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:
If you are putting on a Nativity play this Christmas, make your task a lot easier by buying in low cost ready made Biblical Nativity costumes for your actors.
These days there is a great selection of Nativity costumes available online. For just a few dollars, you will save hours of work by busy parents and supporters - if you are able to find people with the time, interest and sewing skills to do a good job making the costumes for your players.
Nativity costumes are available for Mary and Joseph, the Three Wise Men, shepherds, angels and even Jesus Christ. The size selection you can get allows the parts to be played by either adults or children, giving you a lot of scope as a Nativity play producer.
Imagine what a difference it would make to the enthusiasm of your actors if they can dress for their parts right from the start of their practice to perform their roles - no waiting for busy mothers to get around to making up home made Nativity costumes.
See the selection of top quality Nativity costumes that are available to you by scanning through our Christmas costume store.
If you prefer to sew your own home-made religious costumes click on this link for biblical costume patterns.
