Please tick if you would like to receive news, offers and information from our trusted and carefully selected partners that we think you might like. Christmas is the time for celebrations galore, and a common tradition for primary schools is to put on a Christmas Nativity play. As with the tabard, if you want to decorate your cape any further, you can add accessories like tinsel, ribbon, or some festive gold and silver stars. For the present, you can simply wrap an empty cardboard box in foil or brightly coloured wrapping paper and tie a colourful ribbon around it.

How to make a DIY Nativity costume for a King or Wise Man

First, you'll need to make a tabard or tunic as the main piece of clothing that your child will wear. You can choose from all of the classic nativity characters with our outfits covering everything from the Shepherds and three Kings , all the way to Mary and Joseph. Attach your ribbon or rope cord to a safety pin and feed it all the way through the gap above the hem. You can then place a damp cloth on top and run a hot iron along the hem to bond the Wonderweb in place. Make sure it's big enough to wrap round your child, and goes from their neck down to the middle of their calf.Whatever Nativity character your Child gets chosen for, we at Smiffys hope they have an amazing performance and a fantastic festive season. Lie your card flat and draw the outline of the crown with some pencil; you can just do simple triangle cutouts. Of course, the role of the Three Kings/Three Wise Men in the Nativity is to bring presents for the baby Jesus, so your little King or Wise Man will need a present too! To make the neckline, place a plate at the top of the fabric in the centre of the fold and draw around half of the plate to make a semi-circle for the neckline.

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Handily, if you don't have access to sewing equipment (or you just don't fancy getting out a needle and thread), this DIY King/Wise Man costume is totally no-sew! If you like, you could stop here with the tabard, but if you want to make it neater and more decorated then follow the next steps. If you want to add any details to the tabard, you can stick these on with Wonderweb too, whether it's some ribbon strips, some gold or silver stars, or sequins. You'll need about a metre and a half of fabric for the tabard, but you can always use more or less depending on your child's size.While it's lots of fun (and very cute) seeing the kids perform, making your child's Nativity costume yourself might feel like a daunting task! The example in the picture is purple, but you can use any colour fabric you like (unless the school has given you specific instructions).

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Make a marking with pencil of where the two ends of cardboard need to meet, then staple them together. Fold your fabric in half and measure it to check it's the right length and size to fit your child comfortably. To secure the tabard, have your child put it over their head and then take either a length of leftover fabric, a ribbon, some rope or even a dressing-gown belt to tie it around their waist. The example in the picture is made from shiny gold fabric, but velvet or a different coloured material like red or blue would work well too.For the crown, you can use glue to stick on sequins, ribbon or gold and silver stars - whatever you and your child prefer!