Natalya Plakhteeva
Word "nativity scene" comes from Old Church Slavonic "nativity scene" - "cave". This name is used by the Orthodox Church to refer to the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
Nativity scene in the narrow sense of the word is a folk Christmas performance about the history of the Nativity of Christ, played out in a special box. Previously, the Nativity scene was necessarily accompanied by the singing of various religious chants, which distinguished it from the secular folk drama.
The Nativity Theater was part of the folk Christmas carols and the walking of mummers with a "star". The time of walking with the nativity scene continued throughout Christmas time, that is, from the Nativity of Christ (January 7) until the Baptism of the Lord (January 19). The mummers carried a crib box on a sled when they went from house to house with their performance. Rising to the porch, they asked permission to carol. If the hosts were willing to accept them, carolers would bring the theater into the room and the performance would begin. The children sang the troparion of the holiday:
"Your Christmas, Christ our God,
ascension of the world, the light of reason,
in it, for the stars serving as a star, I study
Bow to you, the Sun of Truth,
and lead you from the height of the East.
Lord, glory to Thee!”
Your Christmas, Christ our God,
illumined the world with the light of knowledge of God;
for then - the stars, as God, who served
Were taught by a star
to worship You, the Sun of righteousness,
and know You, East from on high.
In our kindergarten, Christmas holidays are traditionally held on Svyatki. Its indispensable attribute, which occupies a place of honor, is the Christmas puppet theater or nativity scene. We have several types of this theatre.
I made my first theater about six years ago. To make the cave, I took a cardboard box and decorated it with papier-mâché. Then I painted the resulting cave with paints.
To depict a starry night, I decided to make a background. To do this, I took a cardboard sheet, painted it with black paint, and when it dried, I glued the stars, roughly depicting the constellation Pisces. According to legend, this is where the Star of Bethlehem appeared.
To show the nativity theater, the background is attached to the cave-nativity scene with special wire fasteners
I made all the characters from fabric using the traditional folk doll method.
With the help of this Nativity scene, every year I tell children a Christmas story
Our pupils participated in the city Christmas competition. They made and sent him three works. But the jury chose the creative work "Christmas Nativity Scene" . Arina made it. She made the cave in the same way as I did, and Arina made the main characters using the technique "Paper plastic"
The children also took part in the Christmas craft competition. And there was such a beautiful work in a flat image
And once the leaders of the children's Orthodox center "Grain of Faith" for the Christmas holiday offered us several ideas for decorating the hall, as well as their Nativity Theatre. All figures of fine workmanship were made of porcelain
The priest of our church, father Pavel, presented beautiful figures of the main characters of the Christmas story
Gathering them together and placing them near the nativity scene, they will take pride of place on our Christmas holiday!
The modern Christmas theater is preserved in kindergartens, schools, centers of children's creativity. In some families, parents arrange their own cribs, reviving the tradition of home theater.
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