-tip pens!

Scheme for the Nativity scene for Christmas

There are many options for making a nativity scene, consider another one, we offer all the necessary schemes with which you can easily do the job and get a lot of fun in the process of creating. Nativity Scene Templates:

For such a Nativity scene, you need to prepare a dense folding base. For this, thick cardboard folded in half, a candy box of a suitable size, or an old cardboard folding chessboard is suitable. We glue the base with suitable pictures or shiny paper, cut out and color the figures and install them in the designated places.

And one more version of the Christmas action in volume and on paper:

Just print on a color printer, cut and fold!
Sometimes crib games are printed in children's magazines, which are also quite simple to cut out and fold correctly according to the proposed instructions:

Look with your child, it may very well be that you are lucky and together you will make such a miracle for Christmas!

First of all, I picked up two boxes that were supposed to fit one into the other.

This "cranberry" in the photo will soon become an arch in the den.

But before that, I paste over all the details with paper crumpled and impregnated with glue. I dilute PVA glue with water 1/2. The size of the paper should be 1.5 times the area to be glued.

I'm making a ladder. This was done without any plan or sketch, so to speak, "how the hand leads"! Well, the hand trembled, so it turned out such a crook!

And here is the door to which my ladder leads.

And then I cover everything with paper. Don't forget to let it dry thoroughly! After all, when wet, cardboard loses its shape and it is better if each next step is done on a dry model!

Well, the first extension is pasted over and the handrails for the railing are made of wire twisted into a green napkin (the color does not matter, because there is still painting ahead).

After the first fitting, I realized that "the kingdom is not enough" and I really have nowhere to roam!

And therefore it was decided to glue two small catwalks for animals. And make one more extension in order to balance the big picture!

In parallel with the construction, I make grass. I cut the foam rubber as small as possible. This is not easy for me, because. small pieces stick to hands and interfere with work. Light antistatic treatment did not give a good effect. And I decided to just wet it. Helped! Painted with heavily diluted gouache.

And then she crushed the wet one more.

The plot on the theme "Christmas" - Christmas nativity scene.

Master class on the theme "New Year and Christmas"

"Christmas nativity scene" made of paper and junk material with your own hands. Master class with step by step photos.

Tsukanova Tatyana Petrovna, teacher, MKOUDO "Spas-Demenskaya Children's Art School", Spas-Demensk
Description: this material is intended for children of preschool, school age, creative parents, teachers of additional education, technology teachers, organizers of extracurricular activities.
Target: Creation of a plot composition, production of puppet characters for the "Christmas Nativity Scene".
Tasks:
- Teach how to make puppet characters from waste material with your own hands;
- teach how to make a "Christmas nativity scene";
- to acquaint with verses and riddles on the theme of the Birth of Christ.
- develop fine motor skills, imagination and encourage creative initiative,
- cultivate artistic taste, accuracy.
Purpose: use to decorate the interior during the days of Christmas trees; for a visual conversation with children on Christmas evenings; as a work for an exhibition; like a mini puppet theater; at home - to create comfort and anticipation of the holiday.
In this master class, I propose to make do-it-yourself puppet characters from paper and waste material for the "Christmas Nativity Scene".
Nativity scene (from the old Slavic vratp, other Russian vrtep - a cave, a gorge). In Christian worship, the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
Nativity scene - reproduction of the scene of the Nativity of Christ by means of various arts (sculpture, theater, etc.).
The night is quiet. On firm ground unsteady
The southern stars tremble.
Mother's eyes with a smile
Quiet looking into the manger.
No ears, no superfluous eyes,
Here the roosters crowed -
And for the angels in the highest
Shepherds praise God.
The manger quietly shines in the eyes,
Illuminated face of Mary.
Star choir to another choir
Hearing quivering pricked.
And above Him burns high
That star of distant countries;
With her are the kings of the East
Gold, myrrh and frankincense.
(A. Fet)
Materials and tools for making puppet characters:
Colored and white paper, foil and wrapping paper for gifts, colored cardboard (brown shades), glue stick, double tape, construction tape, scissors, pencil, thread, colored plain napkins, toilet paper sleeves, candy wrappers can be used.

