now that your nativity is completely finished, and you have read through the entire birth story, you can act out the events. stress to your kids that this is not just a story, it is history: true events that really happened.
there are at least two ways to do this – more if you come up with your own creative ways – but you can act out the christmas story yourselves, or you can act it out with the pieces you created for your nativity.
start with right before the birth, or start sooner in the story if you’d like. have your kids play different parts.
if you are acting it out yourselves, 