Place a manger in your home.
Build a manger for baby jesus.
I like to have hands on visuals for my class as much as possible.
The set tends to blow over very easily and i was tired of constantly picking up the pieces.
Build the body of the manger.
Draw on baby jesus face and some lines to make the swaddling.
To create the slatted look begin by placing one piece of wood across the sets of legs at the place where they meet in the middle of the v shape they create.
Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in christ jesus who though he was in the form of god did not count equality with god a thing to be grasped but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men.
Use a hammer and nails to nail the piece into the v on both sets of legs.
Every time someone does something kind invite that person to place a piece of straw in the manger to welcome the baby jesus.
And i try to make things as cheap as i can but i want visuals that i can use over and over.
Place baby jesus into his manger.
Space the 7 remaining pieces of wood along the top of the legs to create the manger.
We loved the idea.
Roll the baby jesus craft up and glue it into a cylinder.
Glue the face onto the top middle of the white rectangle.
Deciding to build a manger.
Make your own manger for baby jesus.
Then and there tim and i decided that we would use a manger as the focus of our christmas décor.