DD’s nativity play - does cow person mean person dressed as a cow or politically correct cowboy?

[Ostryga]

I will obviously clarify tomorrow but am I very stupid in not getting what this is 😂

Bit of a ho down then

Cowperson if you please

At least it wasn't cows son like Gertcha - Chas and Dave

Get a toy story Jessie costume off Amazon, jobs a good un.

Please tell me he was an iguana 😂🦎

His teacher said he was a goat.

Never seen a green goat myself and it's a religious school so the nativity is The Nativity.

My daughter was a cowgirl one year in the nativity!
I think the story may have been about Mary and Joseph travelling through time, can’t really remember. I just remember my cousin commenting about the Christmas cowboys on Facebook!

DD once played a bauble in her ‘nativity’
complete with halloween pumpkin costume dyed red, sequins and glitter.

DS played an alien alongside a dinosaur, a Viking and a Greek god in the strangest Christmas play I’ve ever seen

Could be the role of someone who is a complete cow who turns Mary and Joseph away from their Inn so the couple and their donkey have to sleep in the stable.

I'm sure I vaguely remember my dds line dancing to hillbilly rock in one nativity play.

Dd had no idea she was in The Nativity until her teacher handed me the letter at pickup today! So I assume they’ve been given roles. They’re in yr 1.

Could be doing this
www.outoftheark.co.uk/prickly-hay.html

My daughter was once " a girl from hawaii" 🤔

Thankfully back to being a shepherd the next year

They surely wrote cow person because someone would be unnecessarily offended by the use of cowgirl or cowboy.

I would think this.

I'd assume cowherder.

I try and read a positive thread before bed and this has been the best one for ages.

Cow carer 😂

I think is could be one of my favourite ever MN threads!!

I've just woken DH snorting 😂

Was that "The Smallest Angel"?

Some of these twists on the nativity (The Grumpy Sheep, The Bossy Christmas Fairy etc) were written in the late eighties and nineties, they're not that new. Admittedly, I don't remember any cowboys or cowgirls. Perhaps they've had to think of some new ideas recently!

Absolutely.
A collection of people and beasts with improbable conceptions from various cultures might be very educational, though maybe not suitable for KS1.

I’m really pinning my hopes on a cow Mr T. Pls let us know..

well either it’s a cowboy/girl, but have made it sex neutral as either sex could play the part - but seems weird for a nativity. Or it’s a cow herder, but also weird for a nativity. I don’t think it’s particularly’ politically correct’ as they’re just saying the role is for a child of either sex. I mean both are odd for a nativity, but I once played a seahorse, so who knows?!!

I’m really pinning my hopes on a cow Mr T. Pls let us know..

Impossible... it'd have to be either be a cow Mrs T or a bull Mr T.

We don’t do nativity plays where I live so I have no advice but I just wanted to thank you for the thread which I have enjoyed immensely.

And now I feel a bit ripped off about no nativity plays, although my DS played a koala in a bush Christmas play in preschool and it was the cutest thing I ever saw.

I twill be the person that looks after the cows. Perfectly normal role considering Jesus was born in a stable - I'm sure there would have been cows alongside the ox and the ass.

I wish they wouldn't faff around with the nativity. Ours were bog standard - a jesus doll, Mary, Joseph, Gabriel, extra angels, donkey, camels, wise men. Maybe a shepherd?
Well, that uses up to about 10 of the class, what are you going to do with the other 50 children ?
Everyone needs a role in the Nativity.

Plus a blue whale and an octopus '8 is a lot of legs David!'

It's clearly a cow-centaur. Don't clarify, just immediately make a black and white bottom half of a cow costume. No nativity should be without one.