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Felt Nativity

November 30, 2016

I love homemade Christmas gifts, and try to make them most years. Homemade gifts for our grandkids can be challenging to do, but once in a while I think of something clever… This vintage basket worked perfect to store the cute kid’s nativity figurines in it I found for our 2 year old grandson. To add a special ‘handmade’ touch from grandma, I decided to create a felt nativity scene on the lid.

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Here’s how I did it:

The vintage picnic basket is quite sturdy, and I love the striped details on the side.

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It came with the original little pullout wooden tray.

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I thought a handwritten verse on the tray would make a sweet little touch, and perhaps even help our grandson to memorize this special passage from the Bible.

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The little people of the nativity fit underneath the tray for storage.

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and the stable and accessories just fit perfectly on top of the tray.

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So that’s the ‘storage’ part…

Here’s the handmade creating part…

First, I covered the top lid with black felt, cutting at the seams of the lid.

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Next, I cut and glued brown strips to represent the stable.

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As I went along, I used a hot melt glue gun to glue the pieces down, with once I was happy with the placement, sort of layer by layer.

Next it was time to create the figures for Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus in the manger.

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I purposely wanted this to look childlike and primitive, so no pattern… I looked online for some ideas, and pinned them, (you can see other felt nativities on my pinterest board… some are so lovely!)

But, instead of trying to copy those, I just used them as inspiration as I was creating this one.  I just had a bunch of different colored felt to cut and layer.

This is a pic I took as I was creating the wisemen:

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Here they are all glued together with a couple of camel additions.

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The angel is supposed to be looking down towards Jesus, but actually winded up looking a little goofy… but I guess that’s the primitive part of the art. 🙂

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Little detail by little detail, as I was satisfied with a small part, I would glue it as I went, until it was completed. The nativity scene has the the key figures from the Bible story, including the star.

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Once the whole scene was glued on, I went back and carefully glued a bit more around the edges of all the pieces to secure them just a wee bit extra. (remember this is a 2 year old playing with it) Hopefully all the pieces of the felt nativity will stay together for many Christmases as our grandson plays with it.

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  1. Lynnie says

    November 30, 2016 at 11:50 am

    ADOWABBLE! I could also see gluing a wide Popsicle stick behind each figure so kids could play with them manually-so many ideas-thanks for sharing.

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