Help! Need Ward Activity Ideas

[SueKittel]

Originally Posted by ToniR

is there a way to leave a private message for your email address. I have no idea how to post it on this forum - its a few pages long.

Toni, I would love a copy of your Night in Bethlehem script.
sue
sue@spibr.org

[SueKittel]

Originally Posted by daizymae

We did a "Night at Bethlehem" themed Christmas party in our ward a couple of years ago. Everyone dressed up and we decorated the cultural hall like Bethlehem and acted out the Nativity. For the kids, we had the bishopric dressed like the 3 wisemen to give out gifts since we didn't feel like it would be in keeping with the tone we wanted to set to have Santa Claus show up. It was a lot of work, but turned out wonderfully and everybody had a great time. I think I still have Nativity scripts and all the decoration ideas saved somewhere....if you're interested, I'll dig them up!

Can you send my your notes from your activity "Night in Bethlehem"? I see you post was from 2005, so hopefully you still have it saved.
sue
sue@spibr.org

[john doe]

Good luck with that. ToniR has not logged onto the site since last December.

[john doe]

And Daizymae hasn't been here since February 2006.

[ToniR]

Hi Sue,
I usually only come to the forum when I receive an email. I did not write the script I purchased it in a book for about $8. Last year this link worked- http://www.brightimpressions.com/pro...products_id=68 But now it doesn't. The script for the Journey to Bethlehem is found in the Primary Activity Days volume 1 by Bright Impressions.
Maybe the company Bright Impressions will let you purchase just the Journey to Bethlehem and download it to you. I'm not sure you are interested in our details but I copied/pasted the email I sent last year to the cast - here it is.

Thank you to everyone for helping with our ward Christmas party. For those who can make it, we are meeting at the church for a quick 30-40 minute run through this Thursday, December 4th at 8:00 p.m.

Everyone is responsible for their own costumes except the 3 wise men (we are borrowing the stake costumes). For those who are singing, please provide your own accompanist or cd music and player. It will probably be best if you only sing one verse of your song. There will be no piano available for the shepherds (we are moving the primary piano to the cultural hall). The rooms/areas where you will be performing -

Mary/Joseph - cultural hall
King Herod - west entrance
Innkeeper - east entrance
Shepherds - primary room
Angels - young womens room
3 wise men - relief society room

You will perform after dinner on Saturday evening (probably around 7:00). The ward members/guests will be divided into 6 groups and each group will journey to see all of you. So you will perform 6 times - bring a water bottle! If you have any questions, please let me know. Please email me to let me know you received this.

Thanks to all of you for helping out. I'm excited to join you on our Journey to Bethlehem....

Suggestions -

Do this with another ward. We shared decorations and the other ward met Friday night and we left everything up and we met Saturday night. It worked great.
We strung white christmas lights across the cultural hall to represent the night sky. Ward members brought blankets to sit on and canned food to pay their taxes. We donated the food to the food bank. Our decorations were very nice with 2 wards helping.
Do you have any questions I could help you with? I'm willing to answer any questions or help in any way. Good luck to you
Toni

[SueKittel]

Thanks Toni. We have decided to wait to do this next year and involve the other wards to share decorations. You input was very helpful.
Sue