Templates

character creation process
make a ball of napkins about 5 cm in diameter. Wrap in a gentle apricot napkin.

under a lump to pull off with a thread - this is the head.

The patterns are simple, you can copy the cells - "dress", cloak or vest.

According to the template, cut out a “dress” and a raincoat or vest from colored paper. Dress up the sleeve in a dress, that is, paste over with colored paper. Try on the head.

On the wrong side of the raincoat, glue hands - loops from a strip of napkin, (fold a rectangle 4 * 2.5 cm in three layers in length and in half in width). Glue the sleeves-sides to look neat.

Attach the head to the inside of the sleeve with a strip of tape.

Put on a raincoat, collar and sides fix with double tape. This is how it should turn out.

Put on a headdress - a napkin is folded with a scarf and a crown on top. This is one of the Magi.

According to this scheme, all the characters are going to, only they will be dressed differently. You can give free rein to fantasy, but observe the symbolic meaning of color in Orthodoxy.

The next character - a candy wrapper was used for his dress (I liked the pattern and the golden border). Let's shorten the cloak, and make another headdress.

Make a tourniquet from a white napkin, connect it into a ring according to the size of the head. Wrap with foil paper. Put a hemisphere of napkins on your head, a napkin and a ring on top.

That's it from the side!

The Magi are ready to travel.

Character Joseph- put on him a brown-orange vestment.

We will collect all the details. According to the template, cut out a beard and part of the hair from brown paper. Glue on the crown, give the shape of the head

Let's try on a nimbus on the head ... (Nimbus (from lat. nimbus - cloud, cloud) - a symbol for the radiance around the head of images of Christ, the Mother of God, saints, etc., symbolizing their holiness. It comes in different shapes (round, triangular, hexagonal etc.) and different colors Nimbus - Wikipedia) We will connect the hands with a strip of napkin - we will thread it into the loops from above, like a hairpin, and it will turn out like this.

The Virgin Mary: For her, we will shorten the sleeve by 1.5 cm. We will choose blue and blue colors for clothes, use a silver satin ribbon for the collar and headband.

Baby: We cut the sleeve into 2 halves, we will use one. We cut it lengthwise and roll it into a thinner one, fix it with tape. We wrap it with a napkin and glue it - this will be the face. Cut out a 3 cm strip from yellow paper, cut it with a fringe, stick it in a circle. Curl your hair

Cut off a strip from the sleeve 0.5 cm wide, you get a rim. Glue a strip of golden foil paper on it with adhesive tape. So arrange halos for Mary, Joseph and the Baby. Put on a halo, fasten it to the back. Swaddled in a snow-white napkin

and tie with golden braid. Let's draw sleeping eyes and a smiling mouth.

this is how it should turn out.

nursery also from the sleeve - cut along

Bend one third of the part on both sides, the appearance of a trough will remain.

On the legs, make horizontal cuts of 0.8 cm, two strips 3 * 1.5 cm. cut and connect, inserting into the cuts until it stops.

It turned out like this

Put hay on the manger - cut the edges with a fringe

And put a baby on them.

Goby: Glue one side of the sleeve with construction tape crosswise, paste over the sleeve with colored paper with an allowance of 0.5 on the front and 2 cm on the back. Cut the allowance on the back into trapezoids to fold over and seal the entire circle. Tail - a strip of 12 * 2 cm, fold in three, glue, make a brush at the end.

Cut out the head, muzzle, horns from cardboard according to the templates. Assemble with double tape.

Attach the head to the side of the sleeve. Legs - cut two rings from the sleeve 1 cm wide across,

glue to the body of the bull with double tape. Here is a bull.

Let's put it next to the manger ...

