Anyone else been to their kid's nativity play yet?

Anyone else been to their kid's nativity play yet?

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diddyman

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3,646 posts

248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Just returned from my kids' school nativity plays.

Youngest was a and the oldest a


No doubt nativity plays will soon be banned in case we offend someone's sensibilities.

lunarscope

2,895 posts

249 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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My three-year-old's is on Monday.
He'll be a shepherd.
When I asked him if he has any lines to say, he replied with "No, I just have to be very patient".

diddyman

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248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Does he get to say "baaaaaaaa"?!!!

JonRB

76,122 posts

279 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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I love the bit in "Love Actually" where one of the kids is going to be an octopus in the school nativity.

Mum says something to the fact that she didn't know there was an octopus in the original nativity, to which the daughter replies (typical kid)
"Yeah, like, duhhh!"

lunarscope

2,895 posts

249 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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diddyman said:
Does he get to say "baaaaaaaa"?!!!

Well, as he's Welsh he is genetically advantaged for sheep handling.

diddyman

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248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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lunarscope said:
Well, as he's Welsh he is genetically advantaged for sheep handling.

A perfect choice then! As my oldest is from another planet, a heavenly body seemed appropriate for her too!

TeamD

4,978 posts

239 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Sadly, I work away from my kids all week so I won't get to see my eldest son (5 yrs) in his nativity play. Maybe the wife can get a licence to video it for me, you know what I mean.

On a lighter note, when speaking to another Dad last weekend, he said he'd asked his daughter what part she was playing in the nativity play. She had explained that she was a one of the wise people (PC BS) and that her line was "I bring a gift of frankenstein". Out of the mouths of babes eh?

Sparks

1,217 posts

286 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Went to see my 4 year old on Tuesday.

It wasn't a nativity, but based around how different countries celebrate Christmas. It was quite good.

They also asked parents if they objected to cameras (video included). No one did, so many people were taking pictures and videoing it.

Sparks

diddyman

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248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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TeamD said:

Sadly, I work away from my kids all week so I won't get to see my eldest son (5 yrs) in his nativity play. Maybe the wife can get a licence to video it for me, you know what I mean.

On a lighter note, when speaking to another Dad last weekend, he said he'd asked his daughter what part she was playing in the nativity play. She had explained that she was a one of the wise people (PC BS) and that her line was "I bring a gift of frankenstein". Out of the mouths of babes eh?


Sorry to hear you can't make your kid's nativity, TeamD. That's a bummer. We had no problem videoing or photographing; it was just asked that people be sensible with the results, and not stick them on the www. Seems a shame that one has to be asked these things nowadays!

Wise people... WTF is the world coming too!!!



JonRB

76,122 posts

279 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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On our son's last school play, the headmistress stood up and announced very apologetically that she had recently learned that the copyright owners of the play they were about to perform explicitly forbade the play to be recorded under threat of legal action for copyright infringement!

Didn't stop some of the mums and dad's from videoing the play with their camcorders' lenses poking out of coats on laps etc.

(We didn't - I'd forgotten the camera, as usual. Ooops)

diddyman

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248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!

jacko lah

3,297 posts

256 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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I've been to Perscussion Concert (African Drums)(2 hours) , Brass Concert (2.5 Hours) , Snow white and 7 bastard dwarves (3 hours), Sleeping Beauty (10mins) and next week it is the nativity play for my youngest. Oh and apparently I'm going to church on the sunday before Christmas. Strange I thought I'd found God and he lives in my engine bay (General Motors 1.8e 8V finest GOD-like engine)

Liszt

4,330 posts

277 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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diddyman said:
Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!



As my parents live in France, we post a video regularly.


We have just had my daughter's play. It was great! 6 gurning 3 year old shepherds at the front. Superb!

diddyman

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248 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Liszt said:

diddyman said:
Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!


As my parents live in France, we post a video regularly.

We have just had my daughter's play. It was great! 6 gurning 3 year old shepherds at the front. Superb!

I can understand that! Gurning sheep we did not have. Regular sheep, yes, some tigers (?) and lots of asses!

wedge girl

4,688 posts

246 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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This year my yougest will be staring as a Sheep, and no expense has been spared on the costume just because it's a minor role

srebbe64

13,021 posts

244 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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One of my kids truned down the offer of being the inn-keepers wife in order to be an 'elf'. Because the elves wear red, was her rationale!

A few years ago one of my kids was a "chinese dancer". I said the nativity must have been from one of the modern 'interpretive' bibles.

Flat in Fifth

45,552 posts

258 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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Sometimes schools just don't use common sense.

Christingle service.

Kids all go out to the front to receive

an orange into which several cocktail sticks loaded with dolly mixture / allsorts sweets. Stuck in the top of the orange a lighted candle.

Imagine 3 to 7 year old kids let loose in close proximity to sweets and lighted candles. FFS!!!

Miracle only one kids hair got singed.

Fortunately Miss FiF is too old for this now, but the memorable moment in the nativity video when she played Mary was when the whole cast was totally absorbed by one of the infant class barfing on the front row of the audience. Not a pretty sight.....

nick_f

10,301 posts

253 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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We had two owls and a rabbit, starring in 'The Little Christmas Tree'.

One of the owls didn't want to wear his wings, but the rabbit remembered her line and the dance routine that went with it.

No rules about photos or videos - so we have the opposite problem, which is that you can't see the play for all the parents standing up and filming it...

Mrs Fish

30,018 posts

265 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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I can't wait till I can do this, I just hope its allowed in 3 or 4 years time

marcos maniac

3,148 posts

268 months

Friday 10th December 2004
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lunarscope said:
My three-year-old's is on Monday.
He'll be a shepherd.


My 4 year old's is Tuesday
he's a shepherd too