Daily Archives: January 1, 2018

This is a lovely book to have for the holidays. While it is intended for toddlers and young children (my grandkids are 2 and 4 years old respectively), it is also a fun way to display a cute Nativity no matter what your age is. Along with the nativity, there are several pages of activities and songs at the back of the book to help bring the Christmas story to life for kids.

The only problem I ran into was with the both the palm trees and the various people with feet. It took a little bit of effort to make the feet level one to the other for the people to stand straight and not topple over easily. The palm trees were a bit difficult to get to stand without falling over. In the end, I tilted them slightly backwards and that seemed to work. Both getting these to stand and pushing the pieces out are probably better left to an adult or older child as both take a delicate touch (even with a bit of care, I still managed to tear a slight bit of the design off of one of the bull’s legs.

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