In a manger I slept on fresh hay
Quiet tiny Christ.
The moon, emerging from the shadows,
I stroked the flax of his hair ...
The bull breathed in the face of the baby
And, rustling straw,
On a flexible knee
I looked around, breathing a little.
Sparrows through roof poles
They rushed to the manger in a crowd,
And the bull, clinging to the niche,
The blanket crumpled with his lip ...
(S.Cherny)
I will tell you how to make a sheep in the next Master class.
As the characters are being made, the action is played out, Joy is in the soul! Here is Mary and Joseph at the manger with the baby.

And here are the Magi (this picture shows how to make Joseph's hair). Cut the strip with a fringe and glue the uncut part to the back of the head.

Making the Plot "Christmas Nativity Scene"
Having arranged the characters, I figured out how much space the whole plot would take. Suitable box 40*30*20. Let's put the box on its side, glue a piece of wallpaper on the floor of our "cave". With the help of double tape we will attach the golden wrapping paper with silver stars, and the roof and the top of the box with blue wrapping paper. Let's use the angels from the previous cutting lessons. All templates are taken from the Internet pages. We will attach the singing angels upstairs, next to the Guiding Star.

An angel on the back wall - let him look at the baby. Let's place an openwork angel on the right side sash.

We will attach the angels playing musical instruments and flying with the message to the stars with the help of threads on adhesive tape to the ceiling. Let's put a Goby and a Sheep in the depths, to the left of us - the family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus Christ.

We will “give” gifts into the hands of the Magi

Attach with a hairpin using loop hands. Gold,

Smyrna

Incense.

On the right are the Magi with gifts.

On the left wing we will attach a plot cut out of paper ...

We will attach an electric garland and silver tinsel with clothespins and adhesive tape. Here's what happened.

A little secret is to put one of the light bulbs at the head of the Baby.

Here's what ended up happening

This is on the Christmas tree in the district House of Culture

During the show and after

Here is the collective work of my students at the exhibition “1st Bethlehem Star Festival”.

The technique of making clothes is the same, but on top there is an appliqué of the face, hats are held by the rim. Each child was able to complete 1 character in one lesson, cut out angels and assemble a composition - 2 more lessons. "Christmas riddle verses for children 9-13 years old" author: Svetlana (taken from the Internet) helped us get acquainted with the plot and characters
In the hot East, among the mountains and the desert, lies the Holy Land - ... (Palestine).
In that ancient country known to all of us, there is a small town ... (Bethlehem).
Once, by order of the king, the Holy One came here to sign up ... (family).
Now their names are known to everyone in the world: Joseph the Betrothed and the Virgin ... (Mary).
Then they were unknown, and of a poor appearance, but both from the royal family (David).
Joseph and Mary passed the whole city, but still they did not find a shelter for themselves ... (they did not find it).
And only in the field a cave with cattle replaced them with a temporary ... (house).
In that same cave, a little later, the Virgin Mary was born ... (Child).
And with joy an angel descended from heaven, and before the shepherds in the field ... (appeared).
“Do not be afraid, I brought good news to you: today the Savior was born - ... (Christ)!
In a cave, in a manger, lying on a canopy, you will see the Holy ... (Baby).
And immediately many angels appeared to them singing ... (“Glory to God in the highest!”)
Immediately the shepherds went to the cave, and there Mary with the Baby ... (found).
In joy to God, they prayed and low to Christ the shepherds ... (bowed).
And after the Infant bow was brought by the magi from the distant Persian ... (land).
For many days she led them here, appearing in the sky a big ... (star).
They passed mountains, steppes, seas, under a star born to see ... (King). …
And again a star appeared in front of them, above the house with the Baby ... (stopped).
The Magi bowed to Christ to the ground, gifts, as the King, to Him ... (Brought).
They handed treasures to the Savior of the World: ... (gold, frankincense and myrrh). DIY Christmas bells from waste material Master class with step by step photos

Several centuries ago, a wonderful Christmas tradition appeared in Rus' - a puppet show that tells about the birth of the baby Jesus. In those days, people enjoyed watching actors act out scenes from the Bible, and rejoiced at the great miracle all together. If you want to arrange an unforgettable holiday for the kids, then hurry up to make a small home theater, or nativity scene, with your own hands. With it, you can not only decorate your apartment and fill it with magic, but also introduce children to the history of Christmas.

