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Nativity plays

Nursery Rhyme Nativities

Nursery Rhyme Nativities

Three easy to perform plays for pre-school and early years learning Brian Ogden £7.99

Three plays that tell the Christmas story from different perspectives, using well-known nursery rhymes to bring the storyline to life. Early Years.

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Emmanuel... assemblies for Christmas

Emmanuel... assemblies for Christmas

A musical and dramatic retelling of the Christmas story Mark Baxter £9.99

This resource provides all you need for an easy-to-use musical and dramatic interpretation of the Christmas story. It offers the flexibility to run a series of five assemblies in the busy lead-up to Christmas, a stand-alone act of worship with presentation readings, or an end-of-term presentation in school or service in the local church. Age range - Key Stage 2.

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Our Christmas Play

Our Christmas Play

An easy-to-perform nursery rhyme play for Christmas Brian Ogden £6.99

Our Christmas Play is an easy-to-perform play for use with Early Years pupils. The performance is ideal as part of a whole school presentation, as a class or year group assembly, as a school production with parents and visitors present, or as a celebration in church. Age range - Early Years.

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Easy Ways to Christmas Plays, Volume 2

Easy Ways to Christmas Plays, Volume 2

Three easy-to-perform plays for 3-7s Vicki Howie £11.99

Three easy-to-perform Christmas plays to use with lively groups of 3-7 year olds.

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Easy Ways to Christmas Plays

Easy Ways to Christmas Plays

Vicki Howie £11.99

Three complete nativity plays for 3-7s with photocopy permission.

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More Christmas resources

Countdown to Christmas with Timothy Bear

Countdown to Christmas with Timothy Bear

24 five-minute read-aloud bedtime stories for Advent Brian Sears £6.99

For Timothy Bear, counting the days down to Christmas is full of excitement! At school there is the nativity play to get ready; at home there are decorations to put up, Christmas cards to write and tasty Christmas treats to prepare. It's no wonder Timothy sometimes finds himself daydreaming - floating through time and space, spinning but never dizzy, speeding but never frightened, until he lands with the slightest bump right in the middle of another adventure.

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Make and Do Christmas Puppets

Make and Do Christmas Puppets

Includes an easy-to-perform puppet play Jane Martin-Scott and Gillian Chapman £5.99

Keep children occupied for hours, creating, crafting and presenting their very own performance of the Christmas story with beautiful puppets they can make themselves.

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Make and Do Christmas Cards and Crib

Make and Do Christmas Cards and Crib

Includes press-out crib scene and the story of the first Christmas Jan Godfrey and Chris Saunderson £3.99

An activity book containing a classic retelling of the Christmas story for children aged 3-10, including material to make twelve Christmas cards and a 3-D crib to create and display.

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Bethlehem Carols Unpacked

Bethlehem Carols Unpacked

Creative ideas for Christmas carol services Lucy Moore and Martyn Payne with BibleLands Currently out of print £8.99

Innovative ideas based on eleven popular carols to help those planning the annual carol service.

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Looking forward to Christmas with Timothy Bear

Looking forward to Christmas with Timothy Bear

18 five-minute stories and assembly outlines for Advent and Christmas Brian Sears £7.99

18 five-minute stories and assembly outlines for Advent and Christmas for Key Stage 1

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Easter resources

Our Easter Play

Our Easter Play

An easy-to-perform nursery rhyme play for Easter Brian Ogden £6.99

Our Easter Play is an easy-to-perform play for early learners, ideal for an assembly presentation, as the basis for a classroom project linking RE and PSHE or Drama at Foundation and KS1, or performed to an invited audience.

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Story Assemblies for the School Year

Story Assemblies for the School Year

36 assemblies with five-minute stories, teacher's notes and RE follow-up Edward J Carter £8.99

This book is full of memorable stories, designed to engage and delight pupils at primary level. The stories are essentially parables about God and the events of the Bible, creatively told to help children understand the big story of God's love for the world.

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Resources for Saints' Days

Story Assemblies of 24 Saints

Story Assemblies of 24 Saints

24 off-the-peg assemblies for the school year Heather Butler £7.99

Story Assemblies of 24 Saints features a wealth of saints' days spread across the school year from September to July, making it an ideal ongoing resource and enabling teachers to opt in at any time. Ideal for KS1 and KS2.

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Stories of Everyday Saints

Stories of Everyday Saints

40 stories with Bible links and related activities Veronica Heley £9.99

Forty five-minute read-aloud stories of people who have lived their lives for God

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