Gallery
Explore our community’s cherished nativity sets on display here.
Créche Displays
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Christmas Trees
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Total Creche Displays
175
Creche displays have been submitted so far.
Kenyan Straw Nativity
Origin: Kenya Africa
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User Name: Clspencer
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Ethiopian Wood Nativity
Origin: Ethiopia Africa
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User Name: Clspencer
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Japanese Origami Nativity
Origin: Japan
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User Name: Clspencer
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Resin Holy Family
Origin: Branson, MO
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User Name: kmjpalmer
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Large Ceramic Nativity
Origin: Italy
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User Name: Clspencer
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Peruvian Nativity
Origin: Peru
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User Name: Clspencer
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Cambodian Nativity
Origin: Cambodia
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User Name: Clspencer
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Bread dough nativity
Origin: USA
Description: Made for me by a ministering sister who later passed away from cancer. I treasure it.
User Name: Clspencer
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Hand painted nativity
Origin: USA
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User Name: Clspencer
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Nativity Star
Origin: unknown
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User Name: svatk
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Copper Nativity
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User Name: svatk
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Special Nativity given to me
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Description: Our house burned int the Waldo Canyon Fire. I had about 50 Nativity sets. All of them were destroyed except one. This is the one I would like to display.
User Name: deborahmcomber21
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Native American nativity
Origin:
Description: It's a Choctaw nativity
User Name: Sisterpatterson
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Tiny nativity
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Description: Super tiny
User Name: Sisterpatterson
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Wood manger nativity
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User Name: Sisterpatterson
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Child nativity
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Description: White ceramic children nativity
User Name: Sisterpatterson
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What [Lego] Child Is This?
Origin: Colorado Springs, CO
Description: I've wanted for many years to do a large Lego nativity. This one has several "Easter eggs" that allude to impactful scriptures about the Savior, a list of which I will provide.
User Name: thelevyisdry
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Peruvian Wooden Nativity
Origin: Peru
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Peruvian Ceramic Nativity
Origin: Peru
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Olive Wood Holy Family
Origin: Israel
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Hand painted Guatemala Nativity
Origin: Guatemala
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Nativity Box
Origin: Brazil
Description:
User Name: LexieBorg
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Native American Nativity
Origin: New Mexico, USA
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Silver Nativity Set
Origin: Designed by jeweler Lisa
Description: It’s tiny but beautiful, made by Lisa, a jewelry maker.
User Name: JoBos1
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Scripture nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: swimwithjen@gmail.com
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Pewter Nativity with wooden stable
Origin: California
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User Name: Springle1@yahoo.com
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Small wood nativity
Origin: Jordan
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User Name: aimeezmail2@gmail.com
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Small wood nativity
Origin: New Zealand
Description: A lovely native of Israel lives in Auckland, NZ and hand carves items from local wood.
User Name: aimeezmail2@gmail.com
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Small Wood nativity
Origin: Uganda
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User Name: aimeezmail2@gmail.com
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Small wood nativity
Origin: Israel
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User Name: aimeezmail2@gmail.com
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Large Nativity
Origin: American
Description: Tall about 12 to 16"
User Name: hollywilliams1831@gmail.com
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Kirkland Nativity
Origin: American
Description: This one has an inn.
User Name: hollywilliams1831@gmail.com
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Medium Nativity
Origin: American
Description: Medium sized nativity
User Name: hollywilliams1831@gmail.com
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Small Nativity
Origin: America
Description: This was the Deseret Book small nativity one year.
