Nativity Plays

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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Not just for schools: Our top ten church nativity plays

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Yes, we DO sell ‘church nativity plays’, as well as ‘school nativity plays’, and guess what? They’re the same thing! This may sound like an odd thing to say, but it’s become clear to us that not everyone understands this!

church nativity plays
Church Nativity Plays

It’s been another good year for us at Learn2soar Music, particularly in terms of sales. But to our disappointment we recently discovered that once again we’ve not sold as many nativities to churches this year as we have previously. Our research showed that more people than ever had googled for ‘church nativity plays’, or ‘Sunday school’ or ‘Christian’ nativity plays. However, very few of those searches converted into actual sales.

This is frustrating because the truth is, ALL of our Nativity plays are suitable for church use. In addition, all our non-nativity Christmas musicals and plays still feature the true message of Christmas in one way or another. (more…)

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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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Best Selling Nativity Play – Our First Nativity

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In the run up to Christmas we’re going to use our monthly blog posts to take a look at our best-selling Nativities. We’re starting with our best-selling nativity: ‘Our First Nativity‘.

Our First Nativity - 2024 New ArtworkPublished in 2011, Our First Nativity quickly rocketed to the top of our list of best sellers. Its total sales are over 50% higher than any other item we’ve ever sold. (Although ‘Our First Nativity TWO‘ is quickly gaining ground on it). So why is ‘Our First Nativity’ our best-selling nativity play?

Why so popular?

At the time it was written ‘Our First Nativity’ seemed to fill a real gap in the market. A basic nativity play that was genuinely suitable for the very youngest of children. Over the years we’ve heard more than a few pre-school establishments say to us, that while they’ve enjoyed the traditional favourites from some of our competitors like ‘It’s A Baby’, ‘Whoops-A-Daisy Angel’ and ‘The Wriggly Nativity’… there’s nothing that hits the mark like ‘Our First Nativity’. Indeed, some of the customer quotes at the foot of this blog come from pre-school workers who now ritualistically repeat this best-selling nativity play year after year after year.

What’s the Secret?

Firstly, young children find the songs extremely easy to learn, because each tune is based on a familiar nursery rhyme. Secondly, the two included scripts are ridiculously simple. And finally, all the added extras like PowerPoints and detailed staging advice, simply provide the icing on the cake.

But one of the most remarkable things about ‘Our First Nativity’ was the speed at which it came about. The writer of ‘Our First Nativity’ Stuart Ross told us…

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Very Pinteresting – Learn2soar Music is now on Pinterest

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Learn2soar Music now on Pinterest
We’re now on Pinterest

We’re delighted to announce that Learn2soar Music has now begun placing links to resources and ideas on Pinterest:

To start with we’ve created 4 boards for:

  • Leavers Assembly Ideas
  • Nativity Play Scripts/Songs/Costumes/Ideas
  • Mothers Day Ideas
  • Harvest Assembly Songs and Ideas

In addition to linking to our most popular products, each board also contains art/craft ideas, printable resources, costume / staging ideas, inspirational quotes / prayers and even one or two recipe suggestions! Over the coming months we hope to keep adding more and more. (more…)

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Learn2soar Music 2015 Publishing Plans

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Cool Carols - The Christmas MusicalLEARN2SOAR MUSIC 2015 NEWS: January 2015

This time last year we revealed plans for 7 new publications, but as the year progressed, we were sadly only able to publish 4 of them. This was because of the huge amount of time and manpower needed to completely overhaul our website. As the new year gets underway, we will still be spending the first few months on major changes to Learn2soar.co.uk, but later in the year we will hopefully be publishing the following exciting new titles…

Learn2soar Music 2015 Publishing Schedule
Learn2soar Music 2015 Publishing Schedule

COOL CAROLS: (Ages 7-11) Traditional carols with a new fun nativity script. This product will be a complete overhaul of our existing Nativity Play ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ (from 2004). All songs are being edited / re-mastered / re-recorded, along with a few new songs and new scripts. Expected September 2015.

