What are the most ridiculous parts in the Nativity that your DC have had?

[veggieburger]

I'm thinking along the lines of the Love Actually nativity here - have any of you been subjected to anything such as an octopus? A singing lobster?
I was just thinking this as DD has been cast as a reindeer in hers, something I don't recall in the origional
So anyone have any experiece of this kind of thing, or have you been subjected to making an 'interesting' costume?

DS1 was a chocolate santa claus! and yes this production did include the traditional nativity characters.

When my DD was Mary in hers the alpha mother in our playground was really upset with her daughter's part...she was a postbox!

I don't think any sane teacher would give my DS a part. Last year they put him with the musicians and gave him a drum!

i was sally the banana.....

life sized ( well kid size anyway) yellow leggings sticking out the bottom the works!

think it scarred me - yes the other kids did laugh! still remember and it was bloody 30 years ago....

My son is in the percussion section. Finally got out of him today that his instrument is the coconut shells. For the donkey going clip clop. [so proud]

Dd is Jack Frost's sister Jill She's happy she gets to wear a white dress and sparkly shoes.

For my daughter's first nativity in Nursery she was a shopper, wandered on to stage, didn't even give Mary and Joseph a glance, wandered off the other side. It was very bizarre.

For Reception class she told me she was a satsuma, in fact she was adamant that she was going to be a piece of orange fruit. Checked with teacher, she was actually Angel Gabriel.

( more on stage time than any other child )
She did mutter that she didn't want to wear the silly angel dress and wanted to be a satsuma, all the way till the day of the show.

My school is doing a fairy tale nativity. The children are initially fairy tale/nursery rhyme characters such as Goldilocks, Jack, the Giant, 3 litle pigs, etc - who are then transformed into playing nativity characters.

Pretty normal here, this year he is god though. Complete with glowing finger and lightening bolt.

Pretty normal here, this year he is god though. Complete with glowing finger and lightening bolt.

DS is pirate number 2 (really not sure what this production is!)

I remember at primary school having to put black makeup on my face and be a slave. Seriously. What on EARTH was that about?

Love God's glowing finger, Liss!

DS1 was a cockerel.
DS2 was a superhero.
DD was a wise man's camel.

All in fairly traditional, all-singing, all-dancing nativities.

when DD was in reception she was the angel Gabrielle as, in their words, 'it would be odd giving her a male part'
She did look very cute though :o

I was The North Wind in a nativity once .

After that, I was The Narrator in any production cos I speak good innit. Always wanted to be something glamorous like an angel.

PFB was a rabbit once, one of a dozen or so, and to this day we have no idea which one was him.
No3 son was an ass last year "I'm a donkey mummy, not Little Donkey what goes to Bethlehem with Mary but the one what's already there when they get there with the ox and the ass"
Me: "So you're the ass then son, a donkey is an ass" Followed by the dawning realisation of exactly what I'd just said to my beloved child... [sigh]

DS is King Herod's henchman, or, as he puts it, 'I have to follow the evil dude around the stage'!