School Nativity Play Scripts

If you enjoy my writing style,  you will love my nativity scripts. 

Here are some of the main features of my nativity plays…

They are:

• Written entirely in rhyme and rhythm, using narration and have …

• Lots of options for small speaking parts to make everyone feel special.

 

They last approximately 25 minutes and are deliberately adaptable so that they…

• can be used for any size cast, small or large and …
• are easily recast at short notice….

as the script is very much led by the narration.

Music

• I use simple, familiar tunes which I add my own easily remembered words to, so there are
• NO LICENCE FEES no matter how often you use the script or songs.
• I provide sheet music for the songs PLUS
• midi files (to play through a computer) in case you have no pianist.

 

Oh, and the best part….it’s an instantly downloadable document!

 

You can purchase my scripts for £9.95 as a pdf document, but I have also made available the actual word document for you to save to your own computer and amend / personalise as much as you need, for an extra £2.  It will save you hours of work when it comes to adapting the scripts to suit your circumstances and copying scripts for distribution, so my previous customers highly recommend it!

 

1.   Children’s Nativity Story

Click here for a preview of a few pages of my Children’s Nativity Story script

 

This script (perfect for primary aged children) has received fantastic customer feedback and tells the traditional bible based nativity story, with gentle humour, using the following songs/music:

 

Away in a Manger &
We wish you a merry Christmas

and my own words to the music of….

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy,
Jingle Bells,

Plus my own “Donkey’s Journey song (very simple and catchy).

If you would like to buy the CHILDREN’S NATIVITY STORY SCRIPT click here to go to the appropriate page on my sister site www.bestchildrensnativity.com, then click on the orange BUY NOW button in the right hand corner.

 

2.   Grandpa’s Nativity Story

Click here for a preview of my Grandpa’s Nativity Story script (including specific details on the cast required and the size of each speaking part.

This script (perfect for primary aged children), begins with the excitement of children in their bedroom on Christmas Eve (anticipating Santa/Saint Nicholas’s arrival), and continues (via Grandpa’s bedtime story) into the traditional bible based nativity story, including my own words to the following tunes:

• We wish you a Merry Christmas
• O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
• Oranges and Lemons
• Children of Jerusalem (the tune of a simple children’s Easter hymn)

 

• Plus my own simple, and catchy “Santa’s Song

This nativity script works with or without the mention of Santa/St Nicholas, and the Santa Song is also therefore optional.  The Saginaw Children’s Worship Festival in USA used it without reference to Santa and were able to perform the script on the same day that they received it!

My sister site (see below) includes video clips of a whole school performance of the Grandpa’s Nativity Story showing how easily the script can be scaled up.

If you would like to buy my GRANDPA’S NATIVITY STORY SCRIPT click here to go to the appropriate page on my sister site www.bestchildrensnativity.com, then click on the orange BUY NOW button in the right hand corner.

 

3.  The Day That Baby Jesus Came to Town

Click here for a preview of this nativity script. (Including specific details on the cast required and the size of each speaking part.

Perfect for a small or large mixed age cast, (particularly a whole school performance) this nativity play is written from the perspective of the gossiping Innkeeper’s Wife who wrote everything down in her diary on the day that Jesus was born in their stable!

• It therefore has lots of scope for older children to lead the narration via the roles of Innkeeper, Innkeeper’s Wife and narrators and to add lots of sarcasm, attitude and humour to the parts.
• The script is cleverly written so that there is no need for them to learn their parts as they are apparently passing around the Innkeeper’s Wife’s diary (and a letter from Mary) and reading the story from there. (In reality, their entire script is printed in the diary, all coded so that they can each spot their part instantly when the diary is passed to them.)
• In addition to these key ‘narration’ roles, there are up to 19 simple, small, easily remembered speaking parts for other children, each suitable for any age, plus my simple words to 5 familiar children’s songs which are ideal for the younger children to sing:

1. The Wheels on the Bus (ie, All Day Long)
2. Go Tell it on the Mountain (Go Find the Baby Jesus)
3. Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush (This is the Way to Bethlehem)
4. Once I caught a Fish Alive (1,2,3 Wise Men)
5. She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain (Oh, It’s Nearly Christmas Day)

And finally, my own composition….Sleep, Gentle Jesus

The diary, Mary’s letter and the soldier’s scroll are all included as part of the instantly downloadable nativity script together with the sheet music and FREE music midi backing tracks to be played through a computer.  I also include a FREE Christmas poem entitled “Jesus is Not Just for Christmas” and a purpose written Nativity Roll Call poem giving everyone the opportunity to take a bow.

If you would like to buy THE DAY THAT BABY JESUS CAME TO TOWN  nativity play script click here to go to the appropriate page on my sister site www.bestchildrensnativity.com, then click on the orange BUY NOW button in the right hand corner.

4. The Simplest Nativity Play Ever

Click here for a preview of this nativity script. (Including specific details on the cast required and the size of each speaking part.

SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE ENOUGH FOR ANY AGE OR GROUP PERFORMANCE, this entire nativity script is written in rhyming narration, WITH RHYMING INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CAST!  This means that this nativity play could be performed literally without rehearsal.  ( Of course, any rehearsals that you do will clearly improve it’s professionalism!)

This gives it the ultimate flexibility and adaptability as there is no problem replacing a cast member due to illness or absence, or even stage fright!

There are 19 (optional) short speaking parts (averaging 2 to 4 lines).  If you choose not to allocate lines to an actor, the narrator simply says their lines as part of the story so the script is not reduced (see script preview to see how simply this works)

No music is included with this script as it is intended to be used with all of your past favourites, or with traditional carols, or even with hymns/carols for the audience to join in with to give it a ‘Carol Service’ atmosphere.  The instantly downloadable script therefore comes with a customizable word document as standard for £9.95, together with absolutely all the printable aids you could benefit from: soldiers scroll, prompt cards for cast members, character name tags (to help in an unrehearsed performance)

Also included is another of my trademark Nativity Roll Call poems, purpose written for this script in the style of a register, to give everyone an opportunity to take a bow to round off the play.  In addition,  have included a unique Christmas Tree shape poem entitled “The Unending Christmas Story” which, despite being a shape poem, is also written in rhyme and rhythm!

If you would like to buy THE SIMPLEST NATIVITY PLAY EVER click here to go to the appropriate page on my sister site www.bestchildrensnativity.com, then click on the orange BUY NOW button.