Build the body of the manger.
Build a manger for baby jesus.
Glue the face onto the top middle of the white rectangle.
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.
Place a manger in your home.
I like to have hands on visuals for my class as much as possible.
Make your own manger for baby jesus.
We loved the idea.
Roll the baby jesus craft up and glue it into a cylinder.
Choose your face colour from the baby jesus craft printable and cut it out along with the white rectangle.
Draw on baby jesus face and some lines to make the swaddling.
When you think of the baby jesus in the manger i urge you to consider the incredible example of manhood in jesus christ.
Use a hammer and nails to nail the piece into the v on both sets of legs.
Then and there tim and i decided that we would use a manger as the focus of our christmas décor.
And i try to make things as cheap as i can but i want visuals that i can use over and over.
A few years after we had built our house we purchased an outdoor nativity set that came with mary joseph and baby jesus so we could display an outdoor nativity scene.
Deciding to build a manger.
Place baby jesus into his manger.
The set tends to blow over very easily and i was tired of constantly picking up the pieces.