How to make a Christmas Crib - Presepio

The Making of a Christmas Crib Malta 2011

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[MarcoSpiteri]

Hi Daryl thanks for your comments. You certainly need to get some sheep and one or two sheperds. Yes a woman washing clothes or a statue holding a bucket next to the water fountain..a shop keeper and a Baker for the Bakery...three wise men are important...the rest I leave to your imagination...every character is nice to have...in Malta for example we have a figure looking downwards from the top of the nativity cave which I have not included in this crib...hope this is useful information to you

[MarcoSpiteri]

Yes go ahead no problem..::))

[MarcoSpiteri]

For the benefit of those looking through this clip and wanting to construct a Christmas Crib.

Basically the crib is made out of jablo pieces fixed together with pva glue and toothpicks and formed by hand to any shape required. The building is done by cutting small blocks of jablo in the form of small bricks and building as we did with lego blocks.

After having finished the shaping of the Jablo for rock and the building preapre a mixture of PVA glue, plaster powder (english plaster)

[MarcoSpiteri]

and saw dust and mix with water until you have a creamy liquid. You will need paper napkins. Place a paper napkin on any area you want to plaster and dab with a small paint brush. Cover all the crib in this way. When dried it will give you a good hard finish. Paint to your liking however do not use dark colours

[MarcoSpiteri]

The crib is made out of Jablo for construction....PVA glue and plaster

[silk14u]

Beautiful Presepio! Could you tell me where I can get the figurines from please? That would really help!

[MarcoSpiteri]

Grazzi Habib

[daryl12375]

Hi Marco could you please help me in giving some tip or idea of how can I prepare or make such statues like the baker or the women filling water because in India you dont get such kind of statues apart from the nativity set.

It would be very helpful from you.

Thanks.

[daryl12375]

hey hi marco, I really loved your design of this christmas crib and would like to congragulate you for that. I have started making crib for this year I need your hlp on how to put extra statues apart from the nativity statues. Could you please help me, it would be great from your side like the shopkeeper or lady carrying water etc.

[elroydsilva123]

WOW! Really Cool! Can I borrow your design for this Christmas? :-)