What is a vertep?

Ancient nativity scenes were a large wooden box, made in the form of a two-story house. In the upper part of this building were figures of Mary, Joseph and the baby. On the lower tier, an action took place that told about the evil King Herod and his minions. The heroes of such stories often became contemporaries of the actors: a soldier, a priest, a gypsy, a peasant, and many other characters. In our time, a wonderful tradition of playing such performances is only being revived. You can make a nativity scene with your own hands with the whole family, and then gather at it in the evenings, talk, read books and admire beautiful pictures. These gatherings will remain in the memory of your child for many years and will warm him even in the most difficult times.

There are many ways to create a home. But for all performances, you will need a large box, which will serve as a stage. It is absolutely not necessary to make it from wood or other heavy materials - shoe or from under household appliances are perfect. Paste the future scene inside and out with foil and decorate with foil stars. You can create decorations from natural or waste material, colored paper and Christmas decorations. Figurines of heroes for such a theater are made in various ways. For example, they can be made from paper, clay, or ready-made toys. Some craftsmen create shadow theater, which is very popular with both children and adults. In our article we will tell you how to make a nativity scene with your own hands out of paper. The process of creating such a theater will be no less exciting than watching the performance itself. And if the rest of the family members join the work, then everyone will remember the fun pastime for a long time.

To make the main characters of the home theater, you will need the following materials:

Thin cardboard and paper for drawing.

Scissors and glue.

Paints, colored pencils, felt-tip pens and plasticine.

From cardboard, make small cones that will serve as the basis for the figures of the mother of Jesus, Righteous Joseph and the Magi. Draw faces on paper, cut them out and carefully glue them on the front side. Now you can start coloring. Depict the costumes, make an applique, add plasticine details. The hands of the heroes can also be drawn separately and glued to the body. Remember that a do-it-yourself crib is not an exam in fine art, which means that you do not need to strive for ideal shapes and colors. Make this process a pleasure and enjoy the work that unites and brings your whole family together.

Animal figurines

Remember who surrounded the divine infant in the first hours of his life. Figures of sheep and donkeys can be drawn on paper and placed on a stable stand so that they can be easily moved. If you know how to sculpt from clay or dough, then make animals from these materials.

baby figurine

Doing it with your own hands, do not forget about the main hero of the occasion - the newborn Jesus. To depict a manger, you will need a small box of perfume or matches. Paste the cradle with colored film, cut straw from brown paper and stick it on top in random order. Draw a baby figure on paper, color it in and glue it to the box. Install a manger in the most honorable place, and hang over them, which two thousand years ago announced a great miracle to all the peoples of our planet.

Other ways to make a paper crib

A Christmas composition made according to templates will greatly facilitate your work. It is enough just to save the pictures to your computer, print and transfer them to thick cardboard. Be sure to give the silhouettes of the holy family stability by using coasters made of the same material. To decorate the frame, take a cardboard box, remove one wall and bottom. The roof of the future nativity scene can be made curved, and transparent plastic can be used for the back wall. Glue openwork tape or braid around the perimeter of the front part to close the uneven edges of the box. After that, you can glue the figures to the bottom of the box, and place a star on the roof. Since our work looks a little sketchy, it will look best in Place a candle or a small flashlight behind the composition and turn off the light. Now the picture looks mysterious and evokes thoughts of the most beautiful days in the life of mankind.

How to put on a show

After you have made a Christmas nativity scene with your own hands, be sure to come up with several scenarios for the puppet show. If you want to comply with all the canons of old Russian ideas, then you will have to make a few additional characters. You might want to see an angel in a makeshift cave announcing the birth of Jesus. Or maybe you will draw the evil King Herod, who will order to kill all the babies in the country. In ancient times, children were shown scenes in which a cruel ruler meets death. She appears to the king in the form of a terrible skeleton and throws him into the underworld. The performance may be accompanied by singing, poetry reading, and after its completion there may be a game of questions and answers. Your little ones will enjoy repeating what they have learned this evening and look forward to the next performances.