User Name: hollywilliams1831@gmail.com
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7 Piece Nativity - childlike
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Austrian wood cutout
Origin: Austria
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Hungarian Hand-painted Porcelain
Origin: Hungary
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Golden tea light mobile
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Matchbox miniature
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Mini Pewter Nativity set
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Porcelain with wood base
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Believe word
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Simple 7 piece nativity with wood
Origin: America
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Light up miniature inside stone
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User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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German Weihnachtspyramide
Origin: Germany
Description: My husband brought this home from Germany after his mission in 1996
User Name: kerrie_weitzel@msn.com
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Large white nativity
Origin: USA
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User Name: Clspencer
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Miniature Nativity
Origin: France
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User Name: Clspencer
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German Pyramid Nativity
Origin: Germany
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User Name: Clspencer
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Olive wood Nativity
Origin: Israel
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User Name: Clspencer
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Wooden olive tree nativity
Origin: Israel
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User Name: Jb9daines
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Cross Stitched Nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
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User Name: SusanJones
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Precious Moments Nativity
Origin: USA
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User Name: khrislee5
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Oh Come Let Us Adore Him
Origin: Deseret Book
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User Name: khrislee5
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Holy Family
Origin: Deseret Book
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User Name: khrislee5
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Peruvian stone nativity
Origin: Peru
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User Name: danielle.rasmussen@gmail.com
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basic porcelain nativity set
Origin: USA
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User Name: danielle.rasmussen@gmail.com
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Light blue and gold nativity set
Origin: Unknown
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User Name: MandyMortazavi
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Blue and white nativity set
Origin: Unknown
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User Name: MandyMortazavi
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White nativity set
Origin: Unknown
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User Name: MandyMortazavi
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Nadal porcelain matte crèche
Origin: Spain
Description: Bought it from Deseret Book, where it was listed as being from Israel.
User Name: LArroyo
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Walnut Nativity
Origin: Amana, Iowa
Description: We purchased this when we lived in Iowa specifically to display at the creche exhibit there because there weren't any locally produced nativities.
User Name: JLMerkling
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Three piece ceramic votive Nativity
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User Name: JLMerkling
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Children's wood block
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Description: Received as a gift our first Christmas in Colorado Springs.
User Name: JLMerkling
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Blown Glass nativity set
Origin: Italy
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Handmade paper mache
Origin: Local
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Red Granite nativity set
Origin: Mexico
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Nicaraguan nativity set
Origin: Nicaragua
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Miniature nativity set
Origin: Mexico
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Music box nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Wooden nativity
Origin: Czech Republic
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Japanese Nativity
Origin: Japan
Description: This is a Nativity designed and handmade by a Japanese artist. We purchased it in Tokyo when we lived there.
User Name: adrianne.richards
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Bedouin nativity
Origin: Jordan
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User Name: cw_bullock@yahoo.com
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Brazilian Nativity in a guord
Origin: Brazil
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User Name: Candee Read
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Hawaiian Nativity Leaves and shells
Origin: Hawaiian Polynesian Center
Description:
User Name: Candee Read
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Miniature wood carved set
Origin: USA
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User Name: Candee Read
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Black Holy Family Creche
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
Description: We served our senior mission in Atlanta, Georgia. When my friend saw this, it struck her heart. "I love this!" I bought it for her. She bought one for me. They represent fr
User Name: Candee Read
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Vintage Nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: Ecrockett
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Ecuadorian Nativity
Origin: Ecuador
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User Name: Ecrockett
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Traditional Nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: Ecrockett
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Traditional Nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: Ecrockett
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Plush Polish
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Description: This nativity was made by women in a women's shelter at Elim Christian Center in Poland. Their income helps them to become self-sufficient and to help other women escape abuse.
User Name: Katielin317
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Wooden Nativity
Origin: Guatemala
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User Name: Katielin317
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Soft Plush Nativity
Origin: United States
Description: It’s nice to have a Nativity set at home that small children can play with. Most Nativity sets children can’t touch due to being fragile. This one can be played with!
User Name: Esunnycannon@gmail.com
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Fontanini
Origin: Italy
Description: We began in 1991 with just the Holy Family, but later began to collect other pieces, especially those named for members in our own family.
User Name: frfeickert
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Seagull Book
Origin: Utah
Description: A gift from grandma who collected nativities. Each room in her home had at least one each Christmas season!
User Name: frfeickert
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Precious Moments
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User Name: frfeickert
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Snow globe with Holy Family
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User Name: frfeickert
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25 ornaments
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Description: If you would like, I can bring ornaments to decorate. (Not needed last year?)
User Name: frfeickert
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Nativity quilt
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Description: Designed by Fiona Feickert and sewn by Kris Moore, this piece is shared by our children as a special lap blanket during our Christmas advent devotionals.
