How Do You Display A Christmas Creche?
The Christmas creche-also known as a Nativity or manger scene-is more than a decoration. For many, displaying a Christmas creche is a way to focus on the real meaning of the holiday. The traditional creche figures are drawn from the accounts of Jesus’ birth in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. There are many ways and variations to display a Christmas creche. Feel free to adapt these basic steps. Choose your style. Creches come in all shapes and sizes, from traditional figures handed down through generations (the 3-legged dog, the camel with the chipped nose) to ethnic interpretations, from children’s paper cutouts to expensive collectibles. Select a theme, mix and match or display a whole collection. Make your own creche figures, or adapt popular children’s toys and action figures. Set the basic scene, a week or two before Christmas. Traditionally, most people begin with the stable, or something which resembles the rough Bethlehem setting of the Nativity. Add the figures of Mary and Jos