NATIVITY PLAY IN ONE DAY: (Ages 5-11) The follow-up to our popular ‘Christmas Play In One Day’. The ultimate time-saver for busy nativity play organisers everywhere. Six simple songs with a simple nativity script enabling you to easily stage a nativity show in just a few hours. Expected late 2015.

Disclaimer: All of the above planned Learn2soar Music 2015 products are scheduled for release during 2015. However, there is no guarantee that any of them will be released within this time frame.

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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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Christmas Plays in the Summer – My Strange World

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Our sales of Christmas plays get earlier each year. This blog discusses the fact that lots of teachers like to be extremely well prepared!

Christmas plays in the summerIt’s the 1st of August 2014 and over the last week the sun has been smiling and I’ve been baking on a trip to London. Next week, we’re going on an even hotter holiday to the beautiful island of Santorini in Greece… yet through it all, at the back of my mind, I can’t stop thinking about Christmas plays! Welcome to my weird mixed-up world!

I can tell it’s the start of the summer holidays when the first orders for Christmas plays start to come in. Yes, believe it or not, there are a lot of teachers out there, who in their first week of the summer holidays are thinking about where and how they’re going to buy their Christmas plays. I know, some of you are thinking that’s mad, but I call it being amazingly well prepared!

Just in the last week we’ve had good sales for early years Christmas plays, particularly our No. 1 best seller ‘Our First Nativity‘ and our most recent production ‘What A Star‘.

And it’s not just the overly well-prepared teachers thinking about festive productions… at this time of year I can’t help but be consumed by the thought of writing new Christmas plays. We have recording days set for a few weeks’ time to record my new material, so whilst sunbathing on the beaches of Santorini, I’ll hopefully be putting the finishing touches to some of my newest creations, including ‘Our First Nativity 2’. Hopefully, I’ll be able to share more information in the next month. (more…)

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Publishing Plans for 2014

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Our First Spring
Our First Spring – Coming Soon

LEARN2SOAR NEWS: December 2013

Exciting NEW products planned for the new year…

We have several new CDs/Downloads in the pipeline:

1. OUR FIRST SPRING: Springtime songs, scripts and resources for Early Years and Infants (Ages 2-7). Expected Jan/Feb.

2. THE DONKEYS TALE: A short simple musical for Easter, telling the story of the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem. (Ages 7-11). Expected Jan/Feb.

3. ZOOMING ON: A new primary school leavers assembly CD. (Ages 10-11). Expected May/June.

4. OUR FIRST NATIVITY 2: A second volume of our best selling product ever. (Ages 2-5). Expected Sept/Oct.

Disclaimer: All of the above mentioned products are planned for release during 2014. However, there is no guarantee that any of them will be released within this time frame. (more…)

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Christmas Around The World

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Christmas Around The World The Real Saint Nick Christmas Play
Christmas Around The World The Real Saint Nick Christmas Play

LEARN2SOAR NEWS: October 2013

‘The Real Saint Nick’, Re-branded as ‘Christmas Around The World’

One of our most popular products has just had a makeover! ‘The Real Saint Nick’ has been re-branded with a new look and a new title. It’s now ‘Christmas Around The World: The Real Saint Nick‘. The contents of the product are more or less the same, but as a response to customer requests, we’ve renamed and re-branded this product to make the subject of the production much clearer.  Here’s what a few teachers have had to say about it:

So good: “Every year we buy a learn2soar Christmas play with a pack of rehearsal CDs. We did ‘The Real Saint Nick’ two years ago. The songs and scripts are SO GOOD! And with all the extra free stuff that’s included it’s such great value. Great service too. Thank you.

Amazing: “The Real Saint nick is an amazing play! We did it last year and the parents and children just loved it! I really would recommend it to anyone.”

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What A Star!

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What A Star - Nativity Play
What A Star

LEARN2SOAR NEWS: September 2013

NEW: ‘What A Star’ – Nativity Play for Ages 3-7

What A Star Nativity Play
What A Star Nativity Play

Out now, What a Star tells the enchanting story of Leo the little star who is shy and not very good at shining. But despite his size, Leo is still given a really important job to do, over a big town called Bethlehem! Can he pull it off? What a Star is suitable for ages 3-7. It contains two different editable, rhyming scripts. A fun play script with dozens of parts and a simple narrators’ parts only script for younger children. With 9 catchy, easy-to-learn songs, this is sure to become a favourite in many Early Years / Infant departments around the world.

