This is a Presepe that I made with my father this year. We always make one for Christmas. It took us more than a week, We used paper -maché , cork and a special kind of moss. The presepe is about 2m long but we can fold it in half and keep it for next year.
There are lots of different traditional characters and interesting things in it....see if you can find some of them.....
a pottery wheel and a potter
a ricotta cheese maker
a flour mill
a water wheel
Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus
a pizza maker
a fish monger
a barrel maker
a carpenter
a tavern
a fisherman
a washer woman
a butcher
I hope you like it!
by Ilaria Pane
http://youtu.be/8sNLHY8Txqc
Note: St Francis of Assisi first started "Nativity Scenes", he used live animals. Now it is a tradtion that every family has a Nativity Scene in their house at Christmas time. We usually start making ours around the 8th December but we only put Baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas Eve. We use figures made of terracotta and my father uses special motors to make things move. It's a lot of fun!