User Name: frfeickert
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White and Gold resin
Origin: RC Willey/Utah
Description: A gift from grandma for our Christmas-time wedding.
User Name: frfeickert
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Loren's gift
Origin: North Pole
Description: Less than one week before Christmas, our daughter told Santa that all she wanted for Christmas was a nativity, which he miraculously delivered Christmas Eve.
User Name: frfeickert
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Bjorn Kohler wooden nativity
Origin: Erzgebirge region - Germany
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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Olive Wood nativity
Origin: Israel
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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3-piece cloth
Origin: handmade by a friend
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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Handmade African nativity
Origin: Cape Verde, Africa
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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9-piece white porcelain
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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Wooden African nativity
Origin: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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Simpich Holy Family
Origin: handcrafted in Colorado Springs
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User Name: shyrlenebrooks
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Traditional Nativity
Origin: United States
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User Name: kendraperigo@yahoo.com
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Needlepointed nativity set, artist Leona Cole
Origin: Diamondhead, MS, USA
Description: This set was made by hand by my stepmom and given to me several years ago.
User Name: christygearhart
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White Painted Nativity Set
Origin: Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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User Name: christygearhart
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Nativity set with stable
Origin: USA
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User Name: christygearhart
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Miniature nativity set
Origin: USA
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User Name: christygearhart
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Nativity
Origin: Peru
Description: 9 piece small nativity showing the traditional clothing of the peruvian people
User Name: Melindemann
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Nativity
Origin: Mexico
Description: 12 piece small nativity
User Name: Melindemann
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Olive wood Sculpture of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus
Origin: Germany/ Israel
Description: This was one of my favorite nativity pieces I saw on a trip to Germany at a Christmas Market. I love the simplicity and beauty of the sculpture.
User Name: Melindemann
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Hummel white nativity scene
Origin: Germany
Description: Was my Mom's from the 1960's
User Name: cmfarr
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Corn husk nativity
Origin: Africa
Description: A Grandma taught her Grandson the craft of corn husk dolls. When he emigrated to America he made these sets to buy passage for his family to join him in America.
User Name: cmfarr
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Fontanini Nativity
Origin: Italy
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User Name: chadandadri@aol.com
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Wooden Szopka
Origin: Poland
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User Name: Finmong
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Grass Nativity
Origin:
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User Name: Finmong
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Clay Creche
Origin: Italy
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User Name: Finmong
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Painted Clay Nativity
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User Name: Finmong
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Painted Clay Nativity
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User Name: Finmong
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Tanzania Gourd nativity
Origin: Tanzania Africa
Description: My husband and I climbed Kilimanjaro, the tallest peak in Africa in 2019. We fell in love with the people and love looking at this nativity every year as a reminder of our time the
User Name: sara.small73@gmail.com
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Ceramic Native American nativity
Origin: New York
Description: Growing up on Long Island, I found Arrowheads as I was playing in the dirt in our backyard. When I went to college, my mother got me this Native American nativity set to display.
User Name: sara.small73@gmail.com
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Cornhusk nativity
Origin: Africa
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User Name: Edie
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handmade clay
Origin: united states
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User Name: Edie
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hand puppets
Origin: united states
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User Name: Edie
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quilted wall hanging
Origin: united states
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User Name: Edie
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Felt Nativity Set
Origin: Handmade
Description: This nativity set was made by Ella Anderson in 2020.
User Name: janderson
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Italian ceramics Nativity Set
Origin: Caltagirone, Sicily
Description: This set was purchased from a little ceramic shop in Caltagirone Sicily. It was made and painted by the owner of the shop.
User Name: janderson
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Ceramic Flower Nativity
Origin: New York City, New York
Description: This was purchased from Riverside Church in New York City.
User Name: janderson
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Wooden Nativity Set
Origin: Logan, Utah
Description: This was our family's very first nativity set. It was made at a Relief Society homemaking event.
