Note: This short play is written for a children’s choir and is designed to be performed simply, with or without memorization. It is about a woman whose nativity set was ruined by a flood. All that is left is the stable and the empty manger along with some old scraps of cloth. She leaves these pieces out in sadness and walks away. The mice arrive and decide to help out by taking the parts of the characters we associate with the nativity set. Although the woman is frightened at first when she returns, she accepts the gift of the living nativity set from the mice and rewards them with a bag of seed corn.

Although some songs are indicated, the children can sing whatever songs they have already learned. Make sure that each person stands in front of a microphone and is heard clearly.

Characters…