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HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY LEARN2SOAR!!!

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LEARN2SOAR NEWS: July 2013

Looking back over 10 amazing years!

It’s party time here at Learn2soar Music as we celebrate our 10th birthday! But where on earth have the last 10 years gone? Our managing director Stuart Ross says:

“When I think back to the summer of 2003 and what little we started learn2soar with, it’s a miracle that we have grown so much. My secondment as a music advisor had come to an end and I had a choice to either go back to my old job of being a primary school teacher (which I loved doing) or starting a new business producing music for schools. The business idea won and the rest is history… well sort of.

It’s a miracle we got through those first few years. At that time my wife was between jobs herself and we had 2 young children. We put the mortgage on hold, tightened our belts, prayed a lot and just scraped by! Only having five titles on sale at the time didn’t help and it was only by providing a high volume of school workshops, along with a grant from the Arts Council, which helped us to live from day to day.

As I was gradually able to produce more and more titles each year, the sales grew and the real turning point came in 2007 when I produced…C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas For JUNIORS Nativity Play

 

‘C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S Spells Christmas For Juniors’.

… The glowing feedback from schools was like nothing we’d ever seen before. It was simply overwhelming and then the icing on the cake was when the BBC broadcast a large section of it over the Christmas holidays. The following year, sales went through the roof and have been growing steadily ever since. One thing we’re particularly proud of is that we’ve never used a bank loan or overdraft. We only ever spend what we take in, never go into debt and give regularly to charity. It’s not the way most businesses work, but it’s really worked well for us!

We estimate that we’ve now supplied music to around 40% of the UK and Ireland’s schools and we regularly sell to customers in about 40 countries around the world. Hopefully over the next 10 years we can see Learn2soar… soar even higher!”

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Away WITH The Manger

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LEARN2SOAR NEWS: November 2012

NEW: ‘Away WITH The Manger’ For ages 7-11

Away WITH The Manger Christmas Nativity Play
Away WITH The Manger Christmas Nativity Play

Get ready for the craziest Christmas play you’ve ever seen. Your audience will be in stitches! This new Christmas play tells the funny story of two bungling burglars who are on the run with a bag of stolen jewels. The jewels are hidden in the local school’s nativity manger and now the comical crooks want them back! As the pupils prepare for their nativity, mayhem ensues, but one thing is clear… crime doesn’t pay!

The main writer of ‘Away WITH The Manger’, Stuart Ross says, “It’s been five years since my young daughter Corinne first came up with the idea for ‘Away WITH The Manger‘. After a lot of hard work from a lot of people, it’s finally here. And out of all the many plays I’ve written over the years, this is already my favourite! The children who sung on the CD also had more fun with it than any other they’ve done, as you’ll hear from their amazing vocal performances. I know that you will absolutely love it too!”

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Big Bad Ben Of Bethlehem

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LEARN2SOAR NEWS: November 2011

NEW: ‘Big Bad Ben Of Bethlehem’

Big Bad Ben Of Bethlehem: Christmas Musical Nativity PlaySure to get audiences giggling, ‘Big Bad Ben Of Bethlehem’ is a fun-filled nativity play written in the style of ‘Horrid Henry’. Poor Mr & Mrs Innkeeper have a problem! Their son Ben, is a bit of a handful. Who on earth would want to stay at Bethlehem’s inn while Big Bad Ben is causing mischief and mayhem with his practical jokes? Fortunately, help is on hand through a strange visitor… Super-Nanny Gabriel will help Ben to become better behaved and get him to clean up the inn, just in case any shepherds or wise men might come to visit! Suitable for most age ranges, this new nativity play features 10 easy-to-learn, fun songs plus all the backing music so there’s no need for a pianist. It also comes with a time-saving, editable script, PowerPoint scenery, PowerPoint song words, sheet music and more. To find out more about Big Bad Ben, click here.

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