User Name: janderson
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Gourd Nativity
Origin: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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User Name: janderson
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Mexican Nativity
Origin: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Description: Purchased on a vacation in Mexico
User Name: janderson
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Wooden Peg People Nativity
Origin: Handmade
Description: Handmade by Taegan Anderson
User Name: janderson
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Metal Nativity
Origin: Unknown
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User Name: janderson
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Olive Wood
Origin: Jerusalem
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User Name: Bonnie
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White Porcelain Nativity
Origin: New York
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User Name: Bonnie
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Holy Family
Origin: Washington
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User Name: Bonnie
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Cornhusk Nativity
Origin: Mexico
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User Name: rogersclan8@comcast.net
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Slovakian Nativity
Origin: Slovakia
Description: Given to us by distant cousins in Slovakia.
User Name: jstoffey
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Nesting nativity
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User Name: jstoffey
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Modern 4 piece nativity
Origin: Strasbourg, France
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User Name: danielle.rasmussen@gmail.com
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Cornhusk nativity
Origin: Nairobi, Kenya
Description: The bishop of one of the wards in Kenya helped kids living in the streets. To teach them self-sufficiency he taught them to make nativity sets to sell, to help earn money.
User Name: danielle.rasmussen@gmail.com
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Polymer clay nativity
Origin: Meg Shaver Colorado Springs
Description: My friend Meg and I always enjoy going to the Creche together. Meg is an artist and one year she gifted me this nativity set that she made herself. It is a treasure to me.
User Name: carlsonfamily6@q.com
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Hummel Nativity Scene
Origin: Germany
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User Name: carlsonfamily6@q.com
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Nativity Scene by Kim Lawrence
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User Name: carlsonfamily6@q.com
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Ceramic Musical Nativity 1960
Origin: Montana
Description: Childhood Nativity
User Name: Wkchambers
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Ceramic Nativity 1987
Origin: Colorado
Description: Our first Nativity
User Name: Wkchambers
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Olive Wood Nativity
Origin: Jerusalem
Description: A gift from our niece who studied abroad
User Name: Wkchambers
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Gray and white Nativity
Origin: China
Description: Gift from DIL
User Name: Wkchambers
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Faux wood nativity with lamb and donkey
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: No story 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Sparkly grey nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: No story 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Terra Cotta nativity
Origin: Oregon
Description: My grandma started a nativity tradition for me a few years after I was married. She'd send me a new nativity every other year. This was the one that started this tradition.
User Name: miah_a
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White nativity
Origin: Alaska
Description: My mom gave this to me as a Christmas gift the first year I was married. This is my very first nativity set as an adult 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Faux stone Celtic nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: My husband and I both have Scottish ancestry and share a love for all things Celtic. I just wanted a nativity set to honor our heritage 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Desert backdrop nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: No story 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Porcelain nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: No story 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Little wooden Alaskan nativity
Origin: Alaska
Description: I grew up in Alaska, so the last time I visited, I bought a nativity just to be nostalgic 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Wood block nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: Found this at a craft fair and thought it was unique 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Wooden figure nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: My daughter made this when she was in Primary Activity Days, years ago 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Grey and white nesting nativity
Origin: Colorado Springs
Description: No story 🙂
User Name: miah_a
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Handmade Brazilian nativity
Origin: Brazil
Description:
User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Holy Family
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User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Holy Family
Origin: Jerusalem
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User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Encircled
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User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Silent Night
Origin: Jerusalem
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User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Handmade Clay Nativity
Origin: Brazil
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User Name: jonkym@gmail.com
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Snowy Nativity
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User Name: jjmahr@aol.com
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Noel
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User Name: jjmahr@aol.com
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Hispanic Nativity
Origin: New Mexico
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User Name: jjmahr@aol.com
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Paraguayan Nativity
Origin: Paraguay
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User Name: LexieBorg
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Antique paper nativity
Origin: Texas
Description: Lights up
User Name: susanromney
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Large snow globe nativity
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User Name: susanromney
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Standing Candle lit nativity
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User Name: susanromney
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Pipe Cleaner Nativity
Origin: Handmade by John Gutzman
Description: John is 12 and makes just about anything out of pipe cleaners. He made this nativity for his mother.
User Name: MannaGutz
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Wooden Nativity
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User Name: MannaGutz
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Hallmark Nativity
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User Name: MannaGutz
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Nativity Painted Plate
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User Name: MannaGutz
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