Free Printable Nativity Scene

Oooh yes, it's time.

This Christmas, I'm feeling the need for a Nativity Set. The children are now old enough and because there's been a little emphasis on Santa this season (and confusion regarding his reality) I thought it was a great time to start a family tradition that can blossom alongside The Man In Red.

We don't want to be anti-Santa. We just can't get terribly pro-Santa, given that he has featured very little in the Christmases Past of mine and my husband's.

And don't forget that we were broken into a year and a half ago. Giving a portly stranger dressed unseasonally in top-to-toe red and white free access to our home seems a little unwise. That's all I'm sayin'.

Long Story Short: I would really like a nativity set but being on a budget, I don't feel I can justify that expense this year. Maybe next year.

In the meantime, I'd like to share this with you:

FREE Printable Nativity Scene

Go on, click over there! Isn't it great? I wanted to share that with you.

You're welcome.

I think that this year, we will make this little set. I will get Anna-Lucia to help me colour it in and then I'll do the cutting. I think both Nat and Anna-Lucia would like to help me set it up, and the ruin it a good number of days before Christmas with their boisterous behaviour.

Incidentally, this is why I will get Anna-Lucia to help me colour it in, but not Nat. Below are two pieces of artwork:

Mmm. You can see where this is going, can't you? The one on the left, as you've probably guessed, was done by my 2½ year old girl, and the one on the right was done by my
space• anti-pencil-and-paper
space• anti-craft
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space• this-is-my-first-kindy-artwork-for-2009-after-8-months-at-kindy-and-there's-only-one-week-left-so-here's-the-painting-you've-been-begging-for
space• 4½ year old
boy. He doesn't have poor gross motor, fine motor or cognitive skills. It's that he just doesn't care.

So I will get Anna-Lucia to help, thankyouverymuch.