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Short Nativity Plays – Top 10

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Short on time but still want a show that shines? Our short nativity plays are designed for exactly that. Flexible scripts, catchy songs, and running times starting at 8 minutes mean you can put on a performance that’s simple to rehearse yet full of festive sparkle. Here are the 10 best options to make your Christmas production a success.

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Short Nativity Plays

Flexibility is key

No two casts are the same, so flexibility matters. That’s why almost all of our short nativity plays come with multiple script variations — narrated or acted — and every script is editable. Whether you need to shorten scenes, skip songs, or tailor lines for your cast, it’s easy to create the perfect fit. The running times listed here reflect the quickest, most streamlined versions.

Short Nativity Plays or Quick Rehearsal Nativities?

Short doesn’t just mean fewer minutes on stage — it means fewer hours in rehearsal. That’s why this list of our short nativity plays focuses on the ones that are the fastest to rehearse, helping teachers deliver a polished performance without the stress of endless practice sessions.

Top 10 Short Nativity Plays

Here’s our countdown of the top 10 short nativity plays, starting with the very shortest:

1. Christmas Play In ONE Day (Also known as ‘The Santa Trap’)

  • Minimum Running Time = 8 minutes
  • Minimum Rehearsal Time = 1 day
  • Age Range = 6 to 11
  • Cast Size = 17 to 200+
Christmas Play In One Day
Christmas Play In One Day

DESCRIPTION: The ultimate time-saver for busy teachers! This short nativity play is fun, simple, and packed with resources to give you everything you need for an instant performance. The included playscript, ‘The Santa Trap’, is a humorous story set on Christmas Eve. Santa secretly visits a children’s hospital ward to fill stockings, but the children catch him and won’t let him leave until he grants their wishes! Cue the elves and reindeer, who put on a lively ‘A-Z of Christmas’ show that audiences love. An optional nativity scene is also included.
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Cool Carols – New Christmas Carol based nativity play musical

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Cool Carols – Released 1st Nov 2019 – Ages 7 to 11 – Two traditional rhyming nativity play scripts, mixed with 9 carols, all with a modern sound.

What’s NEW?
Cool Carols - Nativity Play
Cool Carols – Nativity Play

‘Cool Carols’ is a fast, flexible, nativity play musical. Two traditional rhyming nativity scripts (one a play script, one a narrated script), have been mixed with nine traditional carols and two new songs, all of which have a 21st century sound. This superb combination allows you to easily produce the perfect nativity production that will be a hit with kids and parents. It comes with vocal tracks sung by an eleven-year-old, backing tracks, editable scripts, PowerPoint scenery, PowerPoint song words, sheet music, staging advice and more.

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Christmas Around The World – New Update

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Another of our festive best-sellers has had a major upgrade. ‘Christmas Around The World – The Real Saint Nick’ for ages 5-11. Updated 11/10/2019

What’s Changed?
Christmas Around The World - The Real Saint Nick
Christmas Around The World – The Real Saint Nick

Our Christmas musical: ‘Christmas Around The World’ has changed a lot. Every audio track has been lovingly remixed and remastered. The final song now has an extra new verse. Both scripts have been slightly rewritten. Both are now longer, whilst most individual lines have been shortened, making them easier for children to learn. The Production Notes document has been altered with even more staging advice, extra song ideas, new ways to involve songs from even more countries, and alternative scene suggestions. The PowerPoint Scenery file has all new images. Other PowerPoints, songsheet and sheet music have all been reformatted.

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C-H-R... Spells Christmas... Spells Success!

C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas – Spells Success

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Last month we looked at our all-time number one best-selling item: ‘Our First Nativity‘. But what’s number 2 and number 3 on the list? The answer to both questions is ‘C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas’.

Number two on the list is C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas for Infants (ages 3 to 7). Then at number three it’s C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas for Juniors (ages 7 to 11+).

C-H-R… Spells Christmas – Infant Version
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas For INFANTS Nativity Play
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas For INFANTS Nativity Play

The Infant version was one of Learn2soar Music’s first publications, written in 2003. From then, until 2011’s ‘Our First Nativity’ was published, it was consistently our best-selling item. In a similar way to ‘Our First Nativity’, the genius of ‘C-H-R… Spells Christmas’ is in its utter simplicity. The performance consists of little more than nine different, simple, catchy songs, for the nine letters that spell the word ‘Christmas’, that all come together to tell the biblical Nativity story. (more…)

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What A Star Nativity Play: How your children can shine like stars!

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‘What A Star’ is a groundbreaking nativity play designed to boost your children’s self-image. This blog looks at how and why it was made.

Early in 2013 I had an idea for a new nativity play for young children. The premise was simple: a little star who wasn’t very good at shining would be chosen by God to become the brightest star of all, shining over Bethlehem, guiding the wise men to visit the newborn baby Jesus.
What A Star - How your children can shine like stars
I suggested the idea to my teenage daughter, who ran with it. Within a few days she had enterprisingly produced the first draft of what would become: ‘What A Star!’ A nativity play for ages 3-7. In her script, my daughter had introduced the idea of the star going to ‘star-school’, but being the worst in the class at everything, getting teased by other ‘bigger, better stars’ and feeling unhappy at being so small and shy. By the end of the play of course, Leo the little star becomes the biggest, brightest, most important star of all, as he shines over Bethlehem’s stable.

All good and well, but what surprised me most was that my daughter had chosen to give this star a name… Leo! Having written dozens of nativity plays over the years, my first instinct was to change the name or remove it altogether. But then I thought about the significance of this tiny name…

Straight away, I should state that I never read horoscopes, or take any interest in star signs or the zodiac, but I do know that because my birthday is in late July, my star sign is ‘Leo’. Therefore, as I read the first draft of the script, I immediately felt a connection to this little star, who didn’t feel as good as all the larger, older stars in his class.

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BRAND NEW: Our First Nativity 2

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Due to popular demand, we’ve created a follow-up to our biggest seller: ‘Our First Nativity 2’ is out now…

Our First Nativity 2
Our First Nativity TWO

Back in August 2010 I had one of my better ideas, to create the simplest nativity play possible for very young children, calling it ‘Our First Nativity’. A few months later it went on sale, and we were astounded by the response. It was soon outselling all our other products combined and has now gone on to become our all-time best-selling product by a long way.

It has since spawned a whole host of related early years publications, ‘Our First Harvest’, ‘Our First Easter Play’, ‘Our First Easter Show’, ‘Our First Spring’, ‘Our First Mother’s Day’ and ‘Our First Christmas Play’, all of which have done well in their own right. I had planned to give the ‘Our First’ range a bit of a break, but then last year I had a few very interesting phone conversations…  Over the course of a two-week period, I spoke to several customers who all said the same thing, that they had bought ‘Our First Nativity’ when it had first been released and that they loved it SOOOO much that they had decided to re-use it again and again and again, every year without fail! Wow! (more…)

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What A Star!

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LEARN2SOAR NEWS: September 2013 NEW: 'What A Star' - Nativity Play for Ages 3-7 Out now, What a Star tells the enchanting story of Leo the little star who is shy…

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