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What nativity parts are your children playing?

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hulababy · 05/12/2006 20:35

First time we have done the whole nativity thing. Some of the parts desribed in previous years on here have been very novel IIRR!

DD's is a traditional one. All PP1 girls are to be angels. Non speaking part for all, just singing. Costume provided by school.

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Dottydotthehalls · 05/12/2006 20:37

Ds1 is apparently a villager! Cue lots of shuffling around at the back dressed in a robe-type thing I should think. As he's the most introverted boy in the world this will suit him fine - and lovely moment tonight when I told him I've booked the afternoon off work so I can come and see him with dp - he's soooo excited!!!

Posey · 05/12/2006 20:39

Ds is an angel
All the nursery children are angels, reception gets the other parts.
Cue lots of blubbing...

Marina · 05/12/2006 20:39

Angel. I made her costume myself. It looked a lot better in my head than it does on her, alas!
She is with a gang of small angels. Ds got a Look from the teacher for pointing out that real angels were men with huge fiery swords, not little girls trussed up in tinsel.

CrocodileKate · 05/12/2006 20:39

Ds is going to be a star. There is a group of them and they have a little dance to do. He is extremely shy in front of an audience so will be hiding behind the other stars twiddling his fingers while they dance.

southeastastra · 05/12/2006 20:39

my 5 yr old is an angel, so lots of shuffling about with the other angels like yours dotty! last year he was a shepherd and spent most of the play counting the spotlights.

PollyannaInExcelcis · 05/12/2006 20:41

I've got an angel and a reindeer. And ds is playing a fanfare on his trumpet! (sadly costumes provided by George at Asda )

WigWamBahhumbug · 05/12/2006 20:41

Dd is going to be a Russian villager - lots of singing, lots of dancing, and a couple of lines. We've had to provide a gypsy-type top for her, and the children are making shawls, scarves and skirts themselves (I dread to think what out of, and what the whole ensemble will look like when they come to wear it!).

CountTo10LordsaLeaping · 05/12/2006 20:42

My 2 year old is an angel this year. Was debating making something but I made him a magicians cloak at the weekend for a fancy dress party then he then refused to wear so not sure!!! Its quite cute, last year the minute all the parents turned up all the little ones wanted to sit with them so half the parents ended up in the play!!! Does bring a lump to the throat!!

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hulababy · 05/12/2006 20:43

I think DD will disown me if I cry!

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WigWamBahhumbug · 05/12/2006 20:44

I always cry So far dd hasn't noticed, but I don't think she'd go so far as to disown me if she did!

binkacat · 05/12/2006 20:46

Mary

CountTo10LordsaLeaping · 05/12/2006 20:46

I have accepted that I will be forever embarrassing my son and any future children with tears a plenty just as my mum always has us!!! I had a small tear today as I sat and watched The Snowman with my lo for the first time ever today. he just thinks i'm a nut to be honest!!!

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hulababy · 05/12/2006 20:47

It's my (or rather DD's) first nativity. I know I will cry - I shall have to make sure she doesn't see. I can imagine the "Oh, mummy!" type of sighed comment I will get afterwards.

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Marina · 05/12/2006 20:47

WWB, they're not doing "Mother Protchka" are they? Years 1 and 2 were looking very Russian earlier today...

Nemoinapeartree · 05/12/2006 20:49

Ds[3.1yrs] has volunteered himself as a sheep in childrens church..whether he will actually go through with it is another story..lol

WigWamBahhumbug · 05/12/2006 20:53

Marina, they're doing Baboushka - which I had no idea was a Christmas story at all!

lexiemum · 05/12/2006 20:54

dd1 is playing mary. only nursery but its her first and think its probably all singing - currently singing something about a whoops a daisy angel.

myrrhthamoo · 05/12/2006 21:06

Ds2 is an inn-keeper (note an, not the - there are several). He has a green and blue stripey frock and a blue headscarf and looks very cute. I think casting may have been somewhat dependant on size of child - the frock is quite long and would trip up a shorter inn-keeper

There are 60 children in reception so the nativity tends to be a grand production on epic biblical Cecil B De Mille scale: vast choirs of angels; flocks of gambolling sheep and rather a lot of donkeys. Love it.

myrrhthamoo · 05/12/2006 21:08

Oh and the first performance is on Thursday - which also happens to be ds2's 5th birthday. Can you even begin to imagine the fever pitch of excitement that is buiding up in the moo household...with Christmas as well ?

GoldFrankincenseandmerlin · 05/12/2006 21:14

Lexiemum - DS1 in Yr 1 are doing "Whoops a Daisy Angel". !!! he is in the choir. Last year he was a Wise Man!!!

MoreEggnogAnyone · 05/12/2006 21:15

DD1 is an angel

Don't let Liesel know about this threaqd, she's pissed off abou the nativity play?

Lucycat · 05/12/2006 21:18

Mary last chance as she's in Year 2 and it all goes a bit weird in the juniors!

'but it's boring mummy cos I don't get to say anything'

JollyOldSaintNikkielas · 05/12/2006 21:25

Not a nativity at the dds school , dd1 is narrating and dd2 is in the'rest'(choir?)

LieselVonGiftwrapp · 05/12/2006 21:30

F* off

MoreEggnogAnyone · 05/12/2006 21:31

Oh shit, she found it!!!!!!!!!!!

Duck and cover ladies, duck and cover.