Nativity set

[princessbear80]

I’m hosting Christmas for the first time ever this year, and getting very excited! One thing I’d like to add to my existing decorations is a nativity set. Any favourites anyone could recommend? Or ideas for homemade ones (maybe knitted)? I’d love to see photos if you have them but appreciate it’s probably a bit early for that!

I can't find a nice one!! My dm had a lovely wooden one in the shape of a Christmas tree with little shelves for all the characters, it was a modern style; and my dsis has a pottery one with little tiny cartoon sort of figures. All I can find are horrible churchy looking ones.

My mother and I have the willow tree one.

I like it because Mary is holding Jesus. All the other ones I saw he’s in the manger. Mums hold their newborns!

I’ve been on the hunt for at least five years and haven’t found anything I like kenandbarbie. Those two you described sound nice!

The playmobil sets are lovely if you’ve got kids or relatives children who would like to play.

I collect the Alessi nativity characters. I bought the main nativity with stable and Mary/Jesus/Joseph, and every year DH buys me one more character to add to it.

Thanks will look into Willow Tree and Alessi - thanks marmite and llama.

Isadora I might get a playmobile one too for my little boy!

We have a happyland one for the kids!

We have the playmobil one too.

Good for the kids (but not beautiful).

I made this knitted one a few years ago for the Woolly Hugs Christmas sale.

There are loads of nativity sets on this website. I have a children's set that I bought in a garden centre when DD1 was a baby. It's 20+ years old now. I'm coveting the Willow Tree set too.

I also have the Willow Tree one!

You should be able to find one here. www.magellantraders.com/View-All-Nativity-Sets-from-Around-the-World_c_138.html

I really, really want the matchbox one, except I already have quite enough. I do love them, though.

I got my nativity set from this place. It is gorgeous and I love unpacking it each year. The wood is very tactile. www.wonderinwood.co.uk/othernativities.html

I have a tiny set of french Feves. Bought them recently so thinking of buying/making a stable to display them in.

They're really cute, the standing figures are about 1 inch.

DM collects nativities so we've got them from all over but last year we got a really lovely Lanka Kade one that will be DSs.

We have a matryoshka set that go King-Joseph-Mary-Angel-Donkey-Jesus. The kids love it.

Thank you some lovely ideas here. Woolly your knitted one is amazing!

We’ve got the Beleek one. I’m a bit nonplussed at the PP only being able to find horrible churchy nativity sets!
Do you understand what the Nativity is?

Belleek

We got this one from John Lewis a few years ago. It's beautiful.

www.amazon.co.uk/Sevi-Large-Wooden-Nativity-Scene/dp/B002SQXK4M

Oh woe betide a nativity that looks to 'churchy.'

Great Little Trading company have a gorgeous felt one . Or they used to

The woollybackswife , that is amazing . Really beautiful

We have the Haba one. It's wooden, very robust (my children have played with it for years) and just gorgeous looking.

I’ve got this one from Lakeland. It’s base is an advent calendar, so you take a character out each day and build up the nativity scene. Love it!

www.lakeland.co.uk/40910/Bethlehem-Advent-Stable

I've got the Lakeland one too. I love it. Building the Nativity scene as you go along is lovely.