Christmas Designs

A Christmas Scene

Derek Studt from Generations Christian Church in Trinity, Florida brings us this cozy Christmas scene. (Originally posted July 2011)

They built different Christmas environments on 1 stage and let the audience’s imagination fill in the gaps to transition from space to space.

Outdoor space: They liked the simple look of the famous Willow Tree nativity so they literally upscaled the figurines to 7x their original size and built them out of paper mache. For the trees, they took branches that had been trimmed off of large trees and built them into bases to stand them up.

The deck: The desk was simply built out of wood.

The fireplace: They built the fireplace out of styrofoam, put a hard coat on it, and painted it. They used an LCD TV with a fireplace video loop to create the flames.

The living room: They built the staircase mostly using 1x2s, 2x2s, and luan. Definitely not weight bearing!

Get a better idea of the project from the time-lapse video at the bottom of this post.

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Boxy Wreaths Wrapped en Masse

7 responses to “A Christmas Scene”

  1. Ann-Marie says:

    Creative Set.

  2. Linda Potts says:

    I am looking for ideas for our Christmas scene at church, we have a 15 piece nativty about 3ft high each piece,I need some ideas,,I like the bare trees with lights, are they real trees?

  3. Lorie says:

    Did you make Mary and Joseph too? If they were bought can you tell me where?

  4. Jeanette says:

    Is the nativity scene made from paper mache’ or ??? Would love to do this for our church Christmas social

  5. AnnaS says:

    What did you use to make the snow ground covers?

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