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Biblical Costume Patterns For A Nativity Play

Published on November 25, 2009 in Christmas Celebrations. 0 Comments

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.
Adults Biblical Costume Pattern sz Medium NEW
Adults Biblical Costume Pattern sz Medium NEW
Paypal   US $4.99 		Childs Biblical Costume PatternM 5905Sz 3 4 5 6
Childs Biblical Costume PatternM 5905Sz 3 4 5 6
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Adults Biblical Costume sz Small Sewing Pattern NEW
Adults Biblical Costume sz Small Sewing Pattern NEW
Paypal   US $4.99 		PATTERN Child NATIVITY costume S L 2 12 biblical robe
PATTERN Child NATIVITY costume S L 2 12 biblical robe
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Simplicity Sewing Pattern 2976 Biblical Costume Child
Simplicity Sewing Pattern 2976 Biblical Costume Child
Paypal   US $7.99 		McCalls Biblical Religious Costume Patterns 2
McCalls Biblical Religious Costume Patterns 2
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Biblical Costumes For A Christmas Pageant

Published on October 25, 2009 in Christmas Celebrations. 1 Comment

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:


Shepherds Crook White
Jesus Adult Costume
Mary Adult Costume

Sultan (Wise Man) Adult
Priest Adult Costume
Mother Superior Adult Costume

Royal Sultan (Wise Man) Adult
Balthazar Adult Costume
Groundskeeper Adult Costume

Mary Adult - Winter Holiday Classics Costume
Joseph Adult - Winter Holiday Classics Costume
Biblical (Brown) Wig And Beard

Jesus Wig and Beard
Biblical Wig and Beard Set Child
Green Roman Wreath

Monk Adult Wig
Mary Child - Winter Holiday Classics Costume
Mary Child Costume

Joseph Child - Winter Holiday Classics Costume
Gaspar Child Costume
Melchior Child Costume

Balthazar Child Costume
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Childrens Nativity Costumes

Published on October 24, 2009 in Christmas Gifts. 0 Comments

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:

Joseph Child - Winter Holiday Classics Costume Joseph Child - Winter Holiday Classics Costume

The Joseph Child costume includes a one piece Caftan robe and Shepherd hat. Available in Child sizes 4-6x and 7-10.

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:

Mary Child Costume Mary Child Costume

Mary costume includes pale Blue robe with Gold trim, White inlet and matching headpiece.

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:

Shepherd Boy Costume Shepherd Boy Costume

This deluxe child Shepherd Boy costume includes: multicolor Robe with gold accents & a solid color inlet, and matching headpiece. Please note: Beltcord, Shepherd Crook & Sandals not included. Exact pattern and color of fabrics used may vary.

The Three Wise Men are popular nativity play characters. Here are children's versions of costumes for all three:

Gaspar Child Costume Gaspar Child Costume

Includes: Headpiece and reversible robe. Shoes, shirt, and pants are not included.

Melchior Child Costume Melchior Child Costume

Includes: headpiece and robe. Shoes, shirt, and pants are not included.

Balthazar Child Costume Balthazar Child Costume

Includes: Robe and headpiece. Shirt, pants, and shoes are not included.

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:

Heavenly Angel White Child Costume Heavenly Angel White Child Costume

Includes long gown, tie belt, marabou trimmed wings and headpiece with halo. Available in Child sizes Small (4-6), Medium (8-10), and Large (12-14).

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Nativity Play Script For Christmas

Published on October 12, 2009 in Christmas Celebrations. 1 Comment

Once again Christmas fast approaches, and if have plans to put on a Christmas nativity play you need to give some thought to obtaining a nativity play script and music, arranging nativity play costumes and getting your organizing team together. There is still plenty of time, but you will need to begin your preparations and get your Christmas play cast auditioning and set building under way quite soon.

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A quick and low cost way to get your preparation started is to buy a comprehensive nativity script complete with music scores. The Christmas nativity play script we recommend is a well proven 4 act pantomime. The narrator tells the story, while the cast acts out the events portrayed to tell the classic Christmas story in comprehensive detail, to a musical accompaniment.

This approach avoids the complications of having amateur actors learn their lines and perhaps fail to get the Christmas messages across as clearly as you might wish. At the same time it allows less self confident actors to participate without the burden of having to master a lengthy spoken script.

This is an ideal arrangement for involving children in the telling of the Christmas story. They will take great delight in acting out the roles of Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, the Three Wise Men and the other characters in the cast of your Christmas pageant.

Participation is enhanced by the use of popular Christmas carols in the telling of the Christmas story, which enables the audience to join in as well.

All in all, the package you receive will save you a great deal of time, and help ensure the success of your nativity play production. In addition to the script, there is comprehensive sheet music and lyrics for guitar or piano, set design, costume, production and rehearsal notes. Important and helpful issues you might have overlooked are also included, such as permission letters and promotion posters and flyers.

Click here to find out more about this nativity play script.

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Ready Made Nativity Costumes To Make Nativity Plays Easy

Published on November 25, 2007 in Christmas Celebrations. 2 Comments

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 CostumeNativity 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.

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Nativity Play Script and Music

Published on November 25, 2007 in Christmas Celebrations. 1 Comment

Christmas tends to be dominated by the commercial aspects these days, with Santa and Christmas gifts getting most of the attention. But there is also the Christian background to remember. Christmas, after all, is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem.

Many churches, families and schools like to celebrate Christmas with a nativity play, or christmas pageant, reproducing the scenes and atmosphere of the birth of baby Jesus in the manger. It's an entertaining way to involve children in learning about and celebrating the original meaning of Christmas.

So if you want to put on a nativity play, how do you go about it?

A Christmas nativity play script can take many forms - some simple, some complicated. You don't want to try to put on too professional a performance, because children will feel it's too hard. Equally, you don't want to be too amateur, because children will judge how it goes against what they see every day on the internet and at movies.

nativity playHere is a good solution - a Christmas nativity play script with music that you can download now and instantly set up your play. To make it easy, you can minimize the speaking parts that have to be learned, and rely on narratives and background carol music to tell the story. The music can be either played from an mp3 or CD, or performed by a choir from the sheet music supplied.

It's a well proven and easily produced and simply performed nativity play that you can make as plain or as elaborate as your time and resources allow. Whichever, you are assured of success with everything you need laid out for you.

To learn more about how you can download your comprehensive  nativity play resources, Click Here!

And make your costuming easy too - see the range of biblical and nativity costumes that are readily available in  our Christmas costume store.


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