When putting on a Christmas pageant nativity play one of the most important things to do is to arrange costumes for the players. You will need costumes for the leading roles, especially Mary, Joseph and the Three Wise Men. Other players also need costumes, such as shepherds, angels and perhaps (if you include them) King Herod and his soldiers.
You can buy children's Nativity costumes and similar ready-made biblical costumes for adults. This saves time and trouble but incurs an expense. Simple biblical costumes are not difficult to make, but it does help to start with a sewing pattern.
Here are some sources of suitable low-cost biblical costume patterns. With these patterns anybody with sewing skills could soon prepare the costumes needed to put on a nativity play.
With Christmas now only a couple of months away, it's that time of year when many church groups plan their Christmas pageant, to tell the Christmas story in a nativity play. One of the most challenging tasks ahead for these good folk will be finding suitable biblical costumes for the characters in their Christmas play. Homemade nativity costumes are popular, but today's families are often too busy for dressmaking and related craft work. With the cost of buying clothing new having fallen in recent years, there are fewer stay at home moms who have kept up the skills, have the sewing machines and who can spare the time. A quick and simple solution to outfitting your Christmas pageant actors is to buy a set of biblical costumes of theatrical quality. The cost is not that great these days, and the costumes can be reused at Easter or other times, and be ready again for the following Christmas. Even if some individual size adjustments are required, the dressmaking work is much less demanding than starting out from scratch to make a new costume.
Good quality costumes are readily available for both children and adult parts, and cover most of the leading characters of the nativity story, particularly Mary, Joseph, shepherds, angels and the Three Wise Men. Costumes for Roman soldiers and other related parts you may include in your play can also be readily obtained, should you want to tell a comprehensive story and involve a larger cast in your performance.
Costume accessories and extras, such as wigs, beards and even a shepherd's crook, are also available with a biblical theme.
Here are some of the most popular biblical costumes that are available:
The Christmas story is most commonly told in a nativity play with children playing the parts of the various characters. Some of the most popular children's nativity costumes are Joseph, Mary, shepherds, the Three Wise Men and angels.
Joseph usually plays an important lead role in a nativity play. This is a children's Joseph costume:
Mary plays a lead alongside Joseph, and some may argue has a more important symbolic role in the Christmas story. Here is a children's costume for Mary:
The shepherds play a supporting role, and there can be several parts to involve more actors. This is a rather attractive children's shepherd costume:
The Three Wise Men are popular nativity play characters. Here are children's versions of costumes for all three:
No nativity play for children would be complete without an angel or two to oversee proceedings, and this children's angel costume serves the purpose perfectly:
US $4.99
