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What nativity parts are your children playing?

79 replies

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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mateychops · 12/12/2006 09:53

A Japanese girl. Don't ask, it's a very inclusive play to make sure everyone gets a part.

Weatherwax · 12/12/2006 10:10

dd2(5) was a spider and I was very but I do know all babies need mobiles over their cribs and what is better than a spiders web for the purpose!

I'm going to dd1(8)'s dress rehersal this afternoon. Shes a swan in the 12 days of Christmas and watched her sister's nativity last week and the senior schools scrouge.Do you think they do any work in the weeks before Xmas? Oh yes I remember 8x table...

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Kittypickle · 12/12/2006 10:18

DS is a donkey in his first ever nativity "playlet". His costume is a piece of brown paper which has been sitting in the car for about a week now. Apparently he needs to have donkey ears. I understand he is very good at his role and does a great line in crawling which I am really looking forward to seeing on Friday.

I blame my brother for his part actually. His nickname has been Donkey Pickle for years so clearly this has filted down genetically to DS. If it wasn't for this I'm sure he would have been a shepherd.

whenevilgotstuckupthechimney · 12/12/2006 10:18

dd a star. ds a chocolate santa (????!!!!). if anyone can tell me how a chocolate santa features on the christmas story, or indeed has a child who is a chocolate santa, then i expect they will know exactly who i am in rl as surely no other school in the entire world is doing a play with chocolate santas in!!!

paulaplumpbottom · 12/12/2006 10:31

The Star of Bethlehem

bresha · 12/12/2006 10:38

Dd1 and the rest of her class are all going to be elephants

admylin · 12/12/2006 10:40

Although the Germans are big on christmas traditions we have never had a nativity play for our kids. Not even in kindergarden and definately not in primary here in Berlin. It's a shame.

TEEstheCEEsontobejolly · 12/12/2006 10:41

DD1 in reseption - She is a drumming Shepherd from what I can make out!

ellceeell · 12/12/2006 10:45

dd2 (4) is Mary. She has one line "This is Jesus, the Son of God". She explained to me that the funny little line after the word Jesus meant that you had to take a breath there - which she does very ostentatiously! She also gets her g and d sounds mixed up, so several times during rehearsals we have been introduced to "the son of dog"

Charleesawmummykissingsanta · 12/12/2006 11:07

DS1 is a Shepard at playschool and then later appears as a sheep! He is 2 so he will probably be on stage second before he notices us in the audience and runs off to sit on my knee!

ellceeell · 12/12/2006 14:27

16 years ago ds was the Angel Gabriel, when he was in reception. I have never seen so many near misses as his angel wand waved randomly around. I still have the photos tho

Bagpuss30 · 12/12/2006 14:34

ds1 is in the Choir and is a Donkey along with about 50 other year 1 children.

dd is a magic sparkle (dancing to 'It's a Kind of Magic' by Queen ), she is in Reception.

The story is 'Ned's Christmas Journey'.

Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 12/12/2006 14:37

Ds2 - supposed to be Joseph in morning nursery but refused so ended up being a king (shy!). At afternoon/school nursery he is a king as well!

Ds1 - crocodile in his production (not nativity, obviously!).

Ds3 - Father Christmas in his morning nursery 'production' (he's only 2)

MerryChristmasPANDAGHappyNewYe · 12/12/2006 14:45

DD was santa this morning at one nursery, and will be an angel on Friday at the other. DS is in the choir - year group of 90 so they take it in turns to get the parts. I am now word perfect let alone him

blueshoes · 12/12/2006 14:53

A christmas pudding! Nursery concert.

Anchovy · 12/12/2006 14:55

I have had a busy 24 hours on the nativity slopes.

DS (5) in Reception. About 30 nursery children dressed up as angels - random twirling, some wandering about, one meltdown who was plucked from the shining throng and spent the rest of the play on the headmistresses lap. DS's class did a "tableau" (that's what you get when you go private!) He was unsure beforehand whether he was an icicle or a snowflake and I am similarly unsure afterwards. He delivered his one line with grim determination and overall I feel did a workmanlike job. No tears from Reception, but 2 spectacular cases of completely forgetting their words, both done with charm and a certain "I don't even know what I am doing here" insouciance, I felt.

DD(3) (nursery school) was in a production which I still have not been able to make head nor tail of (DS did the same one at the same school 2 years ago). She was "summer weather"(?). DH believed this was going to be a sort of French existentialist scene about the fleeting nature of happiness, but no, it was some small children in their summer frocks singing a song. DD had a whole 3 lines which again she delivered as though Miss Kelly was sticking a ruler in her back and had promised her a sweetie for getting right, rather than with conviction and panache. A couple more meltdowns from the angels and, I believe, some wee involved.

Nice mulled wine and mince pies at both, although funnily neither 1.45pm and 10.45am is exactly the time when I fancy a glassy of warm red wine.

BournemouthBaubleBabe · 12/12/2006 14:59

DS's play is called 'The Hoity Toity Angel' (bit of a Angel theme, mine's at the same school as Merlin!)

DS (Y2) is narrating, which I am very proud of as he has been having speech therapy since he was 4 and has just mastered the F sound, so he was able to say with gusto 'there was once a very beautiFUL angel'.

Gem13 · 12/12/2006 15:05

DS is in Reception and is the only donkey. He was most impressed that I knew the play when I asked him if he went to Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph!

PortAndLemonaid · 12/12/2006 15:24

DS was one of many very small Santas in his nursery production. The boy next to him was a reindeer but clearly got fed up with his costume mid-performance so stripped off in the course of the penultimate musical number...

blueshoes · 12/12/2006 15:25

lol, anchovy

MrsArchieTheInventor · 12/12/2006 15:30

DS (called Joseph!) is playing Joseph in his nursery nativity and when his grandma asked him if he had to ask if there was any room at the inn he looked stunned that she knew what he had to say!!

I cried when I saw him in his costume for the first time so I know I'm going to cry on Thursday afternoon!

Must remember to wear clear mascara!

oliveoil · 12/12/2006 15:42

dd1 said she was Mary and I was thinking, no you are not (she is very shy) but it turns out she was Mary, but they were doing Whoops A Daisy Angel and Mary doesn't do anything .

I said "do you hold baby Jesus?" and she said "no , he is asleep".

katierocket · 12/12/2006 15:55

DS is Joseph in the Reception xmas show.

julienetmum · 12/12/2006 16:19

My dd was a narrator in Whoops a Daisy. The little 4 year old reception girl who played Whoops a Daisy made us all laugh, she was such a character especially when counting snowflakes

1 snowflake, 2 snowflakes, 4 snowflakes, Oh bother I'll have to start again.

I'm sure it doesn't sound half so comical to those from the South but Oh bother in Stoke !